Ever since we set up our baker’s shop to sell our five current buns, playing shop has been big business around here. It makes me smile to see the three year old in charge of the shop and the crazy nine year olds dressing up to be all kinds of weird and wonderful customers. The […]
Space Crazy! Free Printable Space Characters.
All week my small boy had been asking me for a ‘face-man’. After a lot of questioning and frustrated repetitions of his ‘face-man’ request I finally figured out out… he wanted a ‘spaceman’! Of course I couldn’t stop at just a ‘face-man’ I had to make him a rocket, and an alien friend and a […]
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, […]
Oil Pastels + Oil = Paint!
I’ve been day dreaming my way through a lovely art book I borrowed from the library. One day I will have time, and space, to try some of these things, to create something, I tell myself. Then I snapped out of wishful thinking mode and realised that I could play around with ideas now, and […]
Super Easy Slime Recipe – Simple Sensory Play
A friend asked for a simple slime recipe the other day, and I realised that it had been a long, long time since we’d made any slime at our house too. So I shared this simple sensory play idea with my friend and my kids! This is the easiest slime recipe I know of… Slime! […]
Chalk Board Blocks
I need to clean off and repaint our black board. I’ve had the pot of paint sitting around for ages, but that is a big outside job, and it’s cold. Still, that pot of chalkboard paint was calling my name. So instead of the big job, I worked on something a little smaller. […]
Easy Art For Kids – String and Block Printing.
Some days it is all about quick and easy. It’s all about using things I have on hand, not needing to buy or collect or wait for anything. Today it was an old idea from the my early days of teaching, and I can’t believe I’ve never done this my own kids It’s easy, a […]
Easy Art for Kids – Scanned Drawing Prompts.
My kids love a good colouring in session. Me? I’m not so keen on colouring in books. I’d rather see my kids drawing and creating freely, not constrained by the ideas or thick black lines of other people. Even so, colouring in has found it’s place in our family, despite my misgivings, but when the […]