“Swimming, swimming, In the swimming pool. When days are hot When days are cold In the swimming pool! Breaststroke Sidestroke Fancy diving too! Don’t you wish you never had, Anything else to do!” We’ve been singing that song a lot around here this past week. The twinadoes have just completed a week of swimming lessons […]
What Can We Do Today? Bubble Painting!
It’s third term holidays here and since I promised both myself and my kids that we’d do some painting, yesterday we got busy with bubble painting! You’ll need – Watered down paint, food colouring or liquid water colours mixed with a little detergent. A container for each colour. Straws (a couple for each child unless […]
Toys We Love – Lego!
Ah how we love Duplo and Lego! All three kids enjoy building with our HUGE collection of Duplo (big toddler lego). Muski has been able to fit the blocks together and build towers since he was about 18 months old and the girls create amazingly detailed and elaborate constructions and stories to go along with […]
Draw and Colour.
I am not a big fan of colouring in books. I want children to draw from their imagination and experience, rather than colour in someone else’s pictures. I want them to value their own designs and creativity, rather than feel like they should be drawing pictures like those in colouring in books. My girls LOVE […]
What Can We Do Today? Go Prehistoric!
I need at least ten minutes of peace to get Muski to sleep during the day. That means I need ten minutes where the Twinadoes don’t sound like baby elephants on our wood floors, don’t scream at each other at the top of their lungs and don’t come whining to me for something ever 30 […]
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