Enjoy some lovely bubbly fun when you mix up our Valentine’s Day Love Potion with your kids. It’s great for a cold or rainy day indoors. Blowing bubbles is our number one boredom buster at home right now. My kids love to get hands on (and hands in!) with our activities. They love: Exploring different … Read more
We are delighted to be featuring on Adventure of Adams 31Days of Sensory Play blog hop today. We love sensory play and one of our favourite sensory ingredients right now is water beads. For those of you who are unfamiliar with water beads, they come in a variety of different colours and start out as tiny seed … Read more
Waterbeads are a firm favourite with my kids and we are always looking for new ways to use them in our activities. Our favourites so far have been our “Pretend Baking” and “Witches Bubbling Brew” messy play activities. I have been trying to think of a way to incorporate waterbeads into one of our … 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
Little Miss B and myself were invited along to the launch of “Messy Monkeys Messy Play” in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland at the weekend and boy did it get messy! “Messy Monkeys Messy Play” is a new group run by Lucy, where babies and toddlers can splat paint, squelch gloop, splash water and the best … Read more
Do your kids love to get messy? Mine certainly do and our Christmas Trifle Messy Play Activity went down on a storm on a recent play date. We’ve been busy making our Christmas Cards and writing our Christmas lists for Santa this week. The kids have been pouring over their toy catalogues trying to decide what … 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
Use shaving foam and waterbeads to mix up some pretend cakes in this messy toddler pretend play activity. The weather is definitely on the turn over here now. The temperatures are starting to drop and the level of rainfall is increasing (our garden is a mass of huge muddy puddles right now!). Hence we have … Read more
Cool down in the garden with this giant dinosaur ice cube rescue activity. We have been so lucky with the weather over the school holidays and have enjoyed lots of long hot sunny days. To help keep us cool, we have been having fun playing with ice. And our favourite icy activity this week, has … Read more
Bring the beach indoors with these moon sand mini beaches We had great fun making and playing with our very own mini beaches indoors. Perfect for toddlers and big kids alike to enjoy together. How to make Moon Sand mini beaches Basic Moon Sand recipe 8 cups of flour 1 cup of baby oil All … Read more