Mountain West Mama

 Valentine's Day Inspired Sensory Bin * This post contains affiliate links to some of the products that I use and love. This means that if you shop directly through the links, your purchase supports my blog at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support! I recently had been searching the internet for a toddler curriculum for my 18 month old and came across, My First School Curriculum , by Kid Activities with Alexa . This curriculum is perfect for littles ages 13-24 months old. It has daily activities to work on language development and includes sensory activities, gross motor, fine motor skill, and art activities to learn through play! There are 12 units and they include holiday activities. Since Valentine's Day is near I decided to try the Valentine's Day Inspired Sensory Bin with my little one. In the guide it gives you a list of materials that you will need for each activity and then a description to go along with the activity. I took some ideas from the curric

   8 Maternity Must Haves * This post contains affiliate links to some of the products that I use and love. This means that if you shop directly through the links, your purchase supports my blog at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support! This is my second pregnancy. I have thought about items that I have really appreciated and made a list of my favorite maternity must haves for all of you pregnant mamas. Every pregnancy varies person to person, but here is a great starting point. Prenatal Vitamin Prenatal vitamin's are a must! My doctor suggested that I start taking them before I conceived. With my first pregnancy I started taking them shortly before I got pregnant. With this pregnancy I was still taking them from when I started the first time. For me I need a gummy vitamin. I know that is not the case for everyone. My first pregnancy I took Vitafusion Prenatal DHA & Folic Acid Gummy Vitamins . With this pregnancy I am taking Hello Bello's Prenatal + DHA Gumm

  Valentine's Day with Little One’s * This post contains affiliate links to some of the products that I use and love. This means that if you shop directly through the links, your purchase supports my blog at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support! Make Heart Shaped Breakfast You can use a heart shaped cookie cutter to turn everyday breakfast into a Valentine’s Day treat. Use the cookie cutter to cut everyday toast into heart shaped fun. Or one of my favorites, heart shaped pancakes. I do my best at making the batter into heart shapes. Random Acts of Kindness Help your little on think of ways to spread kindness. Help a sibling with a chore, leave a note for a loved one, create a Valentine for a friend, bake a treat for someone. There are so many ways to spread kindness.  Homemade Play Dough Homemade play dough is such a fun activity. It would be perfect for Valentine's Day. You and your little one could even make pink and/or red play dough to go along with the th

  Simple Flour Play Dough Recipe * This post contains affiliate links to some of the products that I use and love. This means that if you shop directly through the links, your purchase supports my blog at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support! Recipe: 1 cup of flour 1/4 cup of salt 1/2 cup warm water      Optional: Food coloring 1 teaspoon of coconut oil JavaScript is currently disabled in this browser. Reactivate it to view this content. During these long winter months I am running out of activities to do with my toddler. We try to get outside as often as we can, but sometimes it’s too cold! I found this simple play dough recipe while endlessly surfing the web late at night. I added the food coloring and coconut oil option. The food coloring gives it a fun edge and the coconut oil makes it so that it’s not so drying for your hands. It actually kind of moisturizes them. I made the dough while my little one napped and then we worked with it when she woke up. The first th