Learning through Play
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Sensory Tray: Lentils and Rice
.It was almost an emergency because the toddlers were getting bored and reckless! I found half a bag of rice and some lentils and dumped them in the tray with...
Painting Rocks
If you don't have this in your area then start it! Find some rocks and paint them then hide them in public places. People of all ages (but mostly kids!)...
Sink Slime
Its super fun and easy to clean up. If you’re wary of messy play, try setting your little one up in the sink. Sinks are often in easy to clean...
Fun Painting Activity
Draw pictures, patterns or write words on white paper with white crayon
Paint the page with watercolours to reveal messages as if by magic
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Play Dough Play Idea
Make multiple colours of dough and mix them together to experiment with colour. If you start with red, blue and yellow, you can make purple, green and orange!Then you can...
How to Feed-in Language when your Child is really into Vehicles
If your kid really enjoys plying with vehicles, it can be really hard to model language. Because it is so mechanical, all I do is drive and drum and crash,...
Valentine's Day Heart Art 💌
How we made a sparkly heart-art-canvas You will need crepe paper and a canvas Cut a square of each colour Fold in half and cut out half a heart shape...
Fine Motor Hack: Cutting and Sticking ✂️
Tape paper to the tables so your little one can focus on learning how to use their scissors. Draw lines on the paper for them to try and follow, or...
Christmas Cutting
This afternoon I involved August in my Christmas wrapping by letting him practice his scissor skills. These are just kids scissors I picked up in the stationary section. He was...
Minimal Effort Messy Play
When toys get boring - you have to get creative. Instagram is full of glossy images of the perfect play set ups for kids but in reality - they don't...
Pouring Practice
I sometimes think mums feel overwhelmed about doing activities with their kids when insta accounts show perfectly colourful wooden play set ups with posh resources and autumnal lighting 😂 Reality...
Outdoor Painting
Our simple play activity yesterday was some painting. I didn't want to have to worry about a big clean up so we got some warm gears on and headed outdoors....
Exploring Stickers
We're really into stickers at the moment. I even took them in my bag of tricks to entertain August on the flight to Christchurch. They're a sticky, colourful novelty and...
Autumn Art
It's free to crunch in the autumn leaves, so we've been doing loads of it. We talk about autumn every day, pointing out the bare trees and the different...
Colour Detective
August and I are sick, so I needed to come up with some super simple activities that didn’t zap energy from either of us. Colour detective was born!HOW?I found a...
Connetix Creations
We’re loving these at the moment so I had to do a post about them. Magnetic tiles are fab for so many reasons:🧐 fine motor skills - holding and manipulating...
Texture Transfer
For those of you who've wondered why there's been birdseed all over my carpet - here you go. I set up this dry sensory play experience for August and gave...
Tidy-up Tongs
I’m sure you’ve all seen tongs used in sensory play and Montessori activities to develop a child’s fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. I’m here to remind you it doesn’t...
Masking Tape Motorway
No road? No problem! Just make one out of tape! Auggie is showing more interest in driving his vehicles. In the absence of one of those road map rugs, I...
Dolls are for everyone
If you think dolls are just for girls then you’re very sadly mistaken. Men care for babies. Men are dads. Men teach children. Men work in kindergartens. Men are nurses....