Weekly Favorites for April 3, 2011

Here are my favorites for the week.
1.
Cooking with Preschoolers: Simple Tips and Recipes
Simple recipes and helpful tips for cooking with kids.

2.
Weather Discovery Tray
A creative weather discovery tray made by Mari-Ann at Counting Coconuts.

3.
How to Make a Treasure Baskets
A simple way to entertain your baby.

4.
What's in the Tub: Birds
A neat sensory tub using birds.

5.
Developmental Stages of Play-dough
An informative post about stages of playing with play-dough.

6.
The central Importance of Play
A blog post about different forms of play and how important they are.

7.
Our Best Easter Egg Crafts
A few Easter egg crafts.

8.
Gumdrop Sculptures
A fun and simple activity using gumdrops.

9.
Does it Dissolve?
A simple science experiment.

10.
Let Them Teach Themselves
A great post by Teacher Tom about letting kids teach themselves.

11.
A Spring Scavenger Hunt
A fun outside activity for spring.

12.
Fun Food Friday Happy April Fools Day
Great ideas for making real food look like treats.

13.
April Sensory Tub Spring
Another creative sensory tub made by Mari-Ann from Counting Coconuts.

14.
Adding to the Science and Nature Center in Preschool
A post on different materials that can be added to nature and science centers.

15.
Bathtub Soap Crayons
Make bath time fun with these homemade crayons.

16.
Melted Crayon Easter Eggs
A neat Easter egg craft.