I promise! Some beautiful ideas from the wider blogosphere…Why not make a crow puppet just like this one from Ordinary Life Magic. This idea could easily be adapted to other types of birds- why not create a whole aviary?Or some hand stamped popstick puppets aka Red Bird Crafts.What child wouldn’t love these little stone dolls […]
Chatterbox!
I don’t know if you have ever come across Margaret Wild’s book, Chatterbox, but it is a lovely story about Daisy the baby who will not say a word. The family try everything to coax her into talking but she won’t. Then one day, Daisy opens her mouth …and out comes a stream of sentences […]
Baby Sign Language: More Milk, Please!
Immy at the breakfast table, signing ‘more.’ When Immy was 13 months old I was fortunate to receive from the authors a copy of Toddler Interpreter: A Parent’s Guide to Baby SIgn Language for Hearing Babies and Toddlers for a magazine article I was researching. From the authors: A “how to” guide for teaching your […]
Exploring More in Nature’s Playground: At the Beach
This morning dawned sunny (but cool). As we started our morning routine of breakfasting and getting dressed, I was thinking about what we should go out and do. I wanted to take Immy out but not to our local playground of rubber and metal as my head is full of this idea of the natural […]
DIY Kids Car for Under $10
Nothing like a creative challenge to get my brain working and what could be more fun than following up Immy’s beloved cardboard box play kitchen with the next DIY Kids project… a car. Same rules apply. Only $10 and whatever I can find in my recycling bin and around the house to complete the challenge. […]
DIY Kids Kitchen for under $10 – Part 2
To be honest, I was starting to worry that it couldn’t be done. That this challenge that I had set myself to make Immy a play kitchen for under $10 was not going to be possible. It was the sink taps and spout that were getting me down. I was hoping to pick up a […]
DIY Kid’s Kitchen for under $10 – Part 1
You may remember me posting about whether or not we should buy Immy a wooden play kitchen as she loves role playing, especially cooking. In fact she has been cooking eggs non-stop for about 5 days now, maybe she is in training to be a short order cook! We have decided that we will buy […]
Easy Percussion for Kids: The Plate Dance for Toddlers & Preschoolers
Each week we attend Wiggly Woo – a fun music and dance class for 1-5 year olds. Last term Immy’s favourite dance was the ‘plate dance.’ It’s a wonderfully, simple idea – all of the children and adults are each given two plastic plates to use as cymbal-like percussion instruments as the Can Can music […]
Gardening With Kids: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Immy loves our vegetable garden. I am not sure if I can actually call it a vegetable ‘garden’ as it is really vegetables planted in between the plants in the regular garden and in a few large pots. We are currently renting a home and so this is how our garden grows. I have previously […]
Edible Fingerpaint Recipe for Toddlers
Given that the weather has become rather less desirable for outings we decided to have a day on our staycation. One activity I have been meaning to try was the edible fingerpaint featured in The Lost Art Of Childhood by Sarah Bryden-Brown (see recipe below). As an early childhood teacher I am very embarrassed to […]
