After plenty of flunked slime recipes and lots of experimenting, I have created an easy slime recipe with Australian ingredients. If you are an Australian you might have come across an Awesome blog with a really good looking slime recipe that you were excited to try with your child, only to discover it was an Epic fail and turned out nothing… [Read More]
Eyes Closed and Taste! A Blind Taste Testing Activity for Sensory Fun
Does food taste the same if you haven’t seen it yet? Before you have the preconception of what it might taste like. This blind taste testing activity for children is a sensory fun guessing game that explores this question. Without your sense of sight, can you identify foods based upon taste only? Do you think… [Read More]
Kids Christmas Fruit Salad
A festive Kids Christmas Fruit Salad will excite even the fussiest eaters at Christmas time. If you are dreading the Christmas feast because you have children who are fussy eaters, this Christmas Fruit Salad has you covered. First of all, lets brain storm a typical Christmas feast – What is on your Xmas table? Possibly nuts, pretzels, starchy roasted… [Read More]
Christmas Sensory bin – Snow in Australia
Real Snow in our Christmas Sensory Bin. Yes you read it correctly. We made real snow in Australia for a Christmas Sensory Bin. It wasn’t fake snow or insta-snow, it wasn’t made from any type of sensory material that could potentially be dangerous either. It was made right in our freezer and contains only one… [Read More]
Mango Berry Ice Pops
The weather is warming up here in Australia, which gives us a good excuse to make real fruit Mango Berry Ice pops. In preparation for the hot days to come we make a batch of ice pops, but they don’t last long because they are delicious. They are beautiful, tasty and full of real fruit. … [Read More]
Emotional Intelligence Activity – 5 core emotions
I did this Emotional intelligence activity with Miss T the other day. I have been increasing our emotional intelligence activity ideas for the purpose of teaching the kids to regulate extreme emotions and express them self better. The are quite the opposite, Dimples is such a sensitive and strong willed little boy who is a total jokester and Miss T is always… [Read More]