November 2011

Issue 2 of Play Grow Learn is here! Because Play Matters.

November 30, 2011

Looking for fresh, fabulous ideas for playtime at your house? For just $4 you can instantly download Issue 2 of Play Grow Learn, which includes 55 full colour pages of playful inspiration from contributors from all around the world. Bursting with ideas for playing inside and outside, with activities for active kids, creative kids, imaginative [...]

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Our Christmas Top 5… the things we won’t be giving up this year!

November 30, 2011

This post is by regular contributor Sarah Bendeich of Oesch & Doots. We live a plane ride away from our extended family, and when our kids arrived we decided that we would alternate our Christmas locations between our here and there. So we have two very contrasting Christmas experiences. A typical ‘home’ Christmas is small, [...]

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Kids Art: Exploring Lines and Designs

November 29, 2011

Yesterday I offered Immy some paper and suggested that she do some drawing at the easel with her oil pastel. Lately her drawings have been all about fairies and angels but instead this time she started drawing lines and shapes, many that were symmetrical. And instead of calling them drawings, when she started telling me [...]

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Literacy Spot #48: Letters to Santa

November 28, 2011

One of the activities Immy has been excited about this year (for the first time) is writing a letter to Santa so when I heard that my friend Kate over at Picklebums was developing a free printable Christmas letter writing set it seemed like the perfect match Immy has been talking about the gifts she [...]

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Our Play Space: Tiny Space for Little Ones

November 27, 2011

A peek inside a reader’s play space… We live in a small apartment (about 600 sq ft) in the heart of Manhattan with 3 little kids. Although our living space its tight we have been able to carve out a piece of it for the kids. I am so glad we did. We use every [...]

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Homemade Christmas Fun: Christmas Snow Dome

November 24, 2011

Immy recently discovered snow domes in the Australia Zoo gift store! Her one purchase choice out of everything in the store was a Steve Irwin snow dome So this week I thought we might make a simple Christmas snow dome to add to her ‘collection.’ Christmas Snow Dome Tutorial You will need; 1 small [...]

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Creating a Tradition of Less is More at Christmas

November 23, 2011

This post is by regular contributor Tricia Hogbin of Little Eco Footprints. I get overwhelmed at all the gifts my daughter receives at Christmas. I’m sure she does too. I’ve watched her move from unwrapping one gift to the next without pausing to register what she had just unwrapped. I’ve also seen her struggle to [...]

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Nature Kids: A Grubby Giveaway

November 22, 2011

Immy has been a big fan of DirtGirlWorld for almost two years (I actually posted about it here eighteen months ago). This award winning television show has been one that I have been happy for her to watch as I can see that as well as being entertaining and age appropriate, the program communicates a [...]

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