Candy Corn OREO Cookie Balls

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The leaves are changing colors and the temperatures are cooling. Fall is in the air.  I love Fall for so many reasons.  Making yummy treats is just one!  We host Thanksgiving each year here at my house.  I always love finding a fun dessert or treat to share with my family.  OREO Cookies Balls are perfect.  Easy enough to make and oh so good.  To really embrace Fall, I created Candy Corn OREO Cookie Balls.  The kids went crazy for these fun treats.  I must admit I was worried I would eat them all at one time.

Pumpkin Spice Clean Mud- Fall Sensory Table

Here is this weeks Fall Sensory Table for you with a fun Pumpkin Spice theme.  I have been dying to make "clean mud" with the boys forever.  So now was a great time to try it.  It was a perfect hands on sensory play material for one of our 4 fall sensory tables.

Pumpkin Investigation and Sensory Play with Cinnamon Sprinkle Goop

I love fall time.  The weather, the associated scents of pumpkin and cinnamon, the holidays, and our family adventure traditions. 

One family tradition is going to the Farm each year to pick pumpkins. This family adventure is one of my favorites.  It has corn mazes, corn cannons,  pig races, and a corn house for the kids, just to name a few activities we can do while there.  It is such a joy to watch the kids take it all in each year.  And we always come home with way too many pumpkins, or so I think once we get home. 

This year we decorated with a few plain pumpkins and we then did pour paint tape resistant art with one, and glitter glue and googly eyes with one.  Now we had a few more pumpkins that needed to be put to good use. I set out to let the boys investigate  the inside of a pumpkin for the FIRST time this year (we never carve the pumpkins since the boys are still so young).  And of course we couldn't just cut the pumpkin up for some scientific examination, we had to play with it too.

Fun Fall Snack Mix

We enjoy making and eating snack mix at our house.  It can be fun to make and even more fun to snack on.  Since fall is in the air for us I decided to mix up some of our favorite snacks together and called it Fun Fall Mix.  Hope you and your family can enjoy it with us.

10 Ways to Play With Stackadoos Blocks

Excited to work with B. Toys to bring you this post.

So, if you follow along with us here, you know we love B. Toys!  I recently set out to put together a list of activities just for their Stackadoos.  So many fun ways to play with just one toy.  I hope you can find an idea or two to also enjoy.

Halloween Sensory Noodles Play Activity

This is our first Halloween Sensory Play Activity.  We have not done a lot of Halloween play or crafts in the past.  My oldest is just now in preschool (2012).  Now that the kids are getting older I thought I would set them up a Halloween play activity.  Colored noodles can be so much fun.  We have done holiday themed noodles before and my boys loved them!  I decided to do them again with a Halloween twist.  Halloween Sensory Noodles Play Activity is what I came up with.

M&Ms Candy Turkey Handprint- Thanksgiving crafts for kids

We just recently started doing a lot of hand and footprint art.  I love it because not only is it cute, it is great for my multiple age kids (1yr, 2yr,  and 5yr).  They all get to create an art project all their own by using their individual prints. With Thanksgiving fast approaching it was time for us to start working on a family tradition, handprint turkeys.  I made these handprint turkeys with my mom and love being able to make them with my kids too.  Since we make them each year I am always looking for new ways we can change them up a bit.  Here is just one we made them this year, M & Ms Turkey Handprints.

10+ Fall Activities Kids Love

Fall is in the air. It has become one of my favorite times of the year. I love finding new ideas for me and my kids to try during the fall. For this reason I have done my next post in the series 10 10+ (updated fall 2014) Things Kids Love ~ fall ideas for kids. I hope you can find some exciting ideas in this list. I know I did for me and the family.

Pumpkin Spice Scented Pumpkin Volcano for Kids

We love SCENTED sensory play.  Anything I can add scent to I will try it. After doing our Apple Scented Apple Volcanoes I knew we would have to try pumpkin spice scented pumpkin volcanoes! Now to just figure out how to do this.  It took some thought but I finally came up with a way to do it and the kids loved it.  This is a great sensory and science activity for the kids.

Halloween Frozen Goop

We first tried goop in 2012 and the kids loved it.  See it here How to Make Goop.  Ever since, we have only played with "goop" a few more times.  Our sweet potato ooey gooey fall table was fun last year.  I even got in on playing in that one, lol.  With Halloween coming up I set out to come up with a few sensory play ideas I knew my kids would enjoy.  This Halloween, Frozen Goop was a big hit with the kids!  

Humpty Dumpty "Egg"periment

Excited to be a part of Sugar Aunts Nursery Rhyme Series.  Make sure to head over to Sugar Aunts to see the list of all the wonderful ideas shared in this series.  We are posting at the end so many great ideas have already been shared.

Growing up I had one favorite must have comfort item and it was my Humpty Dumpty Pillow my Great Tia(or aunt) made for me.  I took that pillow everywhere and had to have it to sleep.  When invited to take part in this nursery rhyme series I did not have to think twice which rhythm we would focus on.  Humpty Dumpty is would be!  What better way to have fun with the kids then to try our own Humpty Dumpty "EGG"periment to test out gravity.  This was a big hit at my house.

Fun and Yummy Treats for the Kids {kids co-op 9-25}

Check out last weeks Kids Co-op found HERE.  Now lets get ready for this weeks Link up.  If you blog share your fun kid center post.  If you do not blog  take a minute to look through the list below to see what fun ideas you can use for you and the kids.  I always find something that I can't wait to try.

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The Color Orange Play Actvities for Kids

September is Hunger Awareness Month.  The color orange also represents hunger.  So this month we have gone orange to help raise awareness.  I enjoy teaching my kids to give to others.  Giving food donations to our local food pantry is something we do often.   Even if it is just a small bag of can goods it is still helping someone.  To that someone it is huge.  In honor of this month, I have compiled a list of ORANGE Play Activities for kids.  

Apple Clean Mud Fall Sensory Play for Kids

If you know me then you probably knew it was only a matter of time before we made Apple Scented Clean Mud.  Clean Mud is easy and cheap to make and a lot of fun to play with.  I made the kids a batch of apple berry scented clean mud in red, yellow, and green.  They could not wait to start playing.  The scent was amazing. 

Gingerbread Playdough Recipe

YAY, for Playdough Day.  One of the best days of the year! To celebrate here is a great holiday playdough recipe that can be fun anytime of the year.

It seems to have become a yearly tradition to make a batch of Gingerbread Playdough for the kids at Christmas time.  I made it last year for them to make a few Playdough Turkeys and they loved it.  I never got around to sharing the recipe.  This year the kids just had to have gingerbread playdough again.  I foresee many more Christmas's with homemade holiday playdough.  Since my kids have enjoyed it so much, I have decided to find the time to write out the recipe so maybe others can enjoy it too.

Autumn Activities for the kids {kids co-op 9-11}

Check out last weeks Kids Co-op found HERE.  Now lets get ready for this weeks Link up.  If you blog share your fun kid center post.  If you do not blog  take a minute to look through the list below to see what fun ideas you can use for you and the kids.  I always find something that I can't wait to try.

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Leaf Monster Art for Kids

The leaves have started to turn here in the south!  I am super excited for Fall as I love the weather, activities, and holidays it brings.  While on a morning walk I stepped on a colorful leaf and inspiration hit.  I can make Leaf Monster Art with the kids when I get back home. The colorful leaves would make a great canvas for a morning art project.

Apple Scented Bubbles for Outside Fall Play

Be sure to head over to All Things Kids today to see my post on DIY Scented Bubbles and Bubble Wands!!!  It is part of ATK bloggers Fall Series this month.  Do not miss out on all the other fun post shared in the series!

                                                   

Pumpkin Pie No Cook Playdough

I love the scents of Fall.  Pumpkin is just one of many I love.  While baking one afternoon with the kids, I decided to make them their own pumpkin pie playdough to play with after the baking was over.  They continued pretend play baking with their new, no cook playdough I made them.

                        

Apple Sparkle Slime

For the love of Apples!  I can not stop thinking up apple play ideas, lol.  Now that it is finally September, maybe I will get hit with another theme for inspiration. 

Apple slime is quick, easy, and low cost to make and play with.  It can get messy so play if you dare.