Here's a look at a couple of our favourite art materials that we just restocked ready for creating ... Some of our new brightly coloured textas all ready to create! Creativity is important in our home and something that I intentionally think about when setting up our spaces at home for play and creating. Having a range of choices of art materials available for my kids to create with is important. I make sure that we have lots of colour options and different materials to creat

Let's create a magical underwater land for mermaids! Small world play is so wonderful for imagination, developing oral language skills and vocabulary + developing the ability to make up stories and characters. This blog post walks through step by step how I set up this mermaid themed small world table for my kids to play with. *This play idea is for children ages 3+ as it contains small parts. All play was supervised by an adult. Please ensure you actively supervise all play.

Let's invite play with these beautiful colourful blocks and a mirror! A simple invitation to play with a mirror and blocks This was such a simple invitation to play that I set up last week for Miss 3. I sat with her while she played and showed her how to create towers on the mirror with some of the lucite blocks. Later in the day after she had lost interest in building I added in some little figurines, which drew her interest into playing again. Then I showed her how to stack