Do your kids like to tinker with little things? Combine this love with some sensory play in our Play Dough and Loose Parts Play. My kids love too tinker with their little collections of “stuff”. My boys spend hours organising and re-organising their soccer trading cards and lining up their Lego mini-figures all over the … Read more
The kids have been getting along great on their play date, but then they start to run out of playtime ideas, tiredness starts to creep in or worst case scenario they fall out and somebody wants to go home early! What do you do then to get things back on track until collection time? I … Read more
What is your child’s favourite animal? My 7 year old son is mad about hedgehogs, so we have been enjoying lots of prickly fun at home. He has been online finding out lots of fun hedgehog facts to go into his “Animal Report: Hedgehogs” and I set up a simple Play dough Hedgehog activity for … Read more
Do you celebrate Thanksgiving or Harvest Day? Or you maybe you are just looking for a fun new sensory play activity to try with your kids this Fall! There is something to suit everybody right here in our pick of Thanksgiving Sensory Activities. Celebrating the Harvest I grew up in a rural community in the UK. … Read more
Invitation to make… Incy Wincy Spider This fortnight on Rhyme Time we are sharing ideas for activities for the nursery rhyme “Incy Wincy Spider”. “Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the water spout, Down came the rain and washed the spider out, Out came the sunshine and dried up all the rain, And Incy Wincy Spider … Read more
Make your own Valentines Day themed play dough and have fun making some Love Bugs (and more) with it. I had to think of a quick calm down activity for my littlest two yesterday, when Daddy decided to take Liam off for the afternoon to climb a mountain. Usually Daddy would happily take the three … Read more
Keep warm and build these snowmen indoors with some super cool Snow Dough. There is a definite chill in the air now over here on the east coast of Ireland. So we decided to carry this cold feeling into some of our activities last week and started with some Play-dough Snowmen. Perfecting Play-dough I’ve been … Read more