FREE RAINBOW CRAFT FOR KIDS PRINTABLE It’s all about the rainbows in our house lately. Rainbow colours, rainbow bedroom, rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! Lucky for me I’m quite partial to the odd rainbow and I’m also pretty fond of having a little colour splashed throughout into our home. And with Indi becoming more rainbow obsessed by the day, […]
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The Only Play Dough Recipe You Will EVER need!
THE BEST PLAYDOUGH RECIPE EVER! This would have to be my all time favourite play dough recipe, tried and tested time and time again. It is cheap, quick, easy, provides hours of fun and is one the BEST activities to get those little hands moving, strengthening and developing the all important fine motor skills in […]
Cool Play Ideas for Kids – Cattywampus, ‘The Imagination’s Playground’
How to create a fun space that encourages play-based learning using teepees. Just before Christmas, I styled a beautiful teepee in my children’s room for Australian brand Cattywampus – a high end maker of luxe teepees for children. But instead of just looking at how very cool these play tents are, today on the blog I […]
FROZEN WATER PLAY – sensory play for kids
SENSORY PLAY FOR KIDS The PERFECT sensory play experience for a hot Summer’s day! Over the school holidays I set this frozen water play experience up for Indi. It is a low cost, fun and simple activity that will keep little minds busy for hours. Not only do they look AMAZING, but these frozen water balls are […]
Christmas Activities for Kids – Christmas Tree Counting
Christmas Activities for Kids – Learning Through Play With the festive season fast approaching I thought I would share one of my favourite Christmas activities I like to do in the classroom and at home using this cute ‘Decorate the Christmas Tree’ kids Christmas activity I made. Originally made as play dough mats for the […]
Family Tree Handprint Craft!
Hi! Just sharing one of my favourite little craft activities that I LOVE to do with the little people of the world. And now that my littlest babe Indi is showing a great interest in anything creative, I thought it was the perfect time to capture those little handprints that get up to so much mischief and […]
How to Make Oobleck
Oobleck – messy creative fun for little ones! oobleck – I was first introduced to this ooey, gooey, substance way back in my uni days and it still hasn’t lost it’s appeal. Cheap, quick and easy, this simple Oobleck recipe can provide little people with hours of fun sensory play! YOU WILL NEED: cornflour water a […]
Craft for kids – Cute Easter Card Ideas
easter chick craft activity Back again! Sharing another fave of mine – this one’s a total cracker! (I know, lamest joke EVER but it had to be done). Anyway, here is another really cute craft activity you can do at home with your little ones during the Spring or Easter break. Perfect for toddlers or […]
book week costumes for kids
SUPER SIMPLE BOOK WEEK COSTUME IDEAS FOR TIME POOR, BUSY AND STRESSED OUT MUMS (aka, me during book week) BOOK WEEK – So, we survived book week. Just. Lucky for me I really only had to make 1 outfit, and a thing or 2. So today I though I’d post about the characters my kids […]
Gift Ideas – Happy Hands Happy Heart
Gift Ideas Kids Love – Playdough by Happy Hands Happy Heart! Playdough – BIG FANS!!! Why? Well… because playdough is quite possibly one of THE BEST activities small children can do to help with development of their fine motor skills (you know the ones, those tiny little hand muscles that children need to strengthen and […]