Kool-aid ice bowling

We love to play with ice and so we made Kool-Aid ice balls. Fun for summer play and a great way to stay cool.

All you need is balloons, kool-aid packets, water and a freezer. Then can use pins or plastic cups for the bowling pins. What we used was plastic pins from our Little Tikes bowling set.

Hours of fun and if you place paper down to make an alley then you can have some cool painting as well.

This activity is great for fine motor skills, eye hand coordination and fun way to get moving. Below are a couple other fun games we have done be sure to check them out.

Monster Dice

Squirt Game

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Alphabet treasure sensory learning play

My kids love pirate play and we have lots of fun with sensory bins so I put together a fun and super easy alphabet learning bin.

This bin cost less than $5.00 to put together. I used the pirate toys we had around the house and then to make the dirt I just used a container of dry oatmeal and mixed in dry instant coffee to make it have that dirty look.

The coins, necklace,and  letters I got all at the Dollar Tree. You can even get the oatmeal and instant coffee there as well. 

"J" knows his letters but I still like to practice doing them so he doesn't lose track. The fun thing about this sensory bin is you can do numbers, letters, or even words. 

We love to sing and play music, so I like to come up with games that have songs when trying to get "J" to follow along. It helps him to get into the game and keep his mind off that he is learning.

Song we sang: (Tune is to Are you Sleeping?)

Digging for treasures

Digging for treasures

One by one

One by one

Found letter (blank)

found letter (blank)

Now lets have some fun 

Then after we got a letter I would ask what is something that starts with that letter or you can ask what sound does that letter make.

Then you start over again.

This is a fun game to play with kids in preschool or even in kindergarten.

Love "J" face he was so excited when he came downstairs this morning and saw this.

 "C" was really into the treasure box, they played for over an hour.

Materials used:
Large container of oatmeal($2.00 @ Wal-Mart)
Instant coffee($1.00 @ Dollar Tree)
Magnet letters($1.00 @ Dollar Tree)
Rest of the things were from around the house

Also the sensory bin we use is from Home Depot is a cement mixing container $5.00.

After the kids play with the coffee oatmeal mix can be placed in a baggie and reuse it. Can get multiple uses out of this for less than $5.00.

If you like to play games with songs be sure to check out some of the other fun ones we have done.

Fall number tree

Picking apples

Counting ghost

Also, make sure you check back next week cause I have a dinosaur and construction one coming.

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Halloween stack, count and squirt game

Over the summer we made this game and the kids loved it. So I decide to paint half the cups white for a ghost and other half orange for pumpkins.

"J" and "C" had fun playing this again. "C" loved stacking them. "J" kept squirting them.

This is a great fine and gross motor skill for the kids when they are squirting the water bottle and moving around. Then eye/hand coordination when they stack them.

Plus the fun they have playing.



 

Be sure to check out the other fun Halloween things we have done.

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Monster dice learning and fun party game

We have been working with numbers and have made some dice with numbers on them in the past. "J" loved playing with them so I thought it would be fun to make our own dice game the kids could play with and tie into Halloween.

So "J" and "C" sat and painted the dice orange. Then when "C" was napping "J" and I placed the eyeballs on the dice and I wrote Halloween action words on the dice.

They really had a great time playing the game.

I got the wood dice at a craft store(A.C. Moore) and used a 50% off coupon 2 different times or you can print 2 coupons and have someone go with you, get both that trip.

Total cost of this project was $4.00 and the nice thing is it is reuseable.

This would be a really fun game to play at a kids Halloween Party as well.

The kids would roll the dice and then they had to do what the dice said, the number of times it landed on.

This is great for helping read and count the eyes on the dice.

Words on the dice:

Pumpkin kick

Screwcrow skip

Witch jump

Spider crawl

Cat walk

Ghost hop

If you like this make sure to check back, cause we will be doing more fun Halloween games.

Be sure to check out the other fun Halloween fun we have done as well. Terra cotta pumpkin pots, Spider keepsake handprints, Hocus Pocus sensory play, Hallowen Lantern, and Pumpkin seed craft


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Make your own kids tricycle wash with pvc pipes

Every time we are out and "J" sees a car wash he wants to take the car in for a wash. So I saw this idea on Pinterest to make a car wash out of pvc pipes.


So I took "J" to Home Depot and we got all the materials that were needed for this project.

Guy at Home Depot measuring the 10 ft pvc pipes to cut in half.

Home Depot man cutting the pvc in half

J holding some of the pvc pipes

20 connectors.....10 of each  above they are 1/2 in.

Pieces connected together

Have to say it was pretty easy to put together and "J" was all into connecting the pieces together. Can't say I was too sure that it would work, but it did. Love when projects come through.

Materials:
5...10ft 1/2in pvc pipes we had the guy at Home Depot cut them in half
2 different connector pieces (can see in picture above)
Sponges from around the house and grabbed some from Dollar Tree
Pool Noodles as side bumpers.
3/4 hose connector as well and we used duct tape to connect it to the 1/2 pvc pipe(can see in picture)
Drill...to drill holes in the pvc.
"C" loved it more than "J" did. All "J" did was want to put it together. Then we took it out when their cousins came to stay for a couple days and "J" loved to play in it. So guess it all depends on the mood.

It works as a great sprinkler then when you are done take it apart store it and then place together again.

Total cost was about $28. which is what you would pay for the plastic summer toys and this can be used for other projects later.

"C" loved getting wet

Washing the tricycle

Ok all clean, here I come.

Water wasn't coming out one of the holes so he was trying to be Mr. Fix-it

Kiddos having fun.

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Alphabet scoop for spelling

On this HOT summer day we were playing in the pool and I wanted to throw in a little learning fun. So I filled the pool up with all the letters we have and we scooped up letters. Then dumped them out to see if we could spell words.

J and C had fun, after doing this for about 25 min then he said mom, "we need to dive in the ocean and get a bunch." He remembered when we played with the water beads and scooping them.

This was alot of fun, they did it for about 45 min. Simple, fun and he didn't even take it as learning.

You can also do this in the bath tub if you don't have a baby pool.



Couple words we spelled, also did mom, meme, fun, hi, net, play, cat, dog and hat.

If you are looking for fun and easy thing to do with the kids to learn alphabets be sure to check out.
                                                   10 ways to have fun with alphabets

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Stencil spray painting at the creek

J has been asking to go back to the creek to play and so we met one of our friends there(http://www.gokidyourself.com/) for a fun time. Make sure you check her awesome blog out.

I brought some spray paint to do some fun painting on the rocks, the kids had fun doing it along with playing in the water, throwing rocks, nature walk, and much more.

Materials:
Spray bottle
Washable paints (I mixed paint and water) 1/2 and 1/2 mixture.

I saw the idea of using a leaf as a stencil at Creavtive Play when they used the leaves as stencils painting on a towel. Loved the way it turned out. Make sure you check their art out at http://www.creativeplayhouse.mumsinjersey.co.uk/2012/01/spray-painting-leaves.html.

Little sis doing what Big brother is doing.

Playing with his boat in the creek

J looking at the map to see what way to go.

J found some leaves to use as stencils and spray painted them.

Stencil design you get...pretty cool.

Momma painting with the chef from Go Kid yourself.

Throwing rocks in the creek

Taking a little rest

Below are some of the fun things we got to see on our fun nature walk

Peaceful waterfall

Lake

Beautiful butterfly

Stepping stones to walk across the creek

Little fish we saw in the creek

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