There are a few ways to colour pasta so that you can play or create with it, but I needed a quick and instant activity so I decided to let my kids colour the pasta themselves and we gave painting pasta a try. Turns out this was one of those magical activities that everyone loves, […]
Chalkboard and Loose Parts!
Noah discovered the container of chalk yesterday and wanted to draw with it. As I was getting out some black paper I spied the roll of chalkboard contact paper that Micador had given us a while ago. It’s been sitting there in the cupboard waiting for me to come up with an awesome project worthy […]
Drawing and Exploring With Geometry Tools
We are working on pencil grip for a certain school boy in our house. He has a weird way of using his middle finger where his pointer should be, and he doesn’t like being corrected. So I’m trying to come up with a few new drawing and writing activities that are so cool and different […]
Snippets of Play – Scooping
We often do elaborate, new and ‘exciting’ activities with the big kids, and Noah (who is coming up to three years old!) happily tags along and joins in. Sometimes I set up something ‘fancy’ just for him, but mostly his play is made up of simple little moments, ‘snippets of play’. Just because these activities […]
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, […]
$2.50 Buys You Hours of Fun
I am such a sucker for a rainbow, so when my big boy spied this packet of plasticine at the local shops I gladly kicked in the extra fifty cents so he could afford it, but I didn’t realise how much fun we would have with it! My boy loves playdough, and initially he was […]
Wrecking Apart!
There is nothing better than taking something to pieces, opening it up and checking out what’s inside. I’m not sure why it’s so fun but I enjoy ‘wrecking apart’ things as much as my big kids do! There’s not much to it, just find an old computer or stereo or piece of old, broken, no […]