When I saw this fabulous activity at Filth Wizardry (and while you’re there check out their gorgeous new baby girl!!) I really wanted to try it with my kids over the holidays. When I went to the craft shop to buy icy-pole sticks I was blown away by how expensive they were, considering how many […]
Tree House Doll’s House.
Inspired by Childhood101 and Irresistible Ideas we decided to make a tree house doll’s house as a gift for Morgan’s 4th birthday. We used Silver Birch branches and one big log of hardwood for the large rounds. We drilled and screwed the bigger support trunks to a pine board base and drilled and screwed the […]
Block Play is Important Work
Block building is important work around here at the moment. While he is busy creating ‘The Wizardly World of Wizaldo the Wizard’ he is also learning maths skills such as number, shape, weight, volume, grouping and sorting. He’s experimenting with concepts like balance and gravity. He’s learning and using new language. He’s practising spatial awareness […]
Helping With Handwriting.
Remembering how to write letters correctly and being able to do so neatly is proving a little tricky for our girls (who are in Grade one) at the moment. Not being able to write as quickly or as well as they’d like is proving frustrating as their handwriting can’t keep up with their reading, spelling […]
Easy Art for Kids – Make a Lantern
I really wanted to make autumn leaf lanterns like these, but by the time we got around to trying this out we found our big bag of autumn leaves had dried out and just crumbled when we tried to wrap them around the jar. With three disappointed kids I had to think fast. We already […]
How to Make A Music Stick.
Make a lagerphone – a simple and fun music stick musical instrument for kids using recycled materials. Kids of all ages will have fun using this simple percussion instrument and playing along to their favourite music! When my preschooler asked if we could make a musical instrument, initially I was going to go with and […]
Activities for Babies – Sparkle Bottle.
It’s important for a child’s development that they crawl before they walk. Not only for physical development but the cross patterning action (opposite hand to foot) used in traditional crawling is important for brain development. If a child skips crawling and goes straight to walking, or if they crawl in a non-traditional way (bottom scooting […]
Adult Influences on Children’s Play.
A while back I had a very interesting comment on a post about imaginative play… Cathy from This Week With the Kids said… “…I have been writing a series on play on my blog, based on Stuart Brown’s book “play”, and put up a post this week on what innovative, creative and imaginative play is. […]
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