Sensory Play Recipes

Making Sensory Play Recipes at home is a frugal and simple way to have hours of fun with your kids. Creating our own play materials is by far one of my families favorite ways to spend a day at home together. We could seriously create with play recipes daily!

Playing with your kids does not need to be messy, complicated, or expensive. Plus this play is a fantastic way to sneak in some sensory integration to your play!

Rainbow Clean Mud

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Ever had your child soak a roll of toilet paper? Instead of throwing it away turn it into this super fun Rainbow Clean Mud!

Have you ever had a child soak a roll of toilet paper in the sink? It happens in my home all the time. Last night I was actually pulling soaking wet toilet paper out of the bath tub. Who does that?! Obviously my kids… Instead of tossing the wet toilet paper into the garbage can I set it aside to make this super fun Rainbow Clean Mud.

Ever had your child soak a roll of toilet paper? Instead of throwing it away turn it into this super fun Rainbow Clean Mud!

For my baby shower with my oldest child members of my Mom’s church gave me a notebook filled with their favorite activities to do with their children. We originally discovered this toddler mud recipe in that book and it has been one of our favorite messy play bins for almost eight years now!

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Conversation Heart Watercolor Paints

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Who knew this science experiment would lead us to discovering How to Make Conversation Heart Watercolor Paints?

Now that Valentine’s day is over my house is overflowing with candy from the kids. In efforts to avoid the impending candy rush that is bound to happen as soon as my kids figure out where I have hidden the candy, we have started doing various science experiments and projects using our candy. Who said you had to eat it anyways?! These Conversation Heart Watercolors have created a fantastic paint and kept my kids occupied and creating for quite some time!

Who knew this science experiment would lead us to discovering How to Make Conversation Heart Watercolor Paints?

This project originally started out as a science experiment that we did last year. When we revisited Dissolving Candy Hearts my kids ended up taking the experiment in a different direction once their hearts had fully “melted”. Knowing that my kids wanted to make a watercolor paint with their hearts, we did change up some of it ahead of time. Make sure to visit our science experiment on Melting Hearts to expand on this activity with!

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Mess Free Paint Bags

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Mess Free Painting Bags are a fantastic educational activity for kids of all ages!

Recently it has been bitterly cold outside and my boys have been bouncing off the walls. I have always parented with the philosophy that if you remove the walls kids cannot bounce off of them, but our weather here just does not want to cooperate. This has left me in desperate need of activities that will engage both of the boys (9 months and three years old). The versatility offered in Mess Free Painting Bags has been the perfect solution to get the two of them exploring and playing safely together!

Mess Free Painting Bags are a fantastic educational activity for kids of all ages!

For this activity, we worked on both color mixing, letter recognition, pre-writing skills, and sharing!

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The Secret to a Vibrant and Soft Homemade Play Dough

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The Secret to Vibrant and Soft Play Dough

It’s no secret that we love play dough around here. It seems like daily I am having to whip up another batch. While learning how to make play dough I ran into a couple different frustrations like reds that looked more like pinks and dyeing processes that left my hands stained and my kitchen a mess.

The Secret to Vibrant and Soft Play Dough

For the longest time I used and loved our easy play dough recipe. It is a fail proof way to make an amazing play dough that lasts. We even discovered how to turn the easy play dough recipe into a glow in the dark play dough recipe…But I have to be completely honest and say that I really wanted to find a method that was even easier than that.

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How to Make Perfect Fake Snow

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Every morning it seems like I have woken up to more snow appearing outside. While I personally am not a fan of snow, my little guy is absolutely in love with it. It is magical, fascinating, and fun. If he had his way he would spend his entire day bundled up rolling around in the backyard. With also having a little man under 1 year old though letting my preschooler spend that sort of time outside is difficult. Roo (under 1) cannot spend the sort of time outside that Meatball (3) would like to, so we found a way to bring (fake) snow inside.

This DIY Snow Recipe is a super simple way to make snow that will not melt. It is also a fun science experiment in absorbency!

This DIY Snow recipe is a super simple way to make snow that will not melt. It is also a fun science experiment in absorbency!

Once we made this snow Meatball played with it for hours in the kitchen. He built snowmen, castles, and pulled out his trucks to help with the heavy work. When Meatball was younger we had made a different version of homemade snow so it was a lot of fun to see the differences between the two.

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