Miss T had been asking me to craft with leaves for days. She wanted to glue them all on to cardboard and make a picture from nature. I could just imagine gloopy glue, sticks and leaves all over the house. I was not in a messy play mood. Instead, we did this easy nature craft… [Read More]
Calming love potion sensory bottle – An effective tool to teach children to self-regulate.
Sensory bottles are awesome! Don’t you think? Especially our new love potion sensory bottle that we made as a valentines day sensory play activity. It matches lovely with our Valentine’s Scented Slime. This love potion sensory bottle is so captivating, calming and easy, with lots going on inside. A sensory bottle focuses a child’s attention… [Read More]
Scented Valentine’s slime – A lovely valentine’s day kids activity
It was time to make a new batch of slime to play with! With Valentine’s day just around the corner I thought we should do a themed Valentine’s day kids activity. So we made this beautiful sparkly scented Valentine’s slime. It smells so raspberry sweet and it sparkles with glitter and hearts. Here is the… [Read More]
Australian Wattle Painting for kids- Glue and water colour 3d effects
Australia Day is in a couple of days so we did some themed painting and experimented with glue and water colour paints making this Australian Wattle painting for kids. Dimples was keen to paint during the holidays, so on a miserable home day we did some Australian wattle painting for kids and made it with… [Read More]
Discover 6 ways to increase your child’s vocabulary, empathy and social skills with story stones
Increase your child’s vocabulary, empathy and social skills before school. Story stones are a DIY kids activity that you can easily make and use to increase your child’s vocabulary, empathy and social skills in the years prior to school. Have you heard of them? They are super unique… I originally made a bunch when Dimples… [Read More]
Best books to help prepare your child for school
Starting school is full of mixed emotions, for children and their parents. It is a big transition and you want to help prepare your child for school, however you might feel more nervous than your child. It is possible that they too are feeling really unsure about starting school – however they mightn’t know how… [Read More]