Hosting a sleepover? Pack your child’s overnighter with a fun science craft! Here’s a fun and safe way to grow rock crystals during the night.

Three colorful lava-lamp projects. Make them all!

Alphabet Puzzle Hunt Sensory Bin. Recognize letters. #toddler #toddleractivity #sensorybin

Are you still looking for a fun last-day-before-break activity? Here is one of my favorites. In fact, I wasn’t much of a classroom party planner, so I would do this instead of a winter party with my third graders. It was a hit every year! And it was much easier to contain excited kiddos than when I would try to [...]

Simple DIY home made moon sand (or cloud dough) using only two simple everyday ingredients.

IVORY SOAP (microwave) EXPERIMENT! Watch a bar of soap expand to 6 times its size in a minute and a half! - Happy Hooligans

Watch a bar of soap rapidly expand to 6x its size in a minute and a half in the microwave. This Ivory Soap experiment will fascinate kids and adults alike!

Make this very fun and educational project for your animal-loving kids!

As a toddler teacher, one of my favorite inexpensive toys to make is the sensory bottle: a plastic bottle (usually from water, Voss is my favorite brand, based on bottle shapes) filled an interesting material. They come in two varieties: shakers, which are full loud materials. These are great for safely playing with choking…

Combine art and science in this fun and easy activity for kids using baking soda and vinegar! Such a fun science experiment for preschool and kindergarten!

Make a color mixing sensory bottle for sensory play, learning about colors, or just for fun! These are perfect for all ages.

MThis fun project really is recycling at its finest. It’s wintertime and extremely cold in many areas of the country right now. Well with this educational project, you can embrace the cold, have fun with the kids (this would be an excellent project for a classroom),

This themed sand toy kit includes gems, coins, jewels and a sand sifter. Bury the treasures in your sensory bin, sand table or sandbox and kids can dig or sift the play sand to find the buried treasure! Count and compare their finds and sort by color. How many jewel shapes are there? Which color is the most popular?

Hands on learning activities are great. Learn how to create a science experiment for your kids with supplies you already have at home.