Imaginary Play : Betty Lukens Felt Boards

Talk about bringing in some imagination to our days!

We received these awesome, very high quality felts from Betty Lukens Felts a couple weeks ago.

The Carville mat will not be left alone!

I once had to actually put it up out of sight so I could get the kids to listen to me!

Henry has used it for everything imaginable.

Cars, trucks, the ambulance, fire trucks, motorcycles, backhoes, semis, tractors, cement trucks....

There's everything to do on this car mat! 

Read more »

It's Playtime : Halloween Googly Eyes

We've been having a blast with the googly eyes that we received from CraftProjectIdeas.com.

Googly eyes were used to make our yarn monsters, as well as being added to a spooky sensory gel bag, and to top it off, we made pumpkin mummies with them!

Googly eyes make everything fun and adds a spookiness to it too!

Here's some Halloween ideas for googly eyes found on It's Playtime last week:

[My Creative Family: Googly Eyes Spider Mask]

Read more »

40 Pumpkin Activities for Kids

T'is the season for pumpkins!

But what do you do with them [aside from setting them out on your front porch]?

You can always carve them for Halloween.

But what else is there?

I've scrounged the blog world and came up with 40 amazing pumpkin activities, that your preschooler [and even toddlers and babies!] can enjoy doing.

Twelve pumpkin activities.

Eight learning activities with pumpkins.

Fourteen decorating ideas for pumpkins. [Aside from the usual carvings.]

Six activities to do with the insides of pumpkins!

You'll look forward to this season from now on!

Read more »

Halloween Craft : Pumpkin Mummies

Pumpkin mummies!

These are a super cute craft for Halloween that the preschoolers can do!

Read more »

Toddler Sensory Activity : Slimy Eyes

A perfect sensory activity for Halloween.
As well as perfect for all ages, including babies and toddlers!

I saw these Halloween and fall hair gel sensory suncatchers on It's Playtime a couple weeks ago, from Happy Hooligans. They have lots of ideas that they added to their sensory sun catchers.

What's in the sensory bag?

Read more »