Today I’m welcoming Arlee from Small Potatoes who is sharing her tips to survive messy play. Arlee is a pasta loving, cookbook hoarding Mum of six, and a preschool teacher who runs her own in home child care. If you have not yet visited Small Potatoes you are missing out on awesome bento box ideas, […]
Finger Painting on Foil
We have a longstanding love affair with foil in our house. We’ve painted on it, drawn on it, made Christmas decorations out of it, and today we got out the shiny roll of goodness once again. Today it was time for finger painting on foil! You’ll Need… Something to cover your work surface – we […]
Simple Salt Play
The house is unnaturally quiet except for his little voice. “I do it?” “I help you mum?” “I want pick up…. Mum, PICK UP!” You see Noah has very rarely been at home on his own. There were a few hours here or there last year when Morgan was at kinder, but we tended to […]
9 Simple Sensory Play Ideas
The sense of touch is a wonderful thing to base an activity around. Toddlers, preschoolers and even bigger kids love sensory play and it’s well worth the effort for the great learning opportunities and loads of fun you can have. Yep, sometimes it can be a bit messy, but if you set up well then […]
Play With your Food? Or Not? My Thoughts on Food in Play.
When I was a brand new teacher, I worked with a wonderful woman who taught me lots about really connecting the children we were working with to what they were learning. She had some very passionate ideas, and one of those was that food should not be used for play. Her reasons for this made […]
Super Easy Slime Recipe – Simple Sensory Play
A friend asked for a simple slime recipe the other day, and I realised that it had been a long, long time since we’d made any slime at our house too. So I shared this simple sensory play idea with my friend and my kids! This is the easiest slime recipe I know of… Slime! […]
How to Make Plastic Bottle Sand Scoops.
It’s cold here right now. Yesterday morning it was -2 degrees C in my kitchen (which is possibly because one wall and the ceiling are still made of blue tarps). I think I was a hibernating animal in my past life, because when it is dark and dreary outside I just want to shut all […]
A Tub Full of Goop – Oobleck Recipe
It’s one part science, 1 part magic, 1 part sensory play and 2 parts fun!
It’s begins as two simple ingredients – wet and dry, corn flour and water.
Mix them together and at first it just looks like a tub of mess… but sink your hands in. Go on… I know you want to.