Learning through Play
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Indoor Sandpit
When you're stuck inside with a cold and waiting to prove you're covid free, you need to bring out the big-guns to keep a toddler from going stir crazy! Today...
Play Doh Talking
Playdoh/playdough is one of the most versatile activities for speech and language development. WHY? Because you can mould it into anything and then talk about it! So YES it's a...
Making a mark
I realised we'd painted with real paint and with ice paints but we'd never done any drawing. I'd never really given August the opportunity to draw though he's seen me...
Heuristic Handbag
I already know that your baby loves to dig around in your bag. They love holding your purse. They love fiddling with the zips. They love tipping everything out. They...
Peg Play
For a little simple, quiet, calm activity this afternoon when August was getting a bit wobbly - I cracked out the pegs. They’re not the posh wooden ones you see...
Sponge Squeeze
I picked up a car washing sponge at the weekend to give August a bit of a spongey experience!!! I'm always on about his brain being like a sponge but...
Rainbow Pasta Sensory Bin
Some sensory experiences take a big set up and clean up and I wanted a few that were easy to access and drama free. I bought two of these big...
Recycled Rainforest
Our play tray today:I grabbed handfuls of leaves from the bushes in our back garden and added the cardboard recycling that I've been hoarding. THEN I remembered that I had...
Paint and Draw Sensory Bag
I set this up quickly whilst August was sleeping. Super easy - I put paint in a ziplock bag and taped it to the window. As with all sensory bags...
Busy Board
Did anyone end up making a busy wall whilst in lockdown? I'm lucky (I think) that my partner hoards all kids of random stuff under the house so we were...
Pom Pom Caterpillar
Could have called it a tape worm but that wouldn't be all that glamorous, would it? SUPER EASY set up. Just like a sticky wall only on the table. I...
Bathroom Picasso
The bathroom is the best place to paint - the room is your canvas! Whilst I DID put an old used canvas in the bath with August today, he was...
Washing Line Dangle: The Level Up
GOSH - If you're a new follower then scroll back and see how TINY August was when we first did this activity! Back then it was to support his reaching...
Making Music 🎼
We made a whole lot of noise today. We make a lot of noise every day. Shaker toys and noisy toys are a CONSTANT in our house - they're the...
Tea Party: Imaginative Play
You might have seen that we're all about having tea parties at the moment. It's not just an excuse for me to play with the wooden toy biscuits, I promise....
Fun with Mud
WHO IS BRAVE ENOUGH?! We stepped up the mess factor today and played in mud. EVERYTHING is washable so why hold back? We rugged up and headed to the deck...
Foam Home
Errr - if you put bubble bath and water into the blender it makes foam 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️ Again - we had to mostly play indoors today otherwise I would have done...
Bubble Tray
A sensory play activity that takes 30 seconds to set up. Ideal. We did this after breakfast this morning and it was a huge hit. How?All you need is an...
Camping by Torch light
August loved playing with the torch yesterday so I thought I'd set him up with a camp to shine it in. We can't both fit under the pikler triangle or...
They see me rollin'
We continued exploring the rotation schema this afternoon by rolling our ball-pit balls down the pikler ramp. I put the kinderboard at the bottom to catch them all. We're super...