Sometimes I get carried away with ideas for fancy, elaborate, art projects. Sometimes I curse Play School for filling my children’s heads with ideas on how to create ‘a farm with real animals and grass’ out of two toilet rolls and a box of tissues. And sometimes I remember that the kids and I don’t […]
A Fairy Story
The Fairy Concert – by Zoe. Once apon a time, a long long time ago, in a valley, far, far away there lived some fairies. Some of the fairies were Sun Fairies and they liked to dance in the sunshine. Some of the fairies were Shadow fairies and they liked to dance under the moon […]
Playdough Alien Monsters!
We didn’t play yesterday…. Actually we did, it’s just that I was too busy to take any photos or blog about it. But we played today. We played and made Mr Potato Head plastic cup alien playdough monsters…. A day late, and a little short on details, but joining in Childhood101’s We Play link up… […]
Babies Love Books.
All of the pickle kids adore books. Our kids have a good combination of book loving genes from both sides of the family, but I suspect their solid love of reading also has a lot to do with the fact that they’ve been read to from a very young age. The girls were given gifts […]
Simple Water Play – Washing Dishes.
Try this simple water play idea with your kids, get them to wash the dishes! This easy sensory play idea is quick to set up, low mess, and lots of fun! Sometimes I go all out and set up elaborate play spaces and activities for my kids. But some days I am all about making […]
We Play Puzzles and Games and Everything!
I had grand plans for what the Middle Boy and I would play today. Grand plans for getting out the puppet theatre and puppets and putting on a show… But sometimes grand plans get scuttled by a morning full of tantrums and tears and just needing five minutes peace to regroup… and before you know […]
We Play Dolls.
Not surprisingly there has been a lot of interest in babies in our house of late. So we hunted out the dolls and the big basket of dolls clothes, found a few spare baby blankets and set up the Big Boy’s new castle cubby with comfy places for babies to sleep…. Muski was given this […]
We Play – Cotton Bud Painting.
I’m putting my money where my mouth is today… or my blog where my mouth is, so to speak. For the past two Teach and Learn Carnivals I’ve blogged on about art and how important it is for little kids…. and today we actually did some! Nothing flash. Just a big sheet of paper, some […]
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