Stickers are a wonderful activity for practicing fine motor skills. The boys went through a few months of requesting them every day. But there were two problems: Not all stickers are toddler friendly. Some of them are challenging for me to peel the backing off. And so instead of an independent activity while I wash up the breakfast dishes, it turned into an activity that required my constant hovering and more nimble fingers. Sometimes the speed at which toddlers fly through those $7 sticker books makes me feel like I need to ration them out each day. And then I was at the Dollar Tree and saw the white sticker…
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Free Christmas Cards Printable
My Christmas memories involve a lot of creating and crafting. It felt as if our dining room table was just as frequently a crafting table as it was a place for eating. It was often covered in pine cones and jingle bells and cinnamon cutout ornaments and ribbon. I look back on it all pretty fondly now. We would create amongst ourselves all season long, but it was also something we would casually invite friends to join us in because while cookie decorating is fun, one can only consume so many of those. All of this is simply to say that creativity has become deeply entwined in the way that…
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Free Greeting Card Printable
Teaching Thoughtfulness Alongside Creativity As I shared in my thoughts On The Importance of Creativity, creativity does not need to always be about productivity. It’s about the process of creating and what that process does in us. And sometimes the focus on the end product can get in the way of that. That said, it also seems like a waste to have all of our children’s artwork sitting in piles around the house. And there’s only so much space on the refrigerator. There’s a sweetness to children’s art, as if their innocence somehow comes through even there. With my own child and the little one I nanny, we’re currently in…
