Joining in with Childhood101’s We Play series today. ‘Car World’ was recently constructed in my living room…. At first it was just a line up of cars, then it became some roads, then a bridge which, with the return of the Big Girls from school, turned into a ramp that flew cars off the table […]
We Play… With Old Technology!
We’re back for another week of Childhood 101’s We Play! This time it is the big girls who are playing… with old technology! We dragged out the old typewriter after school today. When we were fist given the typewriter about a year ago, the girls were fascinated by how it worked. They immediately got the […]
Paint Big!
What do you do when you get some really big bits of cardboard after an Ikea purchase, but they are not in box form and there is only two of them so all attempts at making a cubby fail miserably? You paint BIG, that’s what you do! Ikea is also a good resource for drawing […]
What Can We Do Today? Blow Painting.
What with wrecked backs and sick kids and crossing off number one on my list I’d totally forgotten to blog this fun blow painting activity that we tried way back in the term 3 holidays! You’ll Need – Watered down paint, food colouring or liquid water colours. A cup or container for each colour. A […]
What Can We Do Today? Bubble Painting!
It’s third term holidays here and since I promised both myself and my kids that we’d do some painting, yesterday we got busy with bubble painting! You’ll need – Watered down paint, food colouring or liquid water colours mixed with a little detergent. A container for each colour. Straws (a couple for each child unless […]
Draw and Colour.
I am not a big fan of colouring in books. I want children to draw from their imagination and experience, rather than colour in someone else’s pictures. I want them to value their own designs and creativity, rather than feel like they should be drawing pictures like those in colouring in books. My girls LOVE […]
Great Little Books.
The girls were given these wonderful little books for Christmas… The Midnight Adventures and Kelly, Dot and Esmerelda and Creepy Castle, both by John S Goodall. Both books have only pictures, no words. Both have wonderful illustrations and little pages that flip over to make one picture turn into something else before you turn the […]
What Can We Do Today? Go Prehistoric!
I need at least ten minutes of peace to get Muski to sleep during the day. That means I need ten minutes where the Twinadoes don’t sound like baby elephants on our wood floors, don’t scream at each other at the top of their lungs and don’t come whining to me for something ever 30 […]