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Vegetable Soup Water Table Play Activity

August 7, 2018 by Stacy Craft 3 Comments

You can create this vegetable soup water table play activity with things that you probably already have in your kid’s playroom and your kitchen for lots of summer fun. 

Vegetable Soup Water Table Play

Vegetable Soup Water Table Sensory Activity for Preschool Kids

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Playing with our water table is almost a daily activity during the spring and summer for us. My kids enjoy playing with it just as intended but I also like to occasionally provide themes to spice it up and keep it interesting.

We decided to be a pretend chef and cook up a vegetable soup water table play session this week.

If your kids love sensory activities, don’t miss the 10 Second Edible Baby Sensory Play Activity, Cookie Cereal Baking Bin and the Fall Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Bin. And if you need a way to organize your kid’s dress up stuff, read this!

Vegetable Soup Water Table Play

Making vegetable soup in our water table entertained my 4 year old for about 30 minutes. My 9 month old even got in on the fun, although his attention span is not as long!

What You Need:

Water Table or even a plastic storage bin or a bowl could work. 

Pretend Vegetables

Plastic Spoons/Bowls

Water

Vegetable Soup Water Table Play Set up

Reason #3849 that I love water table activities – it is so easy to set up. As a busy mama, things that take just a couple of minutes to set up are the best kind of activities!

I just gathered up our play vegetables, plastic bowls, and spoons. If you don’t have play bowls and spoons, just use some plastic ones from your real kitchen! My daughter decided to add in some fruit to our vegetable soup, so we went with it.

Once it was ready, she spent some time washing her fruits and veggies (it is amazing what our kids pick up on watching us in our daily lives).

Drop the veggies (and fruit if you are using it) into your water table and fill it with water. It seems like such a simple idea but just offering the simple task of “making soup” completely reinvigorated the water table for my little one.

She spent time creating different recipes. Of course we “tasted” each one. She even washed the dishes after we tried each new creation.

I love that she can be creative and practice life skills while playing pretend. Not to mention that we all got some nice outside time as well.

Don’t mind the little one. He is trying to make “bulldozer soup” a thing.

Here is a bowl of her delicious soup that she created. Seeing your kid’s imagination at work is a rewarding experience.

I also love that I can keep a toy that we have had for a while (note the baked on dirt that no amount of scrubbing will remove) fresh and fun. 

This vegetable soup water table play activity is a simple water table idea to encourage creative play. Would your kids enjoy this cooking theme for the water table?

Pin this Vegetable Sensory Soup for Later!

Need more summer fun activities? Check out this list of the Best Water toys for toddlers!

Filed Under: Featured, Play Tagged With: creative, imagination, play, Preschool, sensory, toddler, water table

Educational Baby Shower Gift With A Unique Twist

April 13, 2018 by Stacy Craft 3 Comments

Giving holiday books is a great baby shower gift that is fun all year round and encourages the many benefits of reading to young kids.

Holiday Book Baby Shower Gift

I am in that season of my life where it seems like everyone is having a baby.

With babies come showers and finding the perfect gift. After your 8th baby shower in 2 months, you might be struggling with ideas on what to buy.

With this educational gender neutral baby shower gift, you will be giving a way for Mom to celebrate the baby all year long. The best part is that you can get it delivered right to your door (and not have to pack up your own kids and head to the store – win!).

If you are like me, the love that you have for Pinterest is indescribable. But with that, comes a certain acceptance. I just don’t have time to create some of the elaborate masterpieces on Pinterest – despite how much fun I have pinning them to my boards for one day.

I have come to terms with it (mostly). However, that doesn’t mean that I don’t like giving thoughtful and creative gifts. And if you want to see how to create another holiday inspired baby shower gift, click here.

Educational Baby Shower Gift With Free Printable Gift Tag - A unique holiday inspired gift for New Baby and Mom
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Educational Gender Neutral Baby Shower Gift

Here I am going to show you one of my favorite ways to give an educational gender neutral baby shower gift that is also unique, creative and fun. I actually developed this idea from a gift that my friend’s mother in law likes to do with baby clothes. Since I’m a holiday lover and a book lover, this seemed like a great way to extend both of those to a friend expecting a new baby.

Holiday Board Book Set

Holiday Board Book Gift Set for Gender Neutral Shower

Gifting books is a great way to give an educational item that provides quality bonding time between baby and the parent. I love to do a holiday set so that the gift is something that can be anticipated all year long creating fun memories. It is such a simple idea that is still creative and easy to purchase. In fact, I do it from my couch!

I like to do the following holidays but you can add more or subtract any that you don’t like or can’t find easily:

Valentine’s Day

St. Patrick’s Day

Easter

4th of July

Halloween

Thanksgiving

Christmas

Baby’s First Birthday

Links by Holiday

Holiday Gift tag for Gender Neutral Baby Shower Gift

The absolute best part of this is that you can create this gift from the comfort of your own home! Amazon makes it so easy to find the holiday books all year long. Here are easy to use links for your educational gender neutral baby shower gift of board books by holiday.

Valentine’s Day:

llama llama I love You

Happy Valentine’s Day Mouse

St. Patrick’s Day:

The Itsy Bitsy Leprechaun

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Curious George

Easter:

Easter Touch & Feel Book

Happy Easter, Mouse

4th of July: 

Corduroy’s Fourth of July

Happy Halloween:

Spooky Pookie

Biscuit Visits the Pumpkin Patch

llama llama Trick or Treat

Happy Thanksgiving:

llama llama Gives Thanks

Bright Baby Happy Thanksgiving

Merry Christmas:

Christmas in the Manger

Merry Christmas Touch and Feel Book

Duck & Goose It’s Time for Christmas

First Birthday:

Birthday Monsters

Happy Birthday to You

Baby Touch & Feel Happy Birthday

Inexpensive & Unique Gift – Great for 2nd time Moms

You can easily keep this gift under $30 depending on how many books you include or even less if you do just a couple holidays. This is also a great choice for baby sprinkles (second, third or fourth time moms). You still want to get them a sweet present but they have every baby onesie, receiving blanket and bib known to man. I know in my house, books are always a welcome gift.

Free Printable Gift Tag

Gender Neutral Baby Shower Gift Bag and Tag

I have created a free simple gift tag that you can print for your board book gift. You can punch a hole at the top and simply attach it to a gift bag. For a fun no wrap option, just stack your books together, wrap some cute twine or ribbon around them to secure & attach the gift tag. Your educational gender neutral baby shower gift is now ready to gift to the proud parents and new baby.


What is your favorite holiday board book for baby?

 

 

 

Filed Under: Featured, Play Tagged With: Baby, baby shower gift, creative, educational, frugal, gender neutral, gift, holiday, shower, unique

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