Slime is so inviting and calming. It's a play recipe I've used for years with my preschool classes and my own children. We love to make new slime recipes for holidays, seasons, and themes. And now I've compiled some of the absolute best slime recipes. Here is a year of slime recipes that you and your children or class can explore together. A Year of Slime Recipes These slime recipes are View Post
There is No Such Thing as “Boy Colors” or “Girl Colors”
“I'm so sick of people telling Sam pink is a ‘girl color’”, my friend, Heather, lamented recently. “He went to pick out his soccer cleats today and was about to pick the pink ones until the store employee told him they were for girls. I've always told Sam, ‘There is no such thing as boy colors and girl colors. There is only color. People can choose to like any color they want’. But it's confusing View Post
How To Make Easter Slime For Sensory Play
Have you made homemade slime yet? It's a fun, sensory activity for kids of all ages. Since Easter is just around the corner, we made an Easter themed version of the Perfect Slime today. This Easter Slime recipe is easy-to-make and always a hit with kids. You might find it helpful to read my post about the most common mistakes people make when making slime. This way you can avoid the View Post
Practicing Scissor Skills with Recycled Artwork
Most classrooms have an abundance of student artwork that needs to be recycled throughout the year. Instead of filling up the waste basket or recycling bin with it, consider placing it in a "cutting try" for scissor skills practice! Supplies for an Artwork Cutting Tray: Artwork to recycle Tray to contain everything Different types of preschool scissors There are lots of scissors View Post
Fun and Simple Easter Egg Roll Painting
As soon as the stores began to fill with plastic Easter eggs, marshmallow candy, and stuffed bunnies, my children started getting very excited for Easter. We always love to do themed crafts around the holidays, so we made this Easter Egg Roll Painting today. In this process art activity, your children will not only use plastic eggs to paint and create a colorful Easter craft, but they will also View Post
The Amazing Benefits of Forest School
The practice of immersing children in nature from an early age has long been popular in the Scandinavian countries, not the least through the tradition of “forest schooling.” Now the concept of learning in nature is finally starting to catch on in the U.S. And with good reason - for young children, the benefits of forest school are both plentiful and profound! The original Scandinavian forest View Post
Leprechaun Slime Recipe for St. Patrick’s Day
This is such a fun leprechaun slime recipe to try with the kids this St. Patrick's Day! We love slime recipes and sensory play. We had a sneaky leprechaun who decided to put slime all over the gold. What a tricky wee thing we must have running around this St. Patrick's Day. That means the kids have to pick out their fortune from the green slime before they can spend their treasure--what View Post
Rainbow Name Tracing Activity
Your kids will love this rainbow name tracing activity. It's a fun and colorful way for preschoolers to learn their name while developing fine motor skills! Spring is the perfect time for all things rainbow. So when I wanted to do a name activity with my three-year old, I figured I would add a rainbow spin to it. This is a great way for young children to become familiar with their name and View Post
How to Make Perfect Slime
If you are looking for the perfect slime recipe and don’t want a slime fail, you are in the right place. After years of making slime recipes, I have figured out how to make slime right…the first time! I tested this recipe out on my friends who swore they couldn’t make slime and didn’t want to try again. I begged them to try it… just one last time. I'm even including a video of the View Post
The Mixed-Up Chameleon Process Art Activity
Yesterday we came up with a fun process art activity to go with the book The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle. Before I get into the project, though, let me take a brief minute to discuss process art. Process art activities are my favorite kind of preschool projects! In process art, the focus is on the process of the artistic experience, not on the outcome of the project. It allows kids to View Post