Preschooler Fun

Easy Art For Kids – Marker Paints

October 11, 2011

I saw this idea to make liquid water colour paints at Artopotamus and pinned it to save for ‘one day’. Then ‘one day’ arrived as I cleaned out the art cupboard and was about to throw out all the markers that no longer worked and I suddenly remembered! I only had a couple of markers [...]

Dino Play Dough

October 4, 2011

Hardly a week goes by without play dough making an appearance at our house. Morgan just loves play dough and while the girls may groan and roll their eyes when I get it out, they almost always end up playing with it for hours as well! Yesterday we decided on dinosaurs to go with the [...]

Easy Art for Kids – Squish Painting.

September 27, 2011

School holidays are in full swing here at The Pickle Farm and it only took two days before they asked to ‘do something cool with the paints!’ Luckily I had just bought two big rolls of paper from Ikea and had a few fun painting ideas tucked away in the back of my mind especially [...]

Sensory Play – A Tub of Bubbles

September 20, 2011

Sensory play doesn’t have to be a hugely messy activity, even if you set it up inside! Today we set up a little tub of bubbles, just for one, or maybe two! We started with a small tub and some small measuring cups, scoops and spoons that come with all the kids medication. We set [...]

Wrecking Apart!

September 13, 2011

There is nothing better than taking something to pieces, opening it up and checking out what’s inside. I’m not sure why it’s so fun but I enjoy ‘wrecking apart’ things as much as my big kids do! There’s not much to it, just find an old computer or stereo or piece of old, broken, no [...]

Dinos and Packaging – Wordless Wednesday

September 7, 2011

It seems I am not the only one excited by today’s delivery!

Play Dough with Straws and Toothpicks

September 6, 2011

My big boy loves play dough. I mean, he REALLY loves play dough. We have more commercially made play dough accessories than you can poke a stick at. I am not sure why you’d bother poking a stick at play dough accessories, but if you did, you’d have trouble poking all of ours. Those play [...]

Easy Art for Kids – Painting on Foil

August 30, 2011

We haven’t had our painting easel out for a long time. It takes up a lot of space, and we don’t have much of that at the moment. But Morgan was keen to do ‘something special’… ‘not just boring old painting’ so I dragged the easel in and surprised him by setting up something really special!

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Printable Love or Lunch Box Notes.
February 3, 2012

I am back making school lunches and next week my big boy will need lunch for kinder (preschool) too, thankfully only once a week, but all of them want to know when I will start leaving notes in their lunch boxes! So I think it’s time for some new lunch box notes. I am not [...]

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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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