Joining in with Childhood101’s We Play series today. ‘Car World’ was recently constructed in my living room…. At first it was just a line up of cars, then it became some roads, then a bridge which, with the return of the Big Girls from school, turned into a ramp that flew cars off the table […]
Kids and Learning – Let Go and Create!
Welcome to the May Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival, ‘Kids and Learning.’ The Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival hosted by [email protected] is for anyone, because we are all teachers and learners. This month our bloggers have come up with some wonderful suggestions for fun things to do with your kids, ways to help them learn and thoughts on what […]
We Play – Farms!
Muski and I are playing along with Childhood101’s We Play link up today! We’ve been busy playing farms today! First we had to decide which of our large selection of animals lived on a farm and which didn’t (Can you see two who probably shouldn’t be there?). Then we found some nice green grass (an […]
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.
Trying to keep all the Picklebums entertained on a day when it is either too hot or too wet to go outside (and we’ve had both since new years!) isn’t always easy. But sometimes I forget the joy of simple things… It had been so long since we’d made playdough, and if I remember rightly […]
Toddler Fun – Hats ‘n’ Bags
Dressing up is big time popular in this house. We have enough dress-ups to clothe a small army, and still there are more and more and more ideas for new outfits popping out of the girl’s heads at a rate of knots. But what about the Small Boy? Muski loves to dress up too… but […]
Handmade tree blocks
The party starts in about an hour, but my baby is getting sicker and is asleep in my arms so I think we will be late – he needs to sleep more than we need to party. But since the party girl’s Mum won’t have a chance to read this before we get there I […]
Crazy Baby Songs and Finger Plays
There is nothing better than hearing your baby giggle, and Muski is pretty easy to make giggle. He has the funniest little chuckle and just pulling a face can set him off. But one thing that really gets him going is when I sing or say rhymes with actions. Perhaps he is just laughing at […]
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