Fall Nature Hunt for Kids

Free Fall Nature Hunt Printable!

Fall is the perfect season for watching nature change. Leaves turn every color, squirrels race around with nuts and seeds and pods drop everywhere. A fall nature hunt gives kids a reason to slow down and really look, and it works for toddlers all the way up to big kids. Ages 1 and up Time … Read more

Pumpkin Scented Moon Sand

Pumpkin moon sand recipe for kids featured image

It’s pumpkin everything season, and sensory play is no exception. This taste safe pumpkin moon sand is soft, moldable and smells like a pumpkin patch. It takes three pantry ingredients and about five minutes. And because it’s made from food, it’s a great choice for little ones who still put everything in their mouths. Ages … Read more

Taste Safe Pumpkin Play Dough

Kids will LOVE this Taste Safe Pumpkin Play Dough!

Kids think playdough is the best thing since sliced bread, and this taste safe pumpkin playdough takes it to a whole new level. It smells like fall, it feels cool and squishy, and if a little one sneaks a taste, that’s okay too. You only need two ingredients: a can of pumpkin puree and a … Read more

Exploding Pumpkin!

This Exploding Pumpkin Experiment is super neat! Can't wait to do it with the kids!

Lately Livia has been regressing. It is a pattern that I have gotten all too familiar with — 2 weeks forward, 1 week back. So this afternoon when a quick activity was needed I could not think of anything more fun and engaging to do than a simple sensory science activity. As an added bonus it is blue which got Meatball super excited! We had a blast with this volcano pumpkin experiment!

This Exploding Pumpkin Experiment is super neat! Can't wait to do it with the kids!

We found these white pumpkins at our local grocer for insanely cheap. I picked up a couple of them to do our Teal Pumpkins for FARE, but by the time we were done decorating those we still had a couple left. I had seen different versions of this science experiment on a couple different sites such as Little Bins for Little Hands and Growing a Jeweled Rose and figured this would be a fantastic way to have some fun before decorating another pumpkin!

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