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🆃🅾︎🅿︎ 🆃🅴🅽 ʙᴀᴛᴛᴇʀʏ-ғʀᴇᴇ ɢɪғᴛs ᴡᴇ'ᴠᴇ ʟᴏᴠᴇᴅ... (ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴇ ʜᴏᴘᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴛᴏᴏ!)
These are in no way ranked in any particular order, but I need to say that all of them have been a HUGE item of play and creativity in...
katiedailey55
Dec 9, 20235 min read


𝐇𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 тԻḙᾰṧṳԻḙ 𝐁𝐚𝐠𝐬
We have found with our kids, that hiking and walking goes a lot more smoothly when we set a purpose. They become so interested in "the...
katiedailey55
Dec 6, 20231 min read


ɭ๏๏รє ᎮคгՇร Nature Christmas Tree
We came up with this on a whim while hiking one December day! Before beginning our walk/hike we set a purpose. we explained to our...
katiedailey55
Dec 4, 20231 min read


𝓝𝓾𝓽𝓬𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓴𝓮𝓻 Sensory Play
My kiddos LOVE watching "The Nutcracker Sweet" on Amazon Prime Video. It is a cute animated version of "The Nutcracker" and involves the...
katiedailey55
Dec 3, 20231 min read


🅢🅔🅝🅢🅞🅡🅨 ⓖⓨⓜ
We lucked out when we purchased this home and the garage was carpeted! Immediately we knew that we'd be making an extra-fun space out of...
katiedailey55
Nov 30, 20231 min read


🅛🅞🅞🅢🅔 🅟🅐🅡🅣🅢 🅟🅛🅐🅨🅓🅞🅤🅖🅗 🅣🅤🅡🅚🅔🅨
Gather all of your loose parts (small items you might call knickknacks) and playdough! Make a ball or smoosh it flat to create your Turkey body. I took bingo chips and drew sharpie eyeballs on them to make the turkey's eyes, but you can literally use anything! We used some left-over wiki stix as the beak, but again-- you can use anything! Buying a big bag of crafting feathers was the best choice for the month of November, as we were able to use the feathers over and over for
katiedailey55
Nov 16, 20231 min read


🅃🅄🅁🄺🄴🅈 🄵🄴🄰🅃🄷🄴🅁 🄵🅄🄽
Sometimes all you need are some feathers to have some fun! I've had this pasta strainer for years now and originally colored some of the outer holes with permanent marker. We use it throughout the year to feed pipe cleaners through for color matching, identification, and fine motor practice. Who is to say you can't do the same thing with colored crafting feathers? I made two eyeballs and an orange beak from paper and taped them on the front of our strainer to make our Turkey.
katiedailey55
Nov 14, 20231 min read


𝕋ℍ𝔸ℕ𝕂𝔽𝕌𝕃 ℙ𝕌𝕄ℙ𝕂𝕀ℕ
A new tradition this year! We started a "Thankful Pumpkin" after my sister gave us this awesome idea last year! It's a perfect activity...
katiedailey55
Nov 13, 20231 min read


N̠A̠T̠U̠R̠E̠ F̠E̠A̠S̠T̠
🌲🍁🌿🍂 We've been reading a lot of Pilgrim and Native American books here these past few weeks! Reading books and watching shows about...
katiedailey55
Nov 12, 20231 min read


TᑌᖇKᗴY ᕼᗩIᖇᑕᑌT
Here's a quick, fun way to work on coloring, gluing and cutting during November for Thanksgiving! Start with a paper plate and some markers, crayons or paint markers (our favorite)! Have your kiddo design a face for his or her Turkey. Then, have them glue any color, design or pattern of crafting feathers on the back, top-half of the plate. Once the feathers are dry and sturdy, have your kiddo use scissors to give his or her Turkey a haircut! They can trim a little or a lot...
katiedailey55
Nov 9, 20231 min read


𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚟𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝙴𝚡𝚙𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜
When warm weather is winding down and fall is creeping in, vegetables start to stop growing and gardens start to become bare. This is the...
katiedailey55
Nov 7, 20231 min read


🅓🅞🅣 🅣🅤🅡🅚🅔🅨
Grab your extra paper plates and get some dot stickers! This is one of the ᴇᴀsɪᴇsᴛ Turkey projects ever! My kiddos really enjoyed making their own, unique Turkey face! Then, I added the multi-colored feathers. An older kiddo could easily cut these out and glue, tape or staple them on to the plate. Once the head and feathers were on, I had my little people peel their own sheet of colored dot stickers and stick them on the corresponding feather! We even chose a number of sticke
katiedailey55
Nov 6, 20231 min read


𝐀 𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐀𝐋𝐋... 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐔𝐍!
It is November! Fall is in it's prime! This adorable book, A Fall Ball For All, by Jamie A. Swenson pairs so well with our November...
katiedailey55
Nov 5, 20231 min read


ⒽⒶⓁⓁⓄⓌⒺⒺⓃ ⒷⓄⓍ
This is a super simple Amazon box Halloween fine motor play activity!! The spiders/web side has colored golf tees to accompany— very great for color matching/identification and fine motor and coordination! Another side has kiddos feeding the Jack-o-lantern some applesauce lids and/or pompoms! This is amazing for fine motor building as well! Then we have the Frankenstein side. The Frankie “eats” playing cards! Around here, my preschoolers like to identify the number or color
katiedailey55
Nov 2, 20231 min read
🅿︎🆄🅼🅿︎🅺🅸🅽 🅿︎🅻🅰︎🆈
Pumpkin seeds rock! We’ve had this same batch for two seasons now. We add and alter it continuously to include play pumpkins, color...
katiedailey55
Oct 9, 20231 min read


CORN PLAY!
This is hands-down one of our favorite seasons of the year. There are so many options for sensory play and creativity! One of our...
katiedailey55
Oct 1, 20231 min read


HEADQUARTERS PLAY SPACE
We revamped our under deck space to create a ℍ𝔼𝔸𝔻ℚ𝕌𝔸ℝ𝕋𝔼ℝ𝕊 for the boys! They've been all about playing "nature guys ", "army men...
katiedailey55
Sep 22, 20231 min read


EVERYTHING AUTUMN SENSORY TABLE
E҉V҉E҉R҉Y҉T҉H҉I҉N҉G҉ 🍁 A҉U҉T҉U҉M҉N҉ Sensory Table! 🐿️🍁🌰 Mix some pretend fall leaves, play acorns, tiny squirrels, orange and yellow...
katiedailey55
Sep 21, 20231 min read


SEPTEMBER APPLE SENSORY TABLE
September screams คρρɭεร! 🍎🍏 From apple picking, to apple sorting, to taking favorite apple surveys at school and making applesauce and...
katiedailey55
Sep 12, 20231 min read


LET’S THROW A FIREFIGHTER PARTY!
This party was so much fun! These are actually pictures from two different parties… four years apart. My current four year-old wanted a...
katiedailey55
Sep 1, 20232 min read
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