childrens activities

Crazy Baby Songs and Finger Plays

There is nothing better than hearing your baby giggle, and Muski is pretty easy to make giggle. He has the funniest little chuckle and just pulling a face can set him off. But one thing that really gets him going is when I sing or say rhymes with actions. Perhaps he is just laughing at […]

Seuss-love

We are HUGE Dr Seuss fans in this house. We own and love about 25 Seuss books and still have more we’d like to collect!
Did you know that Dr Seuss’s full name is Theodor Seuss Geisel and that he wrote under the name Theo LeSieg - ‘LeSieg’ being his last name Geisel spelt backwards! He […]

Crafty Holiday Goodness!

Today officially marks the end of the the Kinder holidays for the Twinadoes. They are back at kinder this afternoon, epi pens and allergy plans in hand, all going well, hopefully
I’ve had a bit of a love-hate relationship with having the girls home full time again, after only just getting everyone used to the whole […]

The Easiest Easter Biscuits Ever!

The Twinadoes wanted to bake something ‘Eastery’ this afternoon. I toyed with the idea of trying some hot cross buns because we do love them so, but in the end we went with something super easy and something very hands on. This is so easy even the non-bakers among us (Annette!) can manage, because there […]

Kid’s Party Ideas - Keeping it Simple!

Continuing with the party theme in honour of ‘The Ultimate Blog Party ‘08′ I thought I’d crank up the old brain and see if I could dig out some of the info that has been long stored away, from my life before kids.
Before the girls were born I was a preschool teacher, and on […]

Top Ten Groovy Lullabies

A while back I posted asking everyone to suggest some ‘suitably cool and hip lullabies‘ and I got some really great ideas! So to save your children from hearing the same lullabies over and over I thought I’d share my new top ten groovy lullabies!
I have linked to you-tube videos of the songs where I […]

Insane!

Yesterday, to save myself from a repeat of this… they told me they were ‘camping’…
And to save the girls from impending doom if we had to go through the packing up trauma of that yet again, we made this….Easy as pie - actually easier than pie! Done in the microwave!
1 cup flour1/2 cup salt1 […]

Drawing!

After seeing a rather special drawing by an equally special young lady on a friends blog the other day it got me thinking about drawing in general and how much of it we do in this house and how I am starting to see some changes in the way the girls draw.
We’ve always had crayons […]

Water Play

Ok so better late than never for another activities post!
It has been hot here… really hot today, so hot that even playing outside is not an option so we’ve been doing lots of water play! A lot!
What you’ll need…

something to put the water in! - we bought these two tubs at the warehouse (because we […]

Cutting!

Ok cutting is probably not the easiest activity to start with… especially not for young three year olds who have never held a pair of scissors or a slack mother trying to ease into doing more ’stuff’ with her kids…. but when we were out shopping for bits and pieces the girls spied the scissors […]

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