Help your child develop their cutting skills with these adorable free animal themed printable pages. You can even make some animal puppets too! Cute animal themed cutting strips for a fun way to work on cutting skills. Lions, pandas, bears, sloths, koalas and more. So many cute little animals to inspire your little one to work on their cutting skills. These could also be used for tracing too! I set this up as an invitation to cut with some animal figurines to encourage some p

Help your child grow their self-belief and positive inner voice with these printable affirmation cards. Welcome to the blog post for this...

Sensory play trays don't need to be complicated. Here is a quick to put together and fun rainbow invitation to play... Simple and fun...

From small worlds, to using them with playdough, read on to see some of the fun ways we play with our Grapat mandala pieces ... Pretty Grapat mandala flowers Loose parts, such as the Grapat mandala pieces, offer so much potential for play and learning through play, as there are endless possibilities for their use. A little imagination and creativity allows the magic of this open-ended toy to appear. We enjoy using the mandala pieces in lots of different ways, so I decided to

Tips for how we inspire a love of reading in our home + some unicorn bookish themed playdough play. Growing a Lifelong Love of Reading...

An easy and playful learning idea this week about the colour yellow and feelings too! An Invitation to Play This was a fun little yellow...

Here is a FUN & SIMPLE craft and play idea, that your child will enjoy making and playing with! Mermaid water and sand play tray using our DIY watercolour paint shells. This week I am sharing a very fun and simple craft project that we did last year. It was quick to set up and the shells have been used in a range of ways since we made them. They are still going well and the girls enjoy using them with the sand for play. Keep reading to see how we painted our shells and then h

Make some fossils with your child to use for this fun dinosaur dig play tray, perfect for a little dinosaur lover! Dino fossil dig - A fun sensory play idea! Calling all future paleontologists .... or just your little dinosaur loving children! This is a fun craft project and sensory play invitation all in one. Inviting your little one to help make the fossils is just as much fun as digging them up! Our dinosaur fossils were inspired by @ncmummabird on Instagram. They used sal

A fun way to invite your child for some calming sensory play using their favourite tea set. Tea party time with a sensory tray! Tea party...

Some cute heart themed invitations to play, craft ideas and books to use for Valentine's Day or anytime you feel like something heart themed. Heart themed play invitations can be lots of fun! As a parent or educator, we want our little ones to know how much they are loved and cared for. Heart and love themed invitations, books and crafts are a perfect way to remind our children how much they mean to us and help them to explore the meaning of love. Valentine's Day is the perfe

Easily print these designs and invite your child to have some mindfulness time, with many possibilities for play and creating. Print and play in many ways for some fun mindfulness time for your child Why mindful play? Opportunities for playing and creating as a mindfulness activity are something that I am passionate about providing Miss 5 with as often as possible. She really enjoys creating and using her imagination, engaging deeply as she quietly plays and works. These prin

A fun and magical way to play outside without worrying about making lots of mess and no need for a mud kitchen or fancy equipment. Backyard potion making using old kitchen items Welcome to this week's blog post about some recent outdoor potion play we did after Miss 5 was given some potion making fizzes for Christmas. This is a really fun way to play outside, that does not need special equipment or toys, rather whatever you can find in your backyard and some water. Potion mix