We love homemade play dough – it is one of the easiest play recipes and it’s always a hit with the children! You can customize homemade play dough in so many different ways, making it an engaging and versatile sensory experience. Homemade Play Dough Recipes I prefer homemade play dough to commercial brands for a few reasons:…
There are lots of good reasons for wanting to incorporate Montessori learning and inspiration into your toddler’s routine, and there are lots of different ways to go about doing that. It’s important to note, most “Montessori toddler activities” are not actually Montessori — they are Montessori-inspired, and many more are actually Reggio- or Waldorf-inspired. That…
A couple of fun, holiday-inspired sensory materials today: no-cook marshmallow play dough and hot chocolate oobleck. (Sorry for the lack of pictures, this activity was done with her Papa while I focused on revamping her Montessori room — can’t wait to share it with you in the new year!) On a recent shopping trip I…
Pumpkin Week: Part Two Last Friday, I posted Pumpkin Week, Part One, so please check that out if you are missed that! Our pumpkin week was jam-packed, so I decided to split up the posts and really give adequate coverage to all of our activities. You can’t have a pumpkin week without attempting some carving,…
Ella loved the pumpkin spice oobleck we made recently, but it is kind of a one-time use sensory activity for kids, so I thought we’d try our hand at a pumpkin spice play dough! We’ve made this pumpkin spice play dough twice now, with a slightly different recipe each time. One version uses…
