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School Holiday Activities: Bounceable Bubbles
SO EASY ⬇️My kids LOVED this.All you need is:• Warm water• Sugar• Washing up liquid• Gloves• A bubble wand (or make your own from straws or pipe cleaners or string).Everyone...
Super Activity: Gnome Quest
Super Activity ⬇️Had ZERO IDEA this was on in the school holidays but it was a happy accident that we ended up in the Gnome Quest today. We had been...
School Holiday Activities: Measuring Monsters
Play is learning ⬇️Measuring might not sound cool or fun to us but for kids, understanding the sheer size of some of their favourite animals can be such a WOW...
School Holiday Activities: Number Bounce
My kids are obsessed with numbers at the moment so we devised this game today.It’s great because you can modify it to meet each child’s needs.☀️my nearly 3 year old...
School Holiday Activities: Lemonade Stand
Water play wins ⬇️Sick kids? Set this up.I set up this lemonade-stand play without fail when my kids are sick because it encourages them to drink more water!! Especially if...
School Holiday Activities: Park Ranger Adventure
Plan for tomorrow ⬇️We're trying to spend more hours outdoors and often get trapped in the same routines of the same local parks.Today we lured the kids up into the...
School Holiday Activities: Torchy Treasure Hunt
Try this ⬇️Kids love a treasure hunt and this is such a great way to make the most out of the darker winter evenings (or those dark rooms we've all...
Cute Christmas Crafting
“Sparkling snowflakes in the making! ❄️🎄Crafting these pipe cleaner and bead snowflake decorations isn’t just about decking the halls—it’s a fun way to boost hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills...
Ready, Set, Go! Ramp Games for Language Development
Get your baby talking.👶Ramp games spark children’s interest because there’s so much anticipation!When will the ball drop?How fast will it roll?Where will it land?It’s the kind of thing they want...
The easiest sensory-play idea that you can do anywhere
What is sensory play?It's any play that stimulates the senses.Look no further than just getting outside.Finding time to get outside is an instant stress reliever for both you and your...
Easy water-play idea
Messy is best. And there’s a reason.Early childhood centres aren’t just getting kids messy for the sake of it. We know that messy, explorative play like this is fantastic for...
Visual Recipes for Children
I love making recipes into visual recipes so that August can read them himself with my support. Visual recipes are a great way to expose your child to text, fostering...
Teach and Learn: Shop Play Edition
Is there anything better than playing shops? I don't think so. Watch me play with Etta (age 20 months) and keep an interaction going. Remember, children learn language best through...
Role Play to Real Life
We're so privileged to be able to take the car wherever we need to go, but we're probably not using public transport as often as we could. Because it's not...
Treasure Hunt
We do this so often for our 3 year old - they’re so easy to throw together and the best bit is that you can use the same hunt again...
Palaeontologist Play
Quick play idea for you. You don’t have to be a top artist to draw something your kid is into in chalk! Doesn’t have to be bones - try cars...
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...
Eight Ways to Develop your Child's Speech and Language Skills on the Swings
Top tip. You should always be facing your little one when they’re swinging. Push them from the front. This creates more face to face time so you can have fun...
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,...