Making puffy paint at home is so easy and lots of fun for the kids! They especially love seeing their artwork puff up. Your children will love this craft. It’s easy and you can make it with ingredients you may already have at home.
Homemade Puffy Paint
6 Ways to Teach Early Math Skills with Coloured Craft Sticks
We love this inexpensive and effective math manipulatives to help your child learn their colours, numbers, patterns and shapes using only coloured craft sticks and velcro dots found at the dollar store. Great ideas for toddlers, preschoolers and school aged kids.
Learning Colours: Painting with Corks
We love to try new ways to create beautiful artwork with our kids. From handprints to fingerpainting, momstown moms and kids love to get messy with mixed mediums while they work together on crafts!
Sign of the Month: Colours
momstown moms and kids are learning all about colour this month at our community events, so we wanted to teach the babies, toddlers and preschoolers the ASL sign language for their colours! What a fun way to add to their knowledge and sign together!
“O” is for Olympics- Olympic Flag Craft for Kids
“Opportunity” also begins with the letter “O”, and I was not about to pass this one up. We dug out our craft supplies, and created our own “O is for Olympics” alphabet craft.
Olympic Ring Toss with Paper Plates
Want to BE in your own Olympics this year? We love this craft to actually create a new Olympic Sport….the paper plate ring toss!!!
Making the Olympic Flag with Pipe Cleaners
The one great way for kids to really get involved is to create some Olympic crafts and decorations to have around the house. We love these ways to make the Olympic flag with your kids.
Making the Olympic Flag with Play Dough
To get us in the Olympic spirit, we started to think of ways to make the Olympic flag. We also learned that each colour was meant to represent a colour on the flags of all countries who participate! Here’s one fun way we practiced some great fine motor skills, patterning, colour recognition, and shapes!
R is for Rainbow- teach your child the colours in the rainbow
Having fun with the alphabet and starting to recognize letters is the best part of our monthly Alphabet Play programs at momstown. Each month, a new letter or group of letters is the focus of our event; from books and crafts to songs and parachute time!
