Spring 2019

We are planning on making magnetism mazes this summer at our children's program on Building Together and wanted to try out a spring example to show the kids!  In the past, we have used this idea with a bug...

We recently got invited to join A Pop of Culture's (https://www.instagram.com/a.pop.of.culture/) weekly theme of Eric Carle inspired projects!  I used to love creating Eric Carle inspired art with my class as...

We quite enjoy Red Ted Art's pinch pots (https://www.redtedart.com/?s=pinch+pot) and have been working on developing our skills with the making pinch pots, this time with an Easter-y theme! If you follow us on...

When my sisters and I were girls and our mom lead Brownies, she taught the girls to braid with shoe string liquorice and once our kids found out this- they wanted to braid "unicorn tails" after reading Zoey...

Our special little preschool friend is having a frog themed birthday party and we wanted to make her a frog birthday bin for learning and sensory play!   Materials Large bin Ziplock bags and/or...

Re-imagine a paper shopping bag into a puffy Easter egg.  This creating opportunity gives children a fine motor work out with these lovely sewn...

We tried a variation of this project a few years ago and wanted to revisit it to explore warm and cool colours!   Materials Printables: 1 Large Egg: egg 2 Medium Eggs: egg 2 Thick paper...

In the summers in University I worked at a family centre and we would often do this style of project with the kids each week, hanging them up for the week-end celebration.  The sweetest part was the fact that...