Indoor Fun

Puppet Fun: Making and Playing With Puppets

November 8, 2011

I am taking a little time offline this week to spend with family and to try and kick the final symptoms of my recent illness.  Fortunately, I have some great blogging friends who have offered to help me out with a series of fabulous guest posts. I hope you all enjoy this playful post by [...]

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Fine Motor Activities for Preschoolers: Threading

October 25, 2011
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Immy loves threading and when I shared last week on the Childhood 101 Facebook page that Immy was threading, one friend asked where I had sourced the supplies we were using. Often before we begin, Immy and I have a ‘threading hunt!’ Looking for items from around our home that are suitable for threading (Immy [...]

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A Play Scene All of Her Own

September 23, 2011
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Immy was quietly busy in her playroom earlier this week and I peeked in to discover her creating her very own play scene – a fairy garden.  She had laid out a green scarf (we keep a box of coloured scarves in the playroom) and was collecting and arranging all sort of bits and bobs [...]

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Our Dino World Play Scene

September 17, 2011
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Immy is currently very interested in dinosaurs so I thought that creating a play scene together would provide a fun space for her to re-enact much of the information that she has been gathering through the exploration of her interest. When I suggested the idea to her, Immy’s first request was that the play scene [...]

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Q is for Quiet Play Activities

September 1, 2011
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As Immy has been transitioning from nap time to quiet time I have been mentally collecting ideas for activities that she can play with quietly and independently. How long a child will play independently with any of the ideas listed below will be influenced by their age, development, interest in the activity and how used [...]

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9 Ways to Play With Nature Indoors

June 18, 2011

Kate and I have put together a short slideshow sharing nine ways to add a little spot of nature to your play indoors. Something which is fun to do any day but which I expecially try and do whenever our outside time is cut short thanks to adverse weather! *If you are reading this via [...]

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Getting Little Bodies Moving When It’s Too Cold (or Hot) Outdoors

June 11, 2011
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It’s cooling down rapidly on this side of the world (which is what tends to happen when Winter hits, I know!) and warming up for my friends overseas, so today here is a list of ideas for keeping little people physically active when it is just too cold (or hot) to spend a lot of [...]

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DIY Kids: Play Dressing Table from a Cardboard Box

May 6, 2011
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This project has been rumbling around in my brain now as an addition to our dramatic play corner (which you can see here). All it took was a book sized packing box which I cut the front from. And two flat pieces of thick packing cardboard – one for the dressing table top and one [...]

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