As my 4-year-old rounds the corner of her last year at home, I am definitely feeling the pressure to make sure she knows her letters and numbers before heading to Kindergarten. If you're working on this with your little one, I highly recommend this post where I list all of my favorite letter-learning resources! >> How to Teach Your Preschooler ABCs the Easy Way! Free Printable Alphabet - Letters A to Z My 4YO can be quite the stinker when it comes to focusing on "learning" in the traditional sense, so I try my best to change it up so she doesn't get Keep Reading
Free Printable Snowflake Coloring Pages to Print Out
Grab these free printable snowflake coloring pages now for some simple wintertime coloring fun! Just click on any individual image below to immediately download the design you want. Print out as many copies as you'd like on your home printer. Enjoy! Just about every day my kids ask me to print some sort of coloring page for them. It’s usually a request based around the most recent special occasion or holiday. Well, yesterday it snowed ever so slightly for a few minutes early in the morning. Just barely any snow, but enough to get everyone excited. :) So of Keep Reading
Bursting Blossoms Flower Coloring Page {So Pretty!}
One of the most relaxing things for me is to sit down and design printables on the computer. Lately I've been really into creating new coloring pages for my kids. Now that they know I can do it, they ask me to make new ones all the time! I just cannot get enough of these lovely printable floral coloring pages! When I started designing it, all I knew is that I wanted big, medium, and small flowers all on one page....basically an entire page full of flowers to color in! :) If I make another one, I think it would be cool to combine flowers with a rainbow or maybe even flower Keep Reading
Free Printable Rainbow Templates – Large, Medium & Small Patterns
Welcome to WhatMommyDoes! In addition to fun parenting posts, here you’ll find craft templates you can use for all sorts of projects. Today I would like to share my collection of FREE printable rainbow templates you can print out! Uses for Rainbow Patterns These black & white rainbow stencils can be used in so many kids projects and crafting applications, but here a few ways I can see them being mainly used for: Cut out the small rainbows for greeting card decorations. Flyers to hang up at school Use the extra large full page rainbow Keep Reading
300+ Disney Princess Coloring Pages for Hours of Fun!
I have two girls ages 7 and 4. They love to color. Or it might be that they LIVE to color. I don't know - all I know is they like to color A LOT and there's nothing they like to color more than Disney characters. Specifically Disney PRINCESSES. :) I'm constantly having to go online and find specific Disney princesses to print out, so I figure I'd save myself some time and round up a ton of free coloring pages for every little girl to enjoy. I hope you find this resource list as helpful as I do! Free Printable Disney Princess Coloring Pages To start, I found a Keep Reading
Lovely Heart Collection – Blank Heart Coloring Pages & Crafting Templates
Today I have something wonderful to share with you. It's a new addition to my collection of free printable heart templates. This is a single sheet of paper that prints in landscape format with several different sizes of hearts on it. Free Printable Blank Hearts Coloring Page It's free to download and can be used for so many things, from craft projects to coloring pages. I have sent it to some of my homeschooling mom friends to use with their kids as an art activity and they would be perfect to use during Sunday school. The different size hearts are Keep Reading
Free Printable Snowflake Templates – 10 Large & Small Stencil Patterns
After many requests, I finally found time to put together a free resource that’s been on my to-do list for quite some time. It's FREE snowflake templates you can print! I have my eye on this lovely snowflake punch, but for now I am going to stick to the free printables you see below. My snowflake printables are for all the moms, crafters, kids, and anyone who absolutely loves looking out the window at a lovely winter wonderland! Ya’ll know that HEARTS are my one true love. But snowflakes are a close second. :=) I hope you like these Keep Reading
Free Printable Rainbow Coloring Pages 🌈
Several days a week I print out coloring pages for my kids. Recently they asked me for pretty rainbows. So, of course, I had to make some for the blog! :) My oldest asked for a large rainbow to color and my youngest asked for lots of small rainbows to cut out and string together. I took this opportunity to create a variety of rainbows for to be used as coloring sheets as well as in all sorts of craft projects. Free Printable Rainbow Coloring Pages I hope your children like these rainbow printables as much as mine do! They'd be perfect for toddler Keep Reading
Wide Heart Templates – 4 Large Outlines on One Page
I love all kinds of hearts. But I'd say the large, wide, "fat" hearts are my favorite kind. They're just so traditional and perfect! Here is a set of wide heart outlines that print out 4 to a page. They're perfect for anytime you need a large heart for a craft project. You can use these for tracing, stenciling, coloring, and more! 4 Wide Heart Templates on One Page Print out as many of these big rounded heart templates as you'd like for any project! We like to use them as DIY heart shaped notecards as well as mini Valentine's Day or Mother's Day cards! (Click on the Keep Reading
Free Printable Dinosaur Coloring Page
My kids have been asking me for a dinosaur coloring page forever, and I'm so excited to say that I have finally have one for them (and you!). :) My youngest (3 years old and ALL BOY) is obsessed with dinosaurs. Second only to his 2-year-old cousin who won't even use his hands at the dinner table because dinosaurs don't eat with their hands. LOL Here's a cute dinosaur coloring sheet for all the dino lovers in your family! Free Printable Dinosaur Coloring Page To print out this coloring page for yourself, simple click on the image below to pull it up on DropBox. It's in Keep Reading
7 Fun Summer Activities for Families with Young Children
Thank you so much to Aflac for sponsoring this post. I love my sponsors….they make all my blogging dreams possible! The purpose of this post is two-fold. First, to give you some fun ideas for summertime family fun. And second, to give you information you need to make informed insurance decisions for your family. Having fun is wonderful, but it's also nice to do it with peace of mind that you're covered in case of emergency. 7 Fun Summer Activities for Families with Young Children I love having fun with my family. I have 3 little ones (ages 7, 5, and 3) and worry constantly about them Keep Reading
Simple Summer Fun ~ Mud Pie Playdate
This is a sponsored post written on behalf of Banana Boat®. All opinions are mine! Ya'll know I love a good playdate. We have playdates for all occasions around here - to celebrate holidays, to celebrate the start of a season, really for any reason! This week we had one of my very favorite summertime playdates - a MUD PIE PLAYDATE! Mud pie playdates are perfect for just about any child who still loves playing in the mud, but they are especially great for preschoolers. They're adventurous enough to get right in there and start making mud pies, but not so young you'll worry about them Keep Reading
ABC Throwing Game
I am always looking for creative ways to teach my kids their letters. My middle child doesn't like the traditional method of sitting down to learn (we always say that she doesn't stop moving except when she sleeps!). So we've done lots of different learning methods with her to varying degrees of success. The two best ways we've found to teach her the alphabet are letting her watch this video and reinforcing it with fun games like the one below. ABC Throwing Game - Fun Way to Practice the Alphabet It's so easy to put together the ABC throwing game,anyone can do it. Here's Keep Reading
Easy Homemade Playdough Recipe
I just uncovered the oddest thing - a TON of pictures I took for a blog post that I meant to publish last fall....and then completely forgot about it! I can see why - for some reason I have a bajillion photos illustrating the process. Apparently I was delirious! Seeing as how most of my blog posts are WORD heavy. :) So, without further ado, here is a pictorial of a homemade playdough recipe I cooked with my 4-year-old daughter including a recipe card about half way down the page. It was seriously soooo easy to make and lasted a REALLY long time. I think we made this in October/November, Keep Reading
Free Printable Big Hero 6 Coloring Pages
Are your kids as crazy about the Disney movie Big Hero 6 as mine are? If so, then you will love this collection of printables. I couldn't find the official Disney Big Hero 6 coloring pages, so these are mostly realistic artistic interpretations of the movie's characters like Hiro, Baymax, Fred, Gogo, Honey Lemon, and Wasabi. Free Big Hero 6 Printable Coloring Pages Big Hero 6 Coloring Sheets - Classy Mommy offers a nice collection that includes all the main characters. The only character that seems to be missing is the movie's villian, Dr. Callaghan. Baymax Coloring Pages & Keep Reading