Activities for kids

2011 Christmas Printable Series – Christmas Letter Writing Set.

November 28, 2011

free printable christmas letter writing set

My girls don’t like Santa. They never have, and I’m beginning to think they never will. These days, at a very grown up eight years of age, they can keep themselves together when they walk past a giant blow up Santa in a shop, but no amount of lollies can bribe them to get any [...]

Fusible Beads and a Kids’ Crafternoon Give Away.

November 24, 2011

Have you ever tried crafting with fusible beads? I’d seen packets of Hama beads in our local toy shop, but I never really knew what they were until Hardie Grant sent my kids and I copies of the two new Kid’s Crafternoon Books. The Beading book features little birdy earrings made from fusible beads on [...]

Easy Art For Kids – Paper Dolls, and Boats, and Flowers…

November 22, 2011

Some days you need to pull out something magical. Something that will wow your kids into submission and get them all sitting quietly doing instead of running around the house fighting. The older my kids get, the fewer of these tricks I have left, but the other day, with rain induced anarchy threatening to take [...]

Three Jelly Fish Printable Puppets!

November 17, 2011

I’ve been getting lots of requests for another set of printable puppets, so I asked my kids what I should make and after a lot of crazy suggestions (does anyone know a Yoda song?) we finally settled on jelly fish, three of them! Three Jelly Fish is a favourite counting song around here. We like [...]

Play Dough Patterns

November 15, 2011

Yep, I’m blogging about play dough again! I am collecting quite a few blog posts about play dough ideas and activities. It’s a good thing I like playing with dough as much as my big boy does. The small boy is even starting to take some interest in the activity. He’s had a few tastes [...]

5 Fab Free Audio Books for Kids.

November 12, 2011

My big kids love listening to audio books. We listen in the car, on ipods while waiting at appointments, and while falling asleep at night. We have a small selection of audio books on CD and have borrowed CDs from the library, but there is an amazing selection of spoken stories online, many of them [...]

Sensory Play – A Tub Full of Seeds

November 8, 2011

I’d been saving up this activity for when I really needed to pull out something special. After a particularly bad day last week with lots of yelling (by the kids and me) I knew that time has come… I quietly got out two tubs, a couple of containers, funnels and some scoops I’d been saving [...]

Getting Started with Activities for your Kids – Guest Post from Hands On As We Grow

October 31, 2011

I’m taking some time off from my blog this week, and inviting a few guests to write for me. My first guest post is from the very ‘hands on’ Mum, Jamie from Hands On : As We Grow! How do you start doing activities with your toddler or preschooler? I started hands on activities with [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Printable Christmas Cheer
December 14, 2011

We are in need of a little brightness around here, and some Christmas decorations that Noah can’t pull down and destroy… Click on any of the above images to download an A4 (letter sized) printable poster to add some Christmas cheer. Or shrink them down and print them onto cards and share the joy. Check [...]

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2011 Christmas Printable Series – Print and Fold Gift Boxes.
December 12, 2011

I think I am done with my Christmas shopping…. hopefully… maybe. We still have a few hand made gifts to finish off but I don’t think I need to go near another shopping centre (well except for food) till after Christmas. So now that the gift are all organised I need to wrap them. This [...]

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2011 Christmas Printable Series – Jar Labels and a Strawberry Jam Recipe.
December 5, 2011

Lots of rain + some sunshine = bucket loads of strawberries! Over the past few weeks we have had strawberries coming out of our ears. We have made muffins, and smoothies and cupcakes, and pie and we’ve eaten so many fresh strawberries I am actually kinda over them (I never thought that would happen), but [...]

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