Are you looking for a beautiful autumn leaf craft to do with your kids? Try making one of these lovely autumn crowns. To make your autumn crown you’ll need to collect a whole lot of autumn leaves! Go outside, visit a park, or take a walk around your neighborhood and collect as many different kinds […]
We Play… Sorting!
Joining in with childhood101.com’s We Play series today – head on over and check out all the inspiring ideas this week! We’ve played with this impromptu sorting tray for the last few days! It’s just a seedling tray from our local nursery – they give them away free to carry your seedlings, or if you […]
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 […]
The Thing About Trains
We got our first set of Brio Trains when the girls were just toddlers. Since then there has been a long love affair with trains in our house. We’ve now got a huge selection of wooden train tracks, roads and associated accessories, and each Christmas or birthday we seem to need an even bigger box […]
Box Cubby Fun
Of course the best thing about getting a new washing machine is that it comes in a really big box!!! With a sharp knife and some good sticky tape we created a cubby house, with a sky light! Simple pleasures…
The Art Cupboard.
My kids like to create. We have a designated (lockable to the toddler but not the big girls) art cupboard full of pencils and paper and glue and scissors etc… but lately it’s been getting way out of control. It’s full of markers without lids, half used colour in books, a million tiny bits of […]
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 […]
Simple Microwave Play Dough Recipe.
Play dough is a great activity for kid of all ages and this simple microwave playdough recipe is an easy way to make homemade play dough any time. If you’ve got kids who love play dough as much as mine do, making your own dough is a cost effective way to alway has some play […]