Colour Exploration in the Snow

Colour Exploration in the Snow

Snow and ice have become our seasonal favourite for filling sensory bins. We may get tired of them by February, but right now they seem so exciting. One cannot overlook the fact that they are also free and pretty easy to clean, since everything melts in the end. So...
Bath Bomb Christmas Ornaments with Surprise Inside!

Bath Bomb Christmas Ornaments with Surprise Inside!

You can throw together these bath bomb Christmas ornaments either as handmade stocking stuffer gifts for kids or together with them as kid-made gifts for teachers, friends and relatives. They’re easy and fun! This post contains Amazon Affiliate links for your...
Festive Spice Mix: Kid-made Gift

Festive Spice Mix: Kid-made Gift

If you are looking for a kid-made gift idea, here is our favourite from this week. Did we ever have fun, creating these rainbow spice mixes. Caution: very spicy! This post contains Amazon Affiliate links for your convenience. Toddlers have a stage when they cannot get...
DIY Toys for Kids from Recyclable Materials

DIY Toys for Kids from Recyclable Materials

When children are bored, there is nothing like contents of a recycling bin to quickly stir up some fun easy projects! …Or some elaborate ones. It depends on how carried away you get. Just today, my husband and son spent their evening, pretending that a cardboard...
Mitten: Kid-Made Christmas Ornament

Mitten: Kid-Made Christmas Ornament

Make a mitten Christmas ornament from buttons and paper, using a free printable template! We made these ornaments together with my son when he was just two – we still have them and put them on each year. We love adding new handmade ornaments onto our tree. It is...
Christmas Tree Clay Ornaments

Christmas Tree Clay Ornaments

I planned to make a set of simple Christmas tree ornaments, but my boy turned them into funny googly-eyed ornaments! The post contains affiliate links for your convenience. Our Christmas tree is up! It is a great motivation for making more Christmas ornaments. This...
Winter Worlds in Miniature

Winter Worlds in Miniature

Winter is coming, and it is a time when sensory bins and small worlds turn white too. Little people and animals are also eager to skate, throw snowballs and build snowmen. Here is a collection of our favourite ideas on how to bring winter in the playroom! I am not...
Luminescent Christmas Ornaments

Luminescent Christmas Ornaments

Like other children, my son is rather partial to things that glow and shine. It was an interesting experience for him to make a Christmas ornament that glowed and shone. Since Budster was a newborn, he was fascinated by lamps. He would lay in his bed and switch his...
Hatching Frogs with 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids

Hatching Frogs with 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids

When my friend Asia from Fun at Home with Kids offered me her upcoming book 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids to read, I was beyond myself with excitement. I have been a frequent visitor to her site for a long time, and I was very curious how it would get turned...
Ice Age Sensory Play

Ice Age Sensory Play

A new age has come to our playroom! An age when yogourt containers suddenly become precious, and there is an elephant living in the freezer. Budster has become fond of ice excavation, so we are in the midst of an Ice Age – everything will get frozen! Two days...