I once thought about starting a second blog called ‘Girl With a Box‘ because I love the challenge of creating playful resources from something as simple as a cardboard box. There is a new project underway at our house at the moment so I thought there seemed like no better time to present a round […]
Dress Ups: Winging It
Do you ever come across a project online that you just have to try? Right then? When I saw this tutorial at Prudent Baby for dress up wings (found thanks to the wonderful Artful Parent – you are all following Jean’s blog, aren’t you?), I knew we just had to make a set of wings. […]
Literacy Spot #11: Playing Library
Recently Immy asked if we could play visiting the library. Setting up our little library space was very simple, we simply used our existing bookshelf, books and table and decided to use two small blocks as a scanner and a stamp. We gathered together a few cloth bags to act as library bags for the […]
We Play: The Place to Share Your Play Ideas
We are fortunate to have a wonderful babysitter who loves to play and create with Immy. Recently I came home to discover that they had created a family of wooden peg people, dressing them in costumes made from coloured electrical tape, ‘fabric’ made from paper towel on which they had drawn patterns with felt tipped […]
Pretend Play in Our Home Corner Play Space
I know we are blessed to have a playroom in our house (we traded location for space with our last move) but even when we lived in a smaller home I always tried to find a space (albeit on a much smaller scale) for home corner play as it is such an important part of […]
