Writing with Kinetic Sand

Spelling Practice with Kinetic Sand

Writing with Kinetic Sand: Kinetic sand is an awesome medium for practicing handwriting skills and spelling. It’s fun texture adds an amazing sensory experience and a smooth resistance to add an extra challenge to your child’s writing!

Spelling Practice with Kinetic Sand

When Livia first started working on her handwriting skills you could have sworn it was more torturous than pulling teeth for her. She didn’t like coloring, writing, or any of the other traditional methods of teaching kids how to write. About the only thing she enjoyed was painting, so we spent countless hours playing around with different types of paints and texture brushes.

Then we discovered Kinetic Sand (and even managed to discover our own DIY Kinetic Sand recipe) and writing became a blast for Livia. Now there is no stopping her – she has become my aspiring writer!

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Sand Slime

Homemade Sand Slime is a perfect summer sensory science activity.

Finding fun ways to play with slime is becoming a bit of a mission for my kids. It is such a quick and easy activity that leads to hours and hours of fun. This Homemade Sand Slime was put together after a trip to our local nursery. We picked up a bag of sand with … Read more

Dinosaur Dirt! Fun with Sand Foam!

Dinosaur Dirt! Fun with Sand Foam!

We sure do love us some sensory play activities here! We’ve done DIY Kinetic Sand, Crunchy Foam Dough , Homemade Snow, and so much more!

This Sand Foam has such a smooth yet slimy and grainy texture that makes for a great sensory activity that kids love!

Dinosaur Dirt! Fun with Sand Foam!

The best part is, it’s very inexpensive AND easy to make! This activity cost us $5 max!

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5 Kid Friendly Holiday Treats

Holidays Made Simple Cookie Ideas

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #HolidayMadeSimple #CollectiveBias I always love this time of year. Getting to spend time with family, building traditions, holiday entertaining with friends…cookie exchanges, shopping, visiting the trail of lights and Santa – the stuff priceless memories are made of. … Read more