activities for children

Build Your Own Robot Free Printable

May 21, 2013

When Morgan was around about three he fell in love with robots… or ‘lobots’ as he called them back then. It’s comforting and also slightly surreal that as Noah approaches [...]

Laminated Pastel Drawings

May 14, 2013

I was given a gift card to an office supplies store for Christmas. And if that wasn’t awesome enough, I was also given an hour to wander around that store… [...]

Making Maths Real – Spielgaben Toy Review

May 2, 2013

This is a review post. See my disclosure page for more information, or check the end of this post. I suck at maths. Hang on, let me rephrase that… My [...]

Graph Paper Drawing – Where Art and Maths Combine.

April 30, 2013

We had some friends over last week, and after almost a whole day running around, jumping on the trampoline, dancing, dressing up, playing vets, and chasing chickens by late afternoon [...]

Things to Save for Play

April 23, 2013

“What are you doing?” “I’m putting this away.” “By why???” Ok so my little stash of plastic scoops may be a little odd to some people, but to me it [...]

Acorn Season – Why Collecting Stuff is Good for Kids

April 16, 2013

It’s acorn season. We live in an area where huge old oak trees are everywhere, stretching their ancient branches heavy with acorns and covered in luminous green leaves almost down [...]

Snippets of Play – Scooping

April 11, 2013

We often do elaborate, new and ‘exciting’ activities with the big kids, and Noah (who is coming up to three years old!) happily tags along and joins in. Sometimes I [...]

Printable Playdough Garden

April 9, 2013

Right before Easter, in a last minute rush, I made some printable bunny cupcake toppers. A day or so later I spied those very same little bunnies hopping through a [...]

Bouncy Balloon Painting

April 2, 2013

I don’t like balloons. Well actually I don’t mind balloons on their own, but when you combine balloons with kids, it always ends in tears. Well almost always… In a [...]

Happy Eggs

March 29, 2013

A basket of eggs from this morning, and a couple of restless kids… Add some permanent markers… Happy eggs for the lucky friend who gets this half dozen today.

Five Ways to Get Started With Imaginative Play

March 26, 2013

Noah is two years and 9 months old and suddenly his imagination has gone into over drive. He has gone from limited and very simple imaginative play such as a [...]

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