Preschool Spring chicks

Want something SUPER easy to do with your toddler this weekend? You have to try these preschool Spring chicks. Set up is super simple - just grab a piece of card stock and draw three chick silhouettes (which isn't even actually a silhouette...just a circle head with a bigger circle body underneath.)

Have your child sponge yellow paint all around the circles. 

Once the chicks are dry, spread glue all over the head and let them stick eyes and a beak on their chicks! You could also have them draw on the eyes and beaks, but my daughter's fine motor skills are definitely not there, if you know what I mean. 

After the faces are attached, have your kiddo draw on the legs! Lastly, use some green paint with a new sponge to give the little chicks some grass. 

This project was so easy, and cleanup was a cinch - just toss out the paper towel of paint and rinse the sponge!

Have you tried this project? Please link me to a picture in the comments below!

Simple alphabet matching activity

Here's a quick and easy snack activity (snack-tivity?) that my daughter LOVED. 

Have you seen IKEA's KEX crackers? They're cute little letter crackers that are kind of delicious too.

Lately, my daughters favorite thing to do is find things that are "matchy-matchy!" She will match a dinosaur toy to her dinosaur pants. A stuffed animal to its character in a book. A few days ago she yelled MAMA COME HERE QUICK!!  I dropped everything and rushed to her room, only to have her show me that her sock color "matchy-matchy'd" a hippo on Hungry Hungry Hippos. 

So when I saw these crackers, I knew they'd be great for matching alphabet letters. I made up a quick printout with letters the same size as the KEX crackers. 

Then I set up a bowl of crackers and let her play. She loved it!

Seriously. Easiest and quietest snack time ever. 

Need a copy of this printout? Let me know and I can link you one!