Raising children in love and faith
We love playing with sensory bins but setting up a sensory tray is a nice change, especially when it’s with one of our favorite sensory bases, salt, like with this Purim Salt Tray! Read your favorite Purim book and add whatever Purim symbols you have around the house and you have a really fun, meaningful …
We love the super easy to make, customize, set up and do poke a dots that my son’s preschool teacher introduced to us and the Hamantaschen Poke the Dots activity we did today was absolutely perfect! I loved watching that look of concentration and focus on his face and seeing how easily it now is …
With Purim less than a month away, we set up our Purim Shelfie and started reading our favorite books, engaging in some meaningful activities, and having a really fun time while learning! Setting up a Purim Shelfie is super easy, and can totally be with whatever Purim items you already have on hand. You can …
It’s always been important for me to engage my kids in understanding the concept of categorizing the foods we eat during a Tu B’Shevat seder so I was excited to put together this Tu B’Shevat Interactive Seder Plate Activity for us to enjoy this year (and in the future!). Not only did the kids have fun painting …
I love creating simple activities with big developmental impacts and this Tu B’Shevat Grape Bead Threading activity totally fit: such a simple concept and set up that allowed for wonderful developmental skills practices. I initially set up this activity for my preschooler, but the toddler and the second grader also joined and had a fun …
My preschooler has recently shown a big interest in numbers and counting so I thought a wonderful Tu B’Shevat inspired counting activity would be to create a Tu B’Shevat Nature Spindle Box. We are completely play-based over here but if a child shows an interest in something, there is always a way to make it …
To prepare for all things Tu B’Shevat, we created our Tu B’Shevat Shelfie filled with books, activities and toys related to the holiday. Can you guess how each object connects to the birthday of the trees? We printed out our Tu B’Shevat Reading Challenge Bingo and brought out our Tu B’Shevat Book Box from last …
One of my kids’ favorite Hanukkah activities is playing dreidel (of course!) so they were really excited to see and play with this Dreidel Sensory Tray! It’s easy to set up, you can add whatever additional Hanukkah or dreidel items that you want, then invite your kids to play and explore to their dreidel delight! …
With school out for Thanksgiving break this week, we had lots of time to enjoy some science explorations with our 8 Hanukkah Science Experiments and Exploration. All of these experiments have some connection to a Hanukkah symbol—think potatoes, oil and light. And they are all so simple and most are pretty quick. It made it …
We have been slow to decorate for Hanukkah this year which is why today’s activity, Hanukkah Paint by Number Mural, is so perfect—it combines one of my kids’ favorite ways to explore art (painting) and becomes a fabulous Hanukkah decoration after it dries! What You’ll Need Kraft paper Tape Sharpie Six colors of washable paint: …
