Just when I think we can’t possibly come up with a new way to play with playdough, we do! Well, my five year old play dough lover does! A cranky Morgan demanded that we play with playdough this morning… “And bits of wood.” Lucky for me we had a big batch of playdough that we […]
Our Ten Favourite Easy Painting Activities
My kids love to paint. Come to think of it I quite like to paint too, which is probably the real reason we do it so often. While I like to paint I don’t like to spend ages setting up or cleaning up fancy activities. My goal is for it to be fun and easy, […]
Imaginative Play: Bugs in a Box
Do you want to set up a cool imaginative play scene that’s a little messy, maybe a little wet, but you don’t have anything to put it in? All you need is a cardboard box and a garbage bag. For the Halloween disco at school, Izzy went as ‘bug girl’ with lots of plastic insects […]
Cutting Practice – Making Snowflakes and Sunbursts.
My big boy has had an attack of the ‘can’ts’ lately. If he can’t do something perfectly, first time, then he ‘can’t do it’ at all and often storms off or chucks a wobbly, no matter what anyone does or says. Controlling scissors has been one of his biggest ‘can’ts’. He sees the girls cutting […]
Weighing and Balancing – How to Make a Simple Balance
“I want to know if it weighs more, or the same” He demanded. “Ok, that’s easy, we’ll just weigh them” I suggested, then I remembered our kitchen scales were not packed in a box somewhere. Of course my five year old needed to do this now, not tomorrow, not in a little while… now! I […]
Fun Games You Can Play With Uno Cards
“If you have a pack of Uno cards, you’ll never be bored again!” That’s what I told my kids the other day while we were waiting at the Doctors. Even if you are by yourself there is always something fun you can do with a pack of Uno cards. So next time the kids are […]
Ten Awesome Drawing Ideas for Kids
There has been an explosion in drawing at the Pickle Farm recently. Zoe and Izzy (almost nine) have always loved to draw and will spend hours creating books, or drawing huge creations. Morgan (five) has finally found some confidence in his drawing skills and now can’t get enough of it. And Noah (two) has just […]
Easy Art For Kids – Drawing on Foil
It’s been about a year since we first painted on foil here at the Pickle Farm and the big kids request this activity over and over they love it so much. But sometimes painting is just too much… not to mention the fact that we have no space to dry the copious amounts of paintings […]
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