Finger painting is all about squishing, smoooshing, sliding, squelching, wiggling, and slipping around in paint. It’s more sensory experience that art actvity, and it is all about the process, the doing, and not much about the finished product. We LOVE to finger paint at our house. We love to get our hands all slippery with […]
Five Easy Alternatives to a Water Table
I love to set up water play and other sensory play for my kids. It can get a little messy but it’s an activity that always engages my kids for long periods, they will often all happily play together and it seems to calm fractious nerves, so it is worth a little mess. We don’t […]
Zero to Two – the Book of Play
After a stressful few days worrying about bush fires in our area, it was time for my smallest child and I to do something fun and positive. So we got out the bee hive and little bee puppets I created for a wonderful ebook called Zero to Two. And while Noah was playing with the […]
Painting Ice
If you follow my facebook page or on instagram, or twitter, you may already know that we live in an area that was affected by the bush fires on Sunday. Our fire plan is to leave so I evacuated into town with the kids at around lunch time so we were safe as we waited […]
Making Maths Real
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 attitude and confidence regarding maths sucks. Maths and number and physics type things have never been my thing. I have always regarded myself as having […]
Playdough Flower Garden – Free Printable.
Make a playdough garden with these fun, free printable, garden playdough accessories. Kids of all ages will love making a garden full of flowers, bees and bugs, using these printable playdough flower garden accessories. Whether you are working on a spring learning theme, or perhaps your kids are interested in gardens, or insect, or they […]
See-Through Paintings
I love the idea of painting on windows with my kids, but the only child height window we have is… ahem… still not painted, so letting my kids loose near all that bare wood with paints that might stain aint gonna happen. I have given up waiting for the damn things to be painted (it’s […]
Six Simple Fine Motor Activities
Fine motor skills are what we early childhood educators talk about when we mean all the small muscle, refined movements of the hands. It also relates to thinks like eye-hand-coordination and is an essential pre-writing skill to develop and practice. While fine motor skills are important, they are also really easy to practice and develop, […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- …
- 7
- Next Page »