It’s really no fun when you are sick, and it’s raining, and Mum won’t let you watch TV…. It’s no fun at all, until Mum goes a little overboard and makes a huge, DIY geoboard, and adds all kinds of crazy accessories! It’s funny how a simple idea grows into something much cooler than you […]
Pattern Blocks – 20 ideas, activities and free printables
Noah is four. For a four year old he is pretty good at playing independently for fairly long periods of time, but sometimes he needs a little encouragement to get started. Sometimes, when I really need to get some work done and he just can’t settle into playing with any of the toys we have […]
Eye Dropper Activity Tray
Eye droppers are fabulous tools for kids. They work the small muscles in their hands, which they need to develop for writing, plus you can do so many fun things with them! My ten year old helped me set up a surprise for her little brother and together we created this fun eye dropper activity […]
Exploring and Creating with Coloured Glue
Sometimes art is all about getting stuff onto paper, and getting sticky and messy as you go. That is what our art looked like this morning when I gathered the empty glue bottles, added a little PVA to each bottle (we used Micdor craft glue but you can use any white craft/school glue), a dash […]
Pompoms, Beads, Grabbers and Perspective.
Perspective is an amazing thing. The beads all over the floor could be all about a small boy’s joy. They could be half an hour’s peace to get something done without a helper. They could be fine motor skills, and counting, and colour recognition and imagination. The beads all over the floor could be frustration. […]
Confetti Collage
We seem to have a bit of an obsession with glue at our house. Almost every morning Noah asks if he can do ‘gwuing’. It doesn’t matter what sort of glue we use, or what we stick with it, we just need to go some kind of ‘gwuing’ every day. It’s lovely to see my […]
Learning to Cut
Being told you can’t go with Daddy is tough at 9am on a Friday morning. It’s tough on the three year old who cries and cries, and tough on the Mum who is left to try and make things better. Making it better was going to require some really awesome distraction on my part and […]
Simple Christmas Threading.
So now that the big birthday party is over and done with, now I can start thinking about Christmas… Arrrghhh!!! Christmas is only five weeks away! I have so much to organise! And of course, because I have so much to do, today I procrastinated. Instead of working through my to-do list, Noah and I […]