Epic Childhood - Reggio, Light Table Play, and Light Play: October 2014

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

2 and 3 dimensional ART on the light cube or light table

My twins and I have been enjoying making awesome shapes, sculptures, and art on the light cube with the Constructa clips light table building kit! The kit comes with 48 red clips and 32 mylar shapes. The shapes are nice and sturdy but do bend a little for awesome building fun! The shapes are also great for color lessons! I love this kit, it is perfect for the light cube, light table, or even natural light play! They cast great color in sunlight!!

IN the photos below, we used the clear plastic trays for the light cube to hang the clips from. Then we were able to build outward and downward with the constructa clips and shapes! This was a really fun and unique building experience. This was also a very unique light cube/light table play experience.

We also used a plastic straw to create art sculptures. We used the 4 clip constructa clips to attach shapes and then we just put the straw through the whole in the center of the constructa clips. What a fun way to create art and building at the same time on the light cube!!

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Saturday, October 25, 2014

Frozen Snowball Bracelets

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****This photo has been unfortunately altered in the uploading process. There seems to be some sort of glitch with Blogger's photo uploading system. I tried multiple times with only resulting in the darkening of the photo each time. I plan to re-upload the photo in it's true state soon as Blogger fixes the glitch. You can use THIS LINK on Pinterest to share it in it's true state, which is a much brighter and prettier photo. I apologize for the inconvenience. I have never experienced this happening to me in 4 years of using Blogger. I find it to be quite odd. ;( ****

I made these fun bracelets for my friends 4 year old daughter and a few other little girls we know. They are super easy to make too!

I used a pom pom making tutorial from youtube and made some pom poms. However instead of using a fork, like in the tutorial video,

I used a Pampered Chef Hold N Slice so I could make slightly larger pom poms. I used Icicle yarn by Loops and Threads, from Michaels craft store. It is a very pretty white thread with beautiful iridescent sequins and sparkles.

First I made a few of the pom poms using the Icicle yarn, I left a long tail of yarn so I could tie them on to bracelets. The bracelet part is totally up to you on how you want to make it. I made a few in just a simple braided style. I made a few in a knotted style too. I used 4 strands of Icicle yarn for the knotted ones and 3 strands of Icicle yarn for the simple braided ones. I made them so that they are large enough for an adults wrist, so that it would be easy to tie on to a childs wrist. The extra length can be trimmed off with scissors. Once the bracelets are finished, I tie a pom pom on to the middle and secure it well, then cut the rest of the tail that I had left on in order to be able to tie the pom pom on to the bracelet.

I have left photos below of what the bracelet looks like finished, as well as the Pampered Chef Hold N Slice, the Icicle yarn, and the pom pom making tutorial. I have also left a tutorial on how to make friendship bracelets, which is essentiall what these are, just jazzed up and made to be "Frozen" style for little girls.

Pampered Chef Hold N Slice

Loops and Threads Icicle Yarn

Here are some close ups of what the bracelets look like. It's unfortunate that Blogger's uploader altered these photos by darkening them too.

I would love to be able to show how pretty they are. Maybe Blogger will be fixed by Monday and I can re-upload the photos.

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Friday, October 24, 2014

700+ Creative and Innovative Play Ideas

Come and check out all of the awesome ways we have played over the past few years!

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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Acorn Marbles

We made some light table acorns! This was a fun and easy project. All you need are some acorn caps, some marbles, and a hot glue gun!

We also made some glass gem towers. They will be really fun to use on the light table too! Just a few glass gems from the dollar tree and the hot glue gun. The boys had to see what an acorn would look like on one too. Yes, it's hot glued on too. lol

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Saturday, October 18, 2014

The Best Magnetic Dress Up Sets for Boys and Girls

We love magnetic dress up sets at my house! My twin boys have been playing with them for several years now. My girls loved magnetic dress up when they were younger too. Magnetic dolls/people/animals are not just for girls anymore, that's a thing of the past!

Magnetic dress up sets are great!

They are a lot of fun, and can keeps kids busy when you need them to be busy for a few minutes. They are great for busy bags/, for in the car, at a restaurant, or even at home while Mom is cooking dinner. Such a great distraction!!!

T.S.Shure and Melissa and Doug brands are the best! All of the sets are wooden! The nicest thing about them, is that you can mix and match between sets. Here are some of our favorites!

See all of our favorites HERE

Magnetic Safety Patrol

Magnetic Friends

Magnetic Dolls

Magnetic Bears

Magnetic Animals (not dress up but can be used with dress up)

Frozen Magnetic

Magnetic Abby and Emma

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Friday, October 17, 2014

12 fun ways to play in the dark!

We love glow in the dark and black light play!! Here are 12 fun posts from some of our favorite glow in the dark and black light play times!

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Monday, October 13, 2014

Create your own Light Table Spielgaben

Have you heard of Spielgaben? You may have seen my blog post entitled Create your own Spielgaben for less. Spielgaben is a wooden educational loose parts toy set. I will show you how to create your very own Light Table Spielgaben set!

Basically you just need to gather the right components, and you may already have some of them at home already. You will need letter and number building pieces, some nice light table blocks, some stringing beads and lacing for them, some nice unique building sets, some unique transparent balls that don't roll, some plastic cocktail stirrers, some window blocks, some circular stringing rings, some plastic bracelets, a clear geoboard and rubber bands, and some translucent pattern blocks.

Here are lots of awesome suggestions!

Learning Resources Viewthru Geometric Solids

Light Table pattern blocks

Rainbow Crystal Cubes

Guidecraft Rainbow Blocks 20 piece set

Crystal Bracelets

Chenille craft transparent stringing rings

Orbit Ball mini 12 pack

pony bead craft lace

The animal game pieces from Mancala for Kids

Learning Resources color paddles

Glitter pony beads

Quercetti Tubation transparent set

Learning Resources Letter and Number Construction
The small bucket of letter building pieces is not translucent and is completely perfect for mimicking a key piece of Spielgaben for your DIY Spielgaben Set!