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...

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

Here are some fun Christmas themed play invitations, including sensory play, and lovely Christmas playdough to help inspire your Christmas play! Christmas play is lots of fun for children in the lead up to Christmas! The lead up to Christmas time is such an exciting time for children! Having some Christmas themed play invitations is a great way to help children enjoy the days and weeks before Christmas while having fun. In this blog post I have included some of the Christmas

Read on to find out some of the ways we use our open ended wooden toys - the Grimms weather set, Grimms rainbow and Grapat perpetual calendar, to learn about our world in a playful way. The Grimms weather set and rainbows are a beautiful and hands on way to learn about weather and the seasons. Learning Through Play with Open-Ended Toys We adore our open ended toy collection at our house because of the many ways these toys can be used for play and learning. One of the ways we

How we set up our toy shelf to inspire play and imagination. Our new toy shelf has inspired so much play and imagination already Our play space has changed numerous times over the past few years and mostly likely will continue as our girls grow and our needs for the space change. We started with a small little shelf in the corner of our lounge room, then we changed to a cube shelf in our dining room and now we have this house bookcase from Mocka in the corner of our lounge ro

These lucite cubes look stunningly beautiful with all their bright rainbow colours, but I wondered if they would actually be played with..

A look at the open-ended toys on our shelf this week all reset and ready for play! Read on to find some inspiration and ideas for your...