Do your kids like playing shops? This fun activity to design your own printable play money will add a whole new level of fun and learning to your kids dramatic play. Ever since we set up our baker’s shop to sell our five current buns, playing shop has been big business around here. It makes […]
Collaborative Doodle Drawings and a Sleep In for Me
I didn’t want to get up the other morning. I knew I wasn’t going to want to get up when I dragged myself to bed at around 1am. So Night-owl Me did Morning Me a favour and left this set up for my kids… A huge, communal, doodle picture to colour and add to. I […]
Kid-made Bunting
During the school holidays I am always looking for something that all four of my kids can do together. Something that is interesting enough to entice the nine year olds, fun for the 6 year old, and easy enough for the three year old to join in without driving everyone insane. Often we rely on […]
Origami Star Boxes with Printable Origami Paper
“I want to make that” she said, holding up a picture torn from an ancient magazine. It was an origami box, and I figured it was a pretty cool school holiday project so we set about looking for simple instructions online, and finding some paper. Of course we didn’t have any lovely origami paper, we […]
Using What You’ve Got – A quick and easy invitiation to play.
We have had some great fun creating elaborate imaginative play set ups and fancy sensory activities. When I have the time and the motivation I love creating these kinds of activities for my kids. But I don’t always have the time, or the motivation, or the equipment, or the space, or the energy. Sometimes it’s […]
Five Currant Buns Song Puppets – Free Printable
Make these free printable five currant buns song puppets, and sing along with us to one of our favourite preschool counting songs! I have gotten so many requests to make this set of printable puppets, so, after checking and double checking that it was in fact ‘currant’ not ‘current’ I whipped up this batch of […]
Creativity is Contagious…
I do lots of creative activities with my kids because I enjoy them as much as my kids do, but I know that sometimes, doing something arty can seem overwhelming, or difficult, but it doesn’t have to be. I am a big believer that art for kids should be easy. You don’t need to do […]
Printing with Nuts and Bolts and Screws
I cleaned out the laundry cabinet that has been sitting on our back deck for the past two years. It seems I may actually get a laundry in the near future and the cabinet made it’s way back inside, but not before I removed piles of random junk from inside it. Among the junk I […]
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