Glue Gun

Here’s a super fun, active, & collaborative art project for toddlers & preschool age kids:   giant marble painting!  It’s a great way for kids to improve their fine and gross motor skills as well as their coordination!  It looks easy, but it’s pretty tricky getting those big slippery marbles and balls dipped into the…

Are you eating enough fiber?  Well reach for that healthy oatmeal tomorrow morning because we have a super fun and interactive art project for toddlers and pre-schoolers that uses empty oatmeal containers! This project is very sensory (it’s loud!!!) – and is great for helping little ones develop their fine and gross motor skills &…

At small hands big art, we love to tout the virtues of ordinary household contact paper as an art medium for toddlers (available at any home goods store, with the shelf liner).  The possibilities for clean, sticky fun are endless! In the studio, we set up a giant “Sticky Face” wall, along with an all-you-can-eat…

    Soon it will be spring, that joyful time of rebirth and renewal < insert sound of birds chirping >. For some. Sadly, for beloved woodland animals like foxes, raccoons & hedgehogs, springtime means they will soon be abruptly cast to the wayside in favor of fuzzy little farm animals like bunnies, chicks, & piglets….

In keeping with our theory that you can make anything out of a box, especially if you accidentally order several thousand of them, we came up with this simple dump truck design for our toddlers! This project would work well using two recycled boxes, one smaller than the other ~ you don’t necessarily need to…

Jennifer Bryant of Small Hands Big Art shares a toy/art/craft/moto skills development project. How will you use this craft?

I know y’all are gonna feel really bad for me when I share how tough my adjustment has been these past few days from beach vacation to real life.  So, needless to say, it’s Tuesday night and I just now realized… it’s been two darn weeks since I’ve shared with y’all the going ons of…

Jennifer Bryant of Small Hands Big Art shares a fun craft to do with the family that turns into a DIY keepsake you’ll cherish.

Hope everyone had a fantastic Fourth of July.  For those of you that have “respectable” careers and have to go into the office, my apologies.  When I was in corporate America, I always felt it was cruel to give employees the 4th off, but then make them come back to work on the 5th after…

I’m mixing it up this week.  I usually go over everyone’s post for the week and tell you what you’re missing.  Well, let’s just cut to the chase: you’re missing some good stuff.  To see the killer blog posts by my fellow Chiquita Moms, visit: http://www.chiquitamoms.com/category/relate/. But, I realized when I began to pull the content…

When I was a kid we lived in the Bay Area and would often go to the Exploratorium.  The Exploratorium was like Charlotte’s Discovery Place on steroids, way ahead of it’s time, and I can remember with fascination every single interactive exhibit. There was a massive – for lack of what else to call it…

I’m pretty darn excited that summer is here.  When I think about summer days, I think back to my childhood.  I have so many fond memories of growing up in Charlotte, where I now have the opportunities to raise my kids.  I hope they share some of the same experiences that I did and make…