Snow is fun but even the best snow bunnies like to come inside.
Here are some easy stamps you can make with your kids where it’s nice and warm (with a mug of hot cocoa). No need for a run to the store, these are items you may have around the house.
Toilet paper rolls
Easy Fireworks Painting
Danya Banya
Fringe some left over toilet paper rolls to create cool fireworks.
Toilet Paper Roll Stamps
Mama Papa Bubba
These simple stamps are easy as pie, and you can get more than one stamp out of each roll too.
Toilet Paper Roller
Who’s Who and Who’s New
Use foam stickers or try string, bubble wrap or textured fabric.
Corks and bottle tops
Wine Cork Stamps
Design Mom
Go ahead and open another bottle… for the sake of the children.
Sponge Painting
Boy Mama Teacher Mama
Use bottle caps to keep hands clean(er)
Bottle Top Stamps
Paging Fun Moms
These use foam stickers and bottle tops to make a bunch of cute stamps.
Cherry Blossom Art
Alpha Mom
Or, just use the whole bottle.
Food
Apple and Celery Stamps
A Beautiful Mess
So cute you might use them for yourself (check out the gorgeous celery stamped scarf!)
Okra Stamps
This is Love Forever
I used to love celery stalk stamps, but okra may be the most adorable stamp I’ve ever seen.
Potato Stamps
Homemade Serenity
The potato stamp is a classic, but the way she cuts the pattern out of this potato stamp is brilliant.
Junk Around the House
Pipe Cleaner Snowflake Stamps
Sugar Aunts
Perfect when you’re stuck inside on a snow day.
Spool Stamps
Richmondmom
We made these DIY stamps last year and found they are perfect for little toddler hands.
Get creative with stuff around the house
Play Based Learning
Got some old junk? Gather up buttons, foam, toothpicks, wire, string… whatever you got an have a cool stamp competition. You might come up with some really creative patterns!
Have fun stamping and show us what you made!
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Find the perfect camp designed with your preschooler in mind. PreK kids can enjoy art, math, dance, theatre and outdoor adventures with these fantastic summer camps in Richmond, VA
Baseball Camp – Flying Squirrels & Jr. FUNNdamentals Camp
The Flying Squirrels offer three baseball camps throughout the 2015 season! Baseball Camps Sessions 1 and 2 are both three-day camps for boys & girls ages 7-14. Session 1 is held on June 23rd, 24th, & 25th. Session 2 is held on August 4th, 5th, & 6th. A Jr. Squirrels FUNNdamentals Camp is held on July 8th & 9th for boys & girls ages 4-8. All camps include instruction from current Flying Squirrels players and coaches, lunch each day, and 4 tickets to a Squirrels home game. Megan Angstadt at 804-359-3866 x325 megan.angstadt@
Brilliant Summer at St. Catherine’s
The campus at St. Catherine’s will be transformed into a unique experience for boys and girls from 3 year olds through rising grade 12…and even a little something for adults.
Camp Blue Sky at Rainbow Station
Camp Blue Sky is divided into three divisions according to the ages of our campers. While each division is involved in our traditional day camp program, all of our activities are designed specifically to meet the developmental needs of the campers in each division. Within each division, campers are put into small groups based on age and gender.
Charlottesville Ballet Summer Dance Camps is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit dance school that offers Summer Camps for students ages 3-10 years old and Summer Classes for ages 3-Adult. Camp classes are divided by age (4-6 yrs, 5- yrs, & 7-10yrs), which encourages each child to reach his or her highest potential and really enjoy their experience.
CommuniKids Summer Camp is a wonderful way to introduce your child to a new language or support language acquisition. Our language-Immersion summer camp for ages 2 to 10 combines traditional summer fun with an educational experience.
CORE Kids Academy
This summer kids can flip, fly, swing, roll, and laugh with CORE Kids Academy! Your child will have fun movin’ and groovin’ during fun gymnastics and movement. Camps with lots of movement and fun.
First Baptist Church Preschool
Presenting the 28th annual SUMMER SOLUTION! Our camp features veteran teaching staff, outdoor playgrounds and an indoor gym facility, representing one of the best values in the area. For children ages 9 months (by May 26, 2015) through rising kindergarteners. Please visit our website for more information.
The Goddard School®
The Goddard School’s summer camp curriculum incorporates STEAM learning (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) into exciting, one-of-a-kind and fun experiences for your child every day! We offer a broad range of programs and mini-camps to pique the interest and curiosity of every child.
The founding principle of The Goddard School’s curriculum is that children experience the deepest, most genuine learning when they are having fun. We have integrated this philosophy into every aspect of our summer camp to foster play-based learning opportunities both inside and outside the classroom.
We’ve created a variety of camps so your children can find a program they will absolutely love. To discover how Goddard can make this summer your child’s best learning experience yet, call 1-800-GODDARD or visit our website.
Good Shepherd Passport to Summer Fun Camp
A new adventure awaits campers each week as they journey to the Wild West…take an African Safari…play chef for the day…take part in star-spangled parade and more during each themed week! Good Shepherd Child Development Center in Midlothian.
Good Shepherd Episcopal School Summer at Good Shepherd Episcopal School.
Jessica Morgan School of Dance
Summer Dance Camps, Intensive and More! Camp, Ages 3 – 11:Students enrolled in our 4 day dance camps will explore ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, and musical theater. The final day of each camp week concludes with an in studio performance at 12:00 pm for parents to enjoy. Summer Performance “Elements”, Ages 6 and up.
Lakeside Presbyterian Preschool Summer Adventure Series
Registration is OPEN. Weekly camps.
Lewis Ginter – Green Adventures Summer Camps
Each week campers explore the Garden to learn more about the plant kingdom and their connection to it. Keepsake crafts, field studies, garden games, and botanical snacks are all part of daily activities. A week-long day camp program for children 4 yrs old – 5th grade. Register by phone at 804.262.9887.
Melody Magic Music Studio
Join us this summer for our Summer of Music! Your children will sing, play, and dance their way through our 2 months of classes! It’s so much fun, they will never realize they are learning and growing along the way! Weekly classes for ages 0-7 years.
Richmond Montessori Enrichment Summer Camp Programs
Camps for toddlers, primary camps, elementary camps, and upper/elementary-middle school camps.
Richmond Waldorf School
Our nature-based, homespun program will excite the imagination with creative explorations in baking, gardening, making music and singing, crafting, tye-dyeing and water play!! We engage in activities to stimulate the head, hands and heart, from crafting beautiful letters to performing simple plays with live music and whimsical costumes.
Romp n’ Roll
The officially-fun, officially-famous Romp n’ Roll Summer Camp will run at all Richmond locations from May 26 through September 4 AND at the Children’s Museum of Richmond Central and Chesterfield locations from June 1 through August 14. Both camps are for children ages 2 through 5 years, no potty training required. Our daily schedule is action-packed with “kid-tested, Rompy-approved” sessions including incredible gym, art and music activities! It’s like a big kids’ camp on training wheels; all the fun, learning, and excitement but without the poison ivy!
Sabot Summer
A Sabot Summer is a series of one-week camps driven by the natural curiosity of children. Each summer workshop provides children, ages 4 – 8, with engaging opportunities for exploring and developing skills, sparking new ideas and interests as well as fostering imagination and enthusiasm for the world around them. A Sabot Summer honors the individuality of children and all their intelligences.
SPARC summer camps
The School of Performing Arts in the Richmond community – SPARC – has provided incredible performing arts experience to students in the Richmond area for over 30 years. SPARC has full-day and 
half-day camps for students ages 4 to 18. Our summer camps are filled with singing, acting, dancing, friends and fun! With camps from June to August, every student can find a camp to make them shine. Cheryl Lage of RichmondMom.com wrote in her article, ‘Fanning the SPARC’: “As a part-time (9-3:30 daily) working-in-an-office mama, the 
timing seemed ideal . . .confidence levels rose. Comfort acting, singing and dancing translates well to increased ease in presenting oral reports, speaking at assemblies, conveying the morning announcements. Thank you, SPARC. We’ll be back…probably this summer!” Voted Style Weekly’s Family Favorites Winner for 2013!
The Children’s Museum of Richmond (CMoR)
A weekly, half or full day camp, for children 2 ½ – 6 years old. Children participate in a safe, noncompetitive, nurturing experience where learning is disguised as fun.
Tuckaway Child Development Centers have plenty of fun, learning, and excitement for kids. And who doesn’t love visiting Washington DC, Mexico, France, Italy, Russia, and many more amazin destinations during summer camp?
Young Chef’s Academy
Spring camp information listed for ages 3+. Summer camp information coming soon.
Virginia Rep’s Children’s Theatre at Willow Lawn is offering a FREE class on Monday, October 20th, 2014.
This six week series allows preschoolers to experience books in a whole new way. Each Monday kids will take a multi-sensory journey through a favorite work of children’s literature using age appropriate process-based creative drama. The one hour program is designed for children 3 1/2 – 5 years old and is an ideal introduction to the magical world of Theatre.
The next 6 week session begins November 17th.
Free Preschool Story Drama Demo Class
October 20th, 10am and 1 pm
At Virginia Rep’s Children’s Theatre at Willow Lawn
Complimentary Coffee will be available for parents to enjoy as they wait in the lobby.
Sing and dance with Hope Harris and the Cousins Jamboree
As always, come say hello to us at the Richmondmom.com table! We’ll have treats and crafts for the kids and we always love chatting with you.
Don’t forget this event is FREE!
MOMMY & ME (And Daddy Too!)
2nd Wednesday of Each Month
10:00am–11:30am Willow Lawn Plaza
See you there!
]]>Virginia Rep is offering a special six week Story Drama class designed for children 3 1/2 – 5 years old.
Children will have the opportunity to make their favorite stories come alive in a multi-sensory journey guided by professional artist-educators.
Each one hour class explores a different work of children’s literature and dives into the store through age appropriate, process-based creative drama.
And while the kids are taking a romp into the pages of their favorite story, bring your own book and enjoy complimentary coffee in the lobby.
]]>Story Drama classes will be offered on Mondays for one hour in the mornings at 10:00 or afternoons at 1:00
Session 1: October 6-November 10
Session 2: November 17-December 22
Session 3: January 12-Febraury 16
Session 4: February 23-March 30
Session 5: April 13-May 18
West End – sign in to classes or register online
Do you love to play games with your kids? Do you yearn for interacting in a fun way with your child that does not involve a screen? Have you have played every board game in your house and want something a little, well, less “board” and more “brain”?
Here is a list of board-less games that require no batteries. All you need is your own brain, a partner with a brain, and perhaps your hands. Let the games begin!
- Guess the Vehicle My son made this one up! Describe a vehicle (dump truck, tractor, mail truck, ice cream truck, bus, train, etc.) and the other person guesses what it is! It could also work with animals, insects, food items, Disney princesses… whatever your child is interested in!
- Alphabet Animals Starting with “A”, name an animal whose name starts with that letter. Each person takes a turn until you can’t think of any more. Again, this could work with a variety of items, like Disney characters and words, kitchen items, toys in your house, etc.
- Rhyme Time The youngest person starts by saying a word. Going in a circle, everybody says a word that rhymes with that word. Somebody can ‘pass’ if they can’t think of one. When you can’t think of any more, pick a new word.
- Name That Tune Hum or sing a song that the guessers / kids would likely know and they have to guess what the song is.
- Let’s Tell a Story The person with a “good idea” starts a story with “Once upon a time.” If nobody can think of a beginning, the adult starts. Going in a circle, each person continues the story with their own twist. Somebody can always “pass” if they can’t think of the next part of the story. (A good rule? No “potty” plot twists or words.)
- What’s for Lunch? Each person makes up a meal using food items that either rhyme or start with the same two letters (alliteration). For example, “For dinner, I want to have beautiful beans with beets and bologna.” Spice it up by picking a letter that everybody has to use.
- Story Math Problems The adult makes up a math problem that the kids have to solve – the sillier the better. For example, “Martha was eating beans for dinner. She had 10 beans on her plate and the dog ate three! How many beans were left?”
- Secret Shopper Before you start the game, you decide who is the Shop Keeper and what the Shoppers will buy (the Item). For example, a Pet Store and a Collar. The goal is for the Shopper(s) to buy the Item without ever saying the name of the Item. To spice it up, the Shopkeeper can also decide 2-3 items that the Shopper cannot say, like “dog, blue and walk.”
- Climb the Green Tree Players take turns making sentences that have double-letters in them. Like: “I see the Green Tree.” Or “I put on my boot and heard a boom.”
- I Spy This classic is always a hit. Pick something in the room that’s a specific color and say, “I spy something ___green___ with my little eye.” The guesser has to guess what the item is.
- Alphabet Search This is a good game for the car or waiting room. Looking at signs, magazines, books, and other objects with writing on them that are around you, see if you can find all the letters in the alphabet.
- What is that cloud? Again, a classic game that also inspires wonders and awe at the natural beauty in the sky! Look at clouds together and ask each other, “What does that cloud look like to you?”
- Pack Grandma’s Suitcase This is a great idea from BeaFunMum. “Pick an item that starts with A, next person B, C, etc. Each person in the line repeats all the previous items until you can’t remember anymore.”
- Virtual Hide and Seek From USA Today: “Pick a place in your house in which to hide, and imagine that you are there. You are allowed to be as small as a mouse in this game. Have children take turns asking questions like, “Are you in the kitchen?” Let the kids work as a team to discover that you are hiding in the silverware drawer or sitting on top of the remote control.”
- Twenty Questions What are you? Animal, plant or mineral? Bigger than a bread box? Pick something the kids are familiar with and let them ask questions (kids are good at that!) to figure out what you are.
- Human Dictionary Take turns making nonsense words, and crafting definitions for them. Kerpuzzle? The act of messing up a finished puzzle!
- Riddles Verbal riddles and puzzles are always fun, and can be adapted for any age. Challenge yourself to make some up using simply the power of your brain. For example, “What is deep underground and pitch black dark, even in the middle of the day?” A cave! Kids LOVE guessing the answer to riddles.
- Knock-knock jokes Who doesn’t love a good knock-knock joke? Or even a not-so-good knock knock joke? Here is a list of toddler-friendly knock knock jokes from my blog. If you google “knock knock jokes” you’ll find a ton…. but make up some, and let your kids do the same! They may not make sense, but you’ll laugh anyway!
- Rock-Paper-Scissors 1…2…3…. rock beats scissors, scissors cut paper, and paper covers rock.
- Thumb Wrestling 1,2,3,4, I declare a thumb war!
]]>Like this list? Print this PDF and take it with you!
We’ll be singing songs about pet rocks, not biting our buddy and of course the presidential physical fitness test with the Diggity Dudes.
As always, come say hello to us at the Richmondmom.com table! We’ll have treats and crafts for the kids and we always love chatting with you.
Don’t forget this event is FREE!
MOMMY & ME (And Daddy Too!)
2nd Wednesday of Each Month
10:00am–11:30am Willow Lawn Plaza
See you there!
]]>If you’re tired of playing Anna (or Kristoff, or Olaf…) take your toddler to party with the folks over at Romp n’ Roll Midlothian ice palace where it’s going to be all Frozen all the time.
Register here and find the event on Facebook.
