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Design Your Own Printable Play Money

Posted on October 8, 2013

Design your own play money! A fun way to make your own play money and learn about different money too!

Do your kids like playing shops? This fun activity to design your own printable play money will add a whole new level of fun and learning to your kids dramatic play. 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 […]

Space Crazy! Free Printable Space Characters.

Posted on July 23, 2013

Space Crazy - free printable space characters to download print and play with!

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

Posted on March 12, 2013

Fine motor activities tongs and water beads

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!

Posted on August 28, 2012

oil pastels

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

Posted on July 31, 2012

slime

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

Posted on June 26, 2012

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.

Posted on May 8, 2012

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.

Posted on February 28, 2012

scanned drawing pages

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 […]

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