Being 2720 kilometres from home for a few days equates to making do without your usual toys, books and spaces to play throughout the day. It means picking carefully and packing light and I cannot tell you how grateful I am for the eight small sticks of coloured plasticine which I packed in our ‘To […]
Installing Speed Bumps to Television Viewing
This post is by regular contributor Tricia Hogbin of Little Eco Footprints. I’d love to have a TV-free home. We’ve lived without a television before and I love the calm and creativity that comes with being screen-free. However, it’s one against two in my household, so the TV stays for now. I’ve managed to negotiate […]
We Play: Come Over and Play With Us!
A quick one from me this week as I am in the throes of e-book creation as Art Not Craft ~ The Process of Learning Creatively comes to life. Fortunately the sunshine continues to shine in our little corner of the world and for the past week it has been thankfully shining with a little […]
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 […]
We Play: It’s Bursting with Playful Ideas
It is still (very!) hot here so water play continues to make an almost daily appearance. This week what was previously a water wonderland for sea creatures became an island getaway for the inhabitants of a rather large cruise ship – otherwise known as a juice bottle with paper sail – all within the cool […]
We Play: Playful Ideas From Around the Web
A common theme in our play for weeks now has been caring for an assortment of ‘babies’. There has been lots of interest in… As well as bathing babies, taking them on excursions to the library and to swimming lessons, taking them on holidays, visits to the movies…the play scenarios continue to change and grow. […]
We Play: Link Up and Play With Us
Our collection of shells has come back into vogue this past week, maybe as it was on the breakfast table and Immy has enjoyed looking at and sorting through the shells as I prepare breakfast. There has been lots of matching, grouping, and talking about shapes, sizes, colours and patterns. We keep our shells in […]
We Play: Because That’s What Kids (Should) Do
I have written before about how young children often have a strong preference for one type of play. And Immy definitely loves her imaginative play! So although this post is about how we have been enjoying our puzzles, I couldn’t help sharing how amused I was to see Immy pull out ‘Old MacDonald’ and incorporate […]
We Play: Let’s Play Together
It has been so hot here lately that our outdoor physical play options have been more than a little limited. Often during the day we incorporate physical play into our indoor play with lots of dancing, yoga moves and even bike riding around the house (!) – mind you Immy is only just learning to […]
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