We all use our senses to explore and make sense of the world around us. For children sensory play offers specific experiences that are designed to encourage this exploration. Sensory play is an holistic activity – that means that it offers lots of opportunities for children to practice and develop a whole range of skills […]
Jungle Play Dough
The first time we put together a jungle play dough kit it was for my big boy’s fourth birthday. It was the beginning of my kids absolute passion for play dough, and his sisters collected all kinds of green items (green was/is his favourite colour) and helped to make play dough and wrapped it all […]
Four Recycled Tubs, Three Easy Ways to Play
Setting up an invitation to play for my kids is fun, it can be a great learning tool, and it encourages independent play, but if it takes too long to organise then it kinda defeats the purpose. If I’m after a little time to do other things I want to set up an activity that […]
Play Dough Stamping.
In between cooking rice and prepping dinner this morning I made some play dough. I used our really easy, never fail, microwave play dough recipe, but when it was done and cooling on the bench Noah looked at it and rolled his eyes… “But it’s just plain… you forgot to put the colour in it!” […]
Dino Slime!
I love setting up fun little play-scapes for Noah. At four and a half he is just bursting with subjects that he is interested in and it’s easy to grab one of those ideas and create an invitation for independent play. But as much as I love it, I don’t want to spend hours setting […]
Christmas Imaginative Play
Noah’s obsession with all things Christmas continues. He recently discovered that our Christmas tree was not real, and he was quite disappointed. He has asked about ‘real’ Christmas tress almost every day since, so today I took him to see a real Christmas tree… one of the enormous pine trees that grow in a forest […]
Christmas Drawing and Listening Game
This week’s Christmas sensory play ideas are all about sound! As far as I am concerned the best thing about Christmas is the music! Corny songs, everyone singing along, there is nothing better than that! My kids, on the other hand, are not quite as into daggy Christmas music as I am, but they LOVED […]
Free Printable Christmas Glasses!
Make these super fun printable Christmas glasses! Choose from the Christmas tree glasses, or the Christmas star glasses paper craft, or make them both! Kids of all ages will love this Christmas glasses craft and will look super cool wearing their star or Christmas tree glasses! Christmas crafts are always a fun activity to do […]