Month: May 2015

Milk jug crafts for kids

Milk jug lotus flower craft

Playgroundparkbench is touring the world by flower. Bloggers from all around the world do a flower craft representing their state or country and share it with you all. We have flower crafts from 16 US states and 9 countries. My nine year old made a lotus flower from Milk jug to represent India. She attached a magnet to change her lotus …

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Painting ideas with homemade paint

Two ingredient homemade paint recipe

We have already tried this homemade paint recipe and I have written about that. I wanted to try the same recipe to create a similar art as my daughter enjoyed so much last time! This homemade paint recipe requires only 2 ingredients other than water. The paint creates a glossy effect and my daughter loved …

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Hands on phonetics activities for preschoolers

Fun hands on phonetics activity

We used my preschooler’s peg board to do this simple and fun hands on phonetics activity. This activity can be done with mega bloks or LEGO or any other building toys available at home. My daughter was excited to use her toy in a different way!   Affiliation links are used in the post. Materials needed: 1. Peg …

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Alphabet recognition activity for preschool

Erase the letter – Alphabet identification activity

Today’s post is about an alphabet identification activity. As kids and water go together, I need not tell that my preschooler loved this activity as it involved water. I have noticed that she shows a lot of interest if I introduce her to a different sets of medium to work with!   Materials needed:  1. …

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Photoshop video tutorial for kids

Photoshop video tutorial for kids

This post is written in part of the series Photoshop tutorials for kids.  My eight year old has done this video tutorial to explain how to create a burger with layers. Check out how she created burger without layers in this video. This Photoshop video tutorial for kids explains how to create burger with layers only …

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Free beginning readers book

Free Beginning reader books – Vowel a

As I have mentioned in my last few posts, my preschooler is very much interested in alphabets and phonetics. We are playing phonetics game with her for quite sometime now. When I say “cuh-au-tuh”, she responds back “cat”.  She is very comfortable with  “a” but needs practice with other vowels. I have used Bob books with my elder …

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