I love the recent popularity of play car washes. There are so many ways to “do” a play car wash so I thought a car wash roundup was in order!
I didn’t want to restrict this week to just cars so we’ll call it vehicle week!


You know you love noisemakers! The cup acts as an amplifier for the vibrations you make with a wet paper towel and string making it sound sort of like a chicken!
Real horseshoes are banned in this house from an incident with a large heavy horseshoe, a mom who shall remain nameless, and slippery sunscreen hands. We decided to make our own and came up with a version that could possibly be played indoors as well!

This post is sponsored by Estes. We are so excited to share our latest “unplug and build” activity this time with Estes! If you aren’t familiar with them…
Taking the simple straw rockets we expanded a bit to make our own since the straws we buy at the store don’t come with paper wrappers.


This is SO fun your kids will want to do it over and over.
If you want to have your own pirate party ( or just have cute lunch bags for field trips) I thought I’d share with you my printed pirate bag file.

We have a quick easy activity for you today that’s fun anytime especially because it makes noise. All you’ll need is a hex nut (a smaller one) and…
I saw a similar idea last summer using plastic sheeting. My problem with that is you’d die in there in 10 minutes in the desert in the summer…