Nature cutting tray for preschool scissor skills

Nature Cutting Tray

{For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links}  It’s been a good long time since I’ve made made a new cutting tray for my preschoolers. It’s not that we haven’t been doing them (in the last two weeks we’ve re-done the “Spider Web Cutting Tray” and the “Recyclables Cutting Tray“), it’s just I haven’t…

Small Scale Art

{For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links} We love process art. Materials are presented with no required “outcome” or result. It is quite opposite of crafts. It allows creativity to flow and art to be created organically. However, sometimes we can start process art and it is a bit overwhelming. A large, blank,…

5 Tools Preschoolers could use to help in the Kitchen

{For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links} Both my toddler and preschooler love to shout the words “I do it!” They are in a stage where they want to be our little apprentices in everything we do, and then they want to do it themselves! I adore watching their confidence grow as they…

Five Ways to use Birdseed (besides making another Bird Feeder)

{For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links} Spring is here and one of the first things we did was make a bird feeder. I have a feeling a lot of other preschoolers/homeschoolers did the same activity. But here’s my problem- I completely over estimated the amount of seed I would need and now…

Spring Sensory Bin

{For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links} It has been a while since we’ve done a sensory bin (the last was a Mini Spring Sensory Bins). With Spring here I thought it was time to make a new one. The great thing about sensory bins is they are SO easy to put together.…

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly- Super cute activity!

“There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” Activity

{For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links}      There was an old lady who swallowed a fly… This is such a popular book with kids of all ages! It’s a classic “holes” book (holes peeking through from one page to the next), it has simple and repetitive text, and it’s a silly…

Clothespin name recognition activity

Clothespin Name Recognition Activity

{For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links} If you’re working with preschoolers, you know name recognition is one of the activities you’re bound to run into. We have lots of fun ways to work on Name Recognition, but this clothespin one is our favorite! Supplies: Paint stir stick Alphabet stickers Clothespins Paint Picture…

Dice Activities for Preschoolers

{For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links}   First off, let me say DO NOT TRY TO DO THIS ACTIVITY IF YOUR LITTLE ONES STILL PUT SMALL ITEMS IN THEIR MOUTHS. There. Now that that is off my chest I can go on.   As I cleaned out my old teaching supplies the…

Pattern Blocks and Play Dough

{For your convenience, this contains affiliate links}     If you follow Munchkins and Moms on Instagram, then you might have seen a sneak peak of this post a couple weeks back. It was totally unplanned and I was caught off guard with how much both of my boys really enjoyed it!   Supplies: Play dough…

“The Very Busy Spider” Cutting Activity

{For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links} Scissors can be a scary thing to introduce to toddlers. Will they cut themselves? Will they cut their hair (or someone else’s hair?!?) Do they really need to learn to use scissors yet? Of course there’s always a risk of cutting things other than the items…