What powers will your Halloween Potion give you? Pour, scoop, squeeze, mix and whisk your way through our spooky potion making station to find out. We can’t walk out of our front door right now, without being scared by a skeleton dangling from a tree or greeted by a giant spider when knocking on a … Read more
Working on fine motor skills and encouraging pretend play, this is the perfect activity to do with your sunflowers at the end of the summer. Did you grow sunflowers with your kids this year? We did and we have had a bumper crop. Our tallest sunflower measured 2.25m (our tallest sunflower to date). But unfortunately … Read more
Invite your pre-schooler to practise their cutting skills on a bunch of fragrant fresh flowers. I really wish that I was better at gardening. I try my best, but apart from a few Sweet Peas, my attempts at growing flowers to cut and bring indoors have been a long list of dismal failures. Hopefully I will … Read more
Our St Patrick’s Day Potion Play is the perfect antidote to banish the “Stuck Indoors Blues”. Plus your pre-schooler with learn about colour mixing and work their fine motor skills in this fun water play activity. The bug doing the rounds at nursery finally caught up with Little Miss B, so she had to spend a … Read more
Take the classic Sink or Float experiment out into your garden this summer for some Summer STEM fun! We are delighted to be joining forces again with our Summer of Fun blogging buddies Mom Inspired Life, Bambini Travel and Planet Smarty Pants. Last month we all shared some awesome water play activities and this … Read more
Engage your toddler in some water play when you mix up our recipe for “Daisy Soup”. Welcome to our Summer of Fun blog hop with Mom Inspired Life, Planet Smarty Pants and Bambini Travel. For the months of June, July and August, we will be sharing themed activities to help keep your kids busy this … Read more
“I’m a Little Teapot, short and stout…” Hearing this nursery rhyme always takes me back to standing in a line with my infant school classmates, singing along and doing the silly actions. Can you remember all of the moves? We are celebrating and sharing activity ideas for “I’m a Little Tea Pot” alongside our Rhyme … Read more
We’re at the very end of January now, so the kids have been back to school for nearly a full month. Already we are starting to crave the school mid-term break, coming up in two weeks time. Freddie especially is coming home exhausted from all the learning he is now doing in Junior Infants. He … Read more