Jen Goode

Coffee Filter Painting

Sometimes the most simple ideas are the most fun ideas. Coffee filter painting is a great project your preschooler can virtually without any help at all and you can turn the colorful art pieces into other projects when the painting is all finished. If you’re preschooler can hold a marker and a paintbrush, they’re ready [...]

Drawing in Sand

I’ve seen a ton of articles lately about drawing in sand, practicing drawing letters in colored sand and sensory activities using sand. So, last week when I was at Michael’s I saw jars of colored sand for about $3 so I had to pick up a jar. I grabbed the purple and home we went. [...]

Carrot craft, creative food fun

Food fun, learn AND eat eat vegetables at the same time! I keep seeing all these fantastic, fun food creations especially on Pinterest. I don’t always have time to make something elaborate and if you have a room full of preschoolers, fancy snacks are even harder to make time for. So I set out to [...]

Disneynature’s Chimpanzee activity pages

Chimpanzee teacher guide from Disneynature

Celebrating nature, Disneynature’s newest film Chimpanzee is a cute, documentary style movie featuring a family, specifically a baby chimp named Oscar (he’s SO DARN CUTE!). The movie premiered right before Earth Day and I had the chance to see it. Bonus: a donation made toward conservation for every ticket sold the week of Earth Day! [...]

Easy Alphabet doughnuts

Turn breakfast or snack time into a learning fun. I know, doughnuts aren’t the healthiest of snacks, but when you turn your doughnuts into letters, they can’t be all bad, can they? We made our own doughnuts into letters and numbers using standard cookie cutters. You could use any recipe you like, however we used [...]

Making Veggies Fun and Yummy plus free cookbook

This post is sponsored by Country Crock. I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective, and the content and opinions expressed here are all my own. A lot of kids seem to have a natural dislike for vegetables. I don’t know if it’s the color, taste or sometimes our own [...]

Drawing and tracing circles with recycled materials

Looking for a quick and fun activity? Grab some round objects from around the house and a marker or crayon and start tracing circles. Your preschooler can make circle art, practice their shape tracing and explore a load of fun size comparisons with this activity. We used a pile of different lids for this project. [...]

Exploring color with food coloring and water

The science of color is one of my all time favorites. Even as a preschooler I loved playing with color, so sharing this with my own preschoolers is fun for me. Combining water and food coloring, you can explore a ton of different color combinations, watch colors mix right before your eyes and discover super [...]

Butterfly with hear shaped wings

Make a butterfly with heart shaped wings

Make a pretty little butterfly with heart shaped wings using only a few supplies. You can choose to decorate your butterfly with whatever materials you’d like. Color it, paint it, add glitter or make a paper mosaic. You only need paper and glue to make this project. If you’d like to, you can include a Popsicle stick [...]

Paper cup stamping the letter C

Here’s a fun stamping project you can do with your preschooler to practice recognizing the letter C. using a standard disposable cup, cut out a section so the remaining edge of the cup looks like the letter C. Because the letter C is the same right side up and upside down, you can then flip [...]

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