A change in season always provides lots of new play opportunities, and summer means hopefully most of our time will be spent outdoors, and the garden will become an extension…
Browsing Tag
Playtime
This farm themed sensory small world provides a wonderful opportunity for open-ended imaginative play, and is perfect to fit with our home preschool On the Farm theme. Tray set-up Tray…
Our Playful Learning home preschool theme for April is On the Farm. Spring is a great time to learn about the farm as we will hopefully get to see some baby…
Another rainbow themed craft for this week – a colourful elephant mosaic, inspired by our patchwork friend, Elmer. Download the printable elephant mosaic activity for a really easy toddler craft…
I could not have planned for better weather for our little alfresco painting with nature activity yesterday. The sky was blue and cloudless, the sun was beaming down on our…
I was inspired by these paper plate rainbows from The Resourceful Mama to put together an Elmer and the Rainbow craft for Rosalie, to fit in with our Spring, Kites…
Last week, to get us in the mood for spring, and to kick start our Spring, Kites and Rainbows theme for March, I put together this Spring Sensory Tray for Rosalie.…
In anticipation of some warmer weather, our Playful Learning theme for March is going to be Spring, Kites and Rainbows! As always, I’ve created a theme poster to be stuck up in Rosalie’s play space,…
To continue our Homes and Houses themed play, I made Rosalie a little at home matching game*. We turned this into an I spy matching game using dyed rice – Rosalie really…
Since Matilda was born on the fourth of this month, I am sad to say that, despite my best efforts to be prepared, our Homes and Houses themed activities have…
Our Playful Learning theme for February is going to be Homes and Houses. I partly chose this as I felt with a newborn in the house, a large portion of our days…
Children are curious by nature, they ask a lot of questions, and rightly so; the world is a complex place for little ones (and adults) to comprehend, and it is…
I created Rosalie this snowmen tracing printable last week for some pre-writing, pencil control and fine motor practice. She loves using her whiteboard pens and tracing over things, just as…
This Arctic Small World proved to be a big hit with Rosalie, and with me because it was so simple to set up! It gave her opportunities for sensory play…