Toddler Fun

Dinos and Packaging – Wordless Wednesday

September 7, 2011
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It seems I am not the only one excited by today’s delivery!

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Play Dough with Straws and Toothpicks

September 6, 2011
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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 [...]

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Easy Art for Kids – Circle Printing

August 2, 2011
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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 [...]

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Easy Art for Kids – Sponge Printing.

July 26, 2011
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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 [...]

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Jungle Play Dough

June 28, 2011
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My Big Boy is play dough crazy at the moment. We have lots and lots of play dough accessories, but his sisters wanted to get him ‘something special’ for his birthday, something different to all the play dough things we already have. Instead of buying more commercial accessories the girls decided to make him some! [...]

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Block Play is Important Work

June 7, 2011
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Block building is important work around here at the moment. While he is busy creating ‘The Wizardly World of Wizaldo the Wizard’ he is also learning maths skills such as number, shape, weight, volume, grouping and sorting. He’s experimenting with concepts like balance and gravity. He’s learning and using new language. He’s practising spatial awareness [...]

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Sand Tray Play

May 31, 2011
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He was in tears when his Dad left without him this morning. I needed a distraction, something to make him think staying at home with me was WAY better then going out with his Dad. I offered painting, I even offered a DVD but none of them got more than a screamed “No!” and more [...]

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Five Green Frogs – Kid’s Music Printable

March 29, 2011
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Our three and a half year old boy loves to count. He counts everything and anything that has numbers in it, on it, or part of it is definitely his ‘favourite’ at the moment. He also likes green. Combine numbers, counting and green things I’m suddenly the ‘best Mum ever!’ Since I am working towards [...]

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