Preschooler Fun

Playing with More Sticks!

August 23, 2011

Last week I put my big girl undies on and let my kids have a fabulous time playing with sticks outside. I learnt a lot from the experience of letting go and allowing my kids to take reasonable risks and it seems lots of you feel the same way (thanks for all the lovely comments). [...]

Playing With Sticks

August 16, 2011

I can hear the voice in my head, yelling across the play ground; “Put the stick down! It’s not safe, you’ll poke someone’s eye out! Put it down!” If the voice didn’t belong to me it was someone I was working with or another parent. A small child waving a stick around seems to make [...]

Easy Art for Kids – Painting On Wood.

August 9, 2011

You know how we are doing that crazy renovating thing right? Well there is a lot of scraps and off cuts of wood lying around the Pickle Farm at the moment. We had lots of fun creating sculptures and building things with the wood scraps and glue guns, and we’ve had fun with the wood [...]

Easy Art for Kids – Circle Printing

August 2, 2011

We went on a hunt, looking for round things to print with. We found lots of different round things, some worked well for printing, other’s not so well! Here are some round things that worked great to make prints with! A cup Cut up cardboard tube Bottle caps Marker lid The bottom of a gum [...]

Easy Art for Kids – Sponge Printing.

July 26, 2011

We are still on the look out for interesting things to print and paint with so when I saw a nice big piece of packing foam at my parents placed I snaffooed it right away! Then one wet, cold and miserable afternoon I took to it with a pair of scissors and cut out some [...]

Wordless Wednesday – Cut, Paste, Repeat.

July 13, 2011

Give them a pile of magazines, some scissors and a glue stick and they’re happy for hours. Give the baby a magazine to eat and he’s happy to join them for at least five minutes. Join in with (almost) Wordless Wednesday at My Little Drummer Boys. Trish will forgive you if you can’t be totally [...]

Wood Constructions With Hot Glue

July 12, 2011

When I saw this fabulous activity at Filth Wizardry (and while you’re there check out their gorgeous new baby girl!!) I really wanted to try it with my kids over the holidays. When I went to the craft shop to buy icy-pole sticks I was blown away by how expensive they were, considering how many [...]

Wordless Wednesday – Tree House Doll’s House.

July 6, 2011

Inspired by Childhood101 and Irresistible Ideas we made a tree house doll’s house as a gift for Morgan’s birthday. Along with a few new Schleich boy fairies/elves our big boy declared it ‘the best present ever’… along with play dough and Lego that is! Playing (Almost) Wordless Wednesday with My Little Drummer Boys – pop [...]

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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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