When your sisters have gone to do something special without you, there needs to be some sort of fabulousness at home to even the score. On this occasion fabulousness for a three and a half year old was painting, but not just any kind of painting…. magic painting! Stuff we used.. An old wax candle […]
Say Yes to Painting.
The beginning of the new year always seems fill with such potential and optimism. I’m trying to catch those positive feelings and keep them hostage at the Pickle Farm for the rest of the year. One of the things I am trying to keep up with is saying yes to my kids more often. Many […]
Stamping?
When I suggested that he might like to do some stamping, Muski jumped up excitedly and began to stamp his gum-booted feet loudly around the room! “Not that kind of stamping… ” I giggled. “Well what kind of stamping then?” He asked crossly. “The kind you do with those animal stamps we got from Eco […]
How to Make Recycled Rainbow Crayons.
If you’ve got some old broken crayons laying around, it’s easy to make these recycled rainbow crayons! These fun rainbow crayons make a great birthday party favour, or a fun craft activity, or just a super cool way to recycled broken crayons into rainbow crayons that are lots of fun to draw with! This post […]
Baby Play
Quatro is four months old. We have moved from the time when we count his age in weeks to the time when we count in months. He is no longer a newborn. These days he is awake more and interacts with joy and intensity. Despite being the fourth child, we never tire of making him […]
We Play… in the Sand Pit!
Spring sprang on the weekend (even if the weather around here as temporarily forgotten how to be warm and sunny) and as I crawled out of my cave, outside, into the sunshine for the first time in months, I realised what a dismal state our sand pit was in. Time for some spring sand pit […]
Castle Blocks
I made these castle blocks a long long time ago. I made them from a little boy who didn’t want to come to preschool. He was mad keen on knights and dragons and things like that, so I begged some off-cuts of wood from a local building site and cut out some basic castle shapes […]
We Play – Tying Shoe Laces
It seems we have come to that point in time when I can avoid it no longer. The only pair of pink sneakers in a size big enough to fit Izzy have shoe laces. Yes, laces… not velcro, not stretchy elastic things, but real, need to be tied, laces. Now I have to teach Izzy […]
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