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Hi I'm Danica 👋

Welcome to the Our Playful Learning Journey blog!

I'm an Australian Early Years Teacher/Leader + former Assistant Principal with 15+ years experience working in Australian Primary Schools.

I'm also a mum of three amazing girls - who are the inspiration behind this blog 🥰

I started this blog to share my LOVE and passion for all things play, creativity and learning. I write about the things I do at home with my own children - 'Our Playful Learning Journey' to help inspire and empower others on their own journey!

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Danica

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Sep 23, 2026 ∙ 4 min

Fairy Small World Play - Fairy Forest Bookish Play

Let's create a magical fairy small world for some bookish play ... Welcome to this week's blog post - a fairy small world bookish play idea after reading the book Fairy Forest. I shared a little while ago that I am trying out using a book a week to set up some bookish themed play for my youngest daughter who is 3. We read the book together and then I set up a small world, sensory play tray art/craft or playdough play invitation to explore the ideas from the book further. It's also a great...

Aug 19, 2026 ∙ 3 min

CD Towers + Lucite Blocks - Loose Parts Play Idea for Kids

Let's get creative building with these beautiful loose parts! Loose parts play is a favourite type of play for us! We have been slowly adding to our collection of loose parts over many years now. The focus for the last few years has been adding recycled and other non-toy items to our play collection to encourage creative play. Loose parts play with old CD's and lucite blocks We recently added some old CD's to our loose parts play collection and they are brilliant for building! If you haven't...

Jul 29, 2026 ∙ 4 min

Favourite Art Materials for Creating with Kids

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 create and experiment...