Add a touch of magic to your Christmas activities with this free printable pack, perfect for light tables, play dough and creative play! Designed to engage little people during the holiday season, this set encourages hands-on fun and exploration.
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Children explore their world around them using their five senses, hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch. Creating a five senses investigation centre or table
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I am a big fan of learning centres in classrooms! They are a great place for children to explore, investigate, take risks and consolidate
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LOOK at the picture, SAY the word and HEAR the beginning sound!
The printable Beginning Letter Sounds Matching Mats are a great visual resource and activity to support the awareness of letter sound relationships.
It helps children connect the beginning sound in a word and the letter that makes that sound.
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Kids love to play Hide and Seek!
These Christmas Hide and Seek Activity Mats are perfect for children to play at Christmas time.
Children will love to search for the different Christmas pictures hidden amongst other Christmas pictures, cover them with counters and record the total found in the grid.
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Counting collections provides valuable opportunities for children to practice their oral counting and to develop efficient counting strategies. The Truck Theme Counting Numbers 1-20
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Printable Truck Theme Counting Numbers 1-20 Activity Mats are a maths activity where students learn to count small collections 1-20 and make connections between the symbols and quantities.
The Counting Numbers 1-20 Activity Mats provide hands-on play opportunities and are perfect for small group, independent and learning centre activities.
Children count small collections and stack them to next to the matching number on the bright colourful Truck Theme Mats.
No cutting required…print and play!
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Spin, find and cover…
Children will love to Spin & Cover with this super fun Christmas game!
The Christmas Spin and Build or Cover Game Mats are perfect for distinguishing differences between objects, matching objects and fine motor skills through hands-on play opportunities.
Print and play!
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Kids love to play Games!
Spin, find and build… Children will love to spin & build with this super fun Christmas game!
The Christmas Spin and Build or Cover Game Mats are perfect for classifying and matching objects and fine motor skills through hands-on play opportunities.
There are 18 bright and colourful game mats that are varied for different skills level.
The Printable Christmas Spin and Build is a fun game for children to play this festive season. ,
Print and play!
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Print and play the Counting and Subitising Dice Activity Dot Mats to support children’s early maths skills such as counting, subitising and addition.
The Printable Counting and Subitising Pack encourages hands-on activities using tactile objects such as dice, number spinners, tokens and pompoms.
So simple to make! Bright and colourful pictures to play with!
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I am a big fan of learning centres in classrooms! They are great places for children to explore, investigate, take risks and consolidate previous
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The Printable Colour Matching Activities Pack is perfect for classifying and matching coloured objects, developing colour recognition and fine motor skills through hands-on play opportunities.
The Colour Matching Activities Pack includes 3 different fun sort and match activities that can be adapted and extended for numerous learning opportunities.
Print and play!
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A neat little folder containing moveable alphabet letter tiles is a great way to promote early reading and spelling skills. The folder is designed
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Create an inviting space for children to play, learn and practice their knowledge of letters and sounds by setting up a Letters and Sounds
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The Letters and Sounds Word Builder Mats Phase 3 Bundle encourages children to manipulate sounds to create simple words (and non-words) and write them down in the space provided.
They are a useful resource for consolidating phoneme and grapheme recognition, segmenting and blending skills.
The bundle incudes 38 Word Builder Mats in Colour and 38 Word Builder Mats in B&W, Phase 3 phonemes, j v w x y z/zz qu ch sh th ng ai ee igh oa oi oo (short) oo (long) ow ar u or air ear.
No prep printable word builder mats! Print and laminate for a reusable hands-on activity.
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The Letters and Sounds Word Builder Mats Bundle encourages children to manipulate sounds to create simple words (and non-words) and write them down in the space provided.
They are a useful resource for consolidating phoneme and grapheme recognition, segmenting and blending skills.
The bundle incudes 23 Word Builder Mats in Colour and 23 Word Builder Mats in B&W, Phase 2 phonemes, s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f/-ff l/-ll ss.
No prep printable word builder mats! Print and laminate for a reusable hands-on activity.
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Exploring volume and capacity through hands-on activities will help children develop an awareness of these measurement concepts. Volume and capacity are properties of
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The Printable Alphabet Picture and Letter Cards are great for matching activities and consolidating letter -sound knowledge.
It is a great hands-on activity using tactile alphabet letters and objects that begin with each letter of the alphabet and matching them to the picture and letter cards.
So simple to make! Bright and colourful! Cute Alphabet Letter Characters!
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Create your very own Moveable Alphabet Word Building Folder for children to build and manipulate words. This printable kit comes with everything you need to create a Moveable Alphabet Folder for children to use to practice and build confidence with their reading and spelling skills.
The Moveable Alphabet Folder is a fun and hands-on opportunity for children to apply their letters and sounds knowledge to build and manipulate phonemes in words. It supports their phonemic and phonological awareness.
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The Printable Handwriting Flipbook is an updated version of the Alphabet Tracing Mats. The purpose of this product is to assist children to trace the letters to help with the learning process and correct letter formation.
When laminated the Handwriting Tracing Mats become a reusable dry erase sheet that you can write on them with a whiteboard marker and then simply wipe off with a tissue, cloth or magic erasers.
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A Pretend Play Flower Shop is an opportunity for children to take on the role as a florist or customer and play creatively while
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The Measurement Capacity Mats are a bright, colourful and fun printable activity to engage students to compare and measure (non-standard) the capacity of different size jars.
There are two types of activity mats, Fill the Jars and Count how many? and Compare Quantities (Full, Half Full and Empty).
No prep printable measuring capacity mats! Print and laminate for a reusable activity.
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Letter Sounds Cut, Sort and Paste Printable Activity allows children to apply their letter sound knowledge to create words phonetically and then to apply
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No prep or laminating required, just print! 23 Documents and Instructions. Each document comes with a colour and black and white option.
The Letter Sounds Cut and Paste Printable Bundle is a hands-on, interactive activity that supports children in their journey of learning to read. It provides children with the opportunity to practice the segmentation and blending of simple decodable words, phonemic awareness skills and support phoneme-grapheme mapping.
Follows the progression of the Letters and Sounds Systematic Phonics Program and covers Phase 2 and Phase 3 Sounds.
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ANZAC Day Poppy Activity- creating beautiful red craft poppies on a background of ‘Lest We Forget’ is a great activity for young students to
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The Printable Measuring Length Learning Centre Mats provide a hands-on opportunity for children to indirectly measure a range of pictures and write their answers
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The Measuring Length Activity Mats provide a hands-on opportunity for children to indirectly measure a range of pictures and write their answers on a record sheet. Includes 6 recording mats and 16 pictures to measure. All six recording sheets are different. Laminate the measurement recording sheets and pictures for a re-usable teaching resource.
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This measurement lesson was inspired by the story The Really Really Big Dinosaur by Richard Byrne. It really got my Pre-primary (4-5 year olds)
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I am always looking for playful and inviting ways for kids to develop their fine motor and hand-eye coordination skills using fun resources. These felt
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Funnels, tubes, sifts, bottles, scoopers, spoons, bottle tops and SAND! The perfect sensory play recipe for kids with endless fun and exploration. There are
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Tea Leaves Scented Play Dough Recipe is naturally coloured, textured and scented from the addition of tea leaves to a basic play dough recipe.
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The Dot-to-Dot Shapes Charts are a re-usable printable that can be used part of learning centres, small group activities or independently to learn how to draw several two-dimensional shapes.
Includes 15 shapes, circle, square, rectangle, triangle, oval, heart, star, crescent (and moon), rhombus (and kite), semi-circle, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon and trapezoid.
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Creating patterns, swirls, squiggles and zig-zags with buttons, children will have so much fun playing with this fine motor work station or learning centre
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Bugs and Bottle Tops is a simple and fun activity for kids to play with. It is a great opportunity for children to develop
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Creative Sand Art Activity was inspired by reading the story Magic Beach by Alison Lester (affiliate link). This activity is open-ended and great for multi-age
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Today I am sharing two measurement math centre activities I have been doing with my Pre Primary class (5 year olds). I have been
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The Printable Measurement Activity Mats (STANDARD PRINT) are a great addition to any early childhood or junior primary learning environment. The mats provide a hands-on activities opportunity for children to compare objects directly by placing one against the other. Children can play and measure with play dough, leaves, sticks, straws, string and so much more!
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The Printable Measurement Activity Mats (CURSIVE PRINT) are a great addition to any early childhood or junior primary learning environment. The mats provide a hands-on activities opportunity for children to compare objects directly by placing one against the other. Children can play and measure with play dough, leaves, sticks, straws, string and so much more!
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I am always looking for fun ways to encourage and motivate children in developing their fine motor and writing skills. I made these DIY
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Counting with Dominoes – dominoes are a great learning resources and an excellent manipulative for developing number sense and maths skills. They build upon
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The Printable CVC Words Bundle Activity Pack includes 8 different CVC word activities that are developmental. There are photos, instructions and suggested ideas included
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The Printable CVC Words Bundle Activity Pack includes 8 different CVC word activities that are developmental. There are photos, instructions and suggested ideas included in the pack. Over 100 pages of colourful, bright and inviting cards ready for printing, laminating to create a re-useable teaching resource.
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Hands-on sight word activities are a motivating way to help children learn how to read common sight words. Making Sight Words in Play Dough
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Dominoes is such a fun and popular game with children! These DIY Pop Stick Shape Dominoes Games is a resource I have made for
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How to Colour Sand for Sensory Play, is a quick and easy step by step guide on creating your very own colourful sand for
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This basic shapes activity provides children with the opportunity to explore and create with shapes. The activity involves placing coloured gems along the lines
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Cardboard boxes would have to be my most favourite ‘toy’ for children to play with as they are an open-ended material. They inspire creativity
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Painting with Balloons is a great activity for kids to explore creatively and imaginatively as they create freely using simple props in an open-ended
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Fireworks Theme Maths – to keep within our celebration and fireworks theme, I have set up a couple of number and measurement activities to
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Painting Fireworks is a super easy and fun New Year’s Day Celebration activity – Creating Fireworks with Paint! Using some of the left over
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Sparkly Fireworks Sensory Tub is a simple sensory fireworks play idea, following on from our Fireworks Play Dough activity. It is a great celebration
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Fireworks Celebration Play Dough Activity is a super fun, colourful, sparkly and textured play dough. The addition of tinsel to the recipe was to
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Homemade Celebration Fireworks Play Dough Recipe is a super fun, colourful, sparkly and textured play dough. The addition of tinsel to the recipe was
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The Christmas Sensory Fine Motor Bin is a fun and engaging activity that provides children with the opportunity to explore all the items in
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Looking for a super easy Christmas or Festive painting activity for the kids to do? Finger Painting Festive Lights is really simple to set
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Free Printable Sight Word Cards – Sight words are a term used to describe a group of common or high frequency words that a
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Pool Noodle Activities Fine Motor are so much fun to play with! When they are cut up into smaller portions they make a great
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Sorting Coloured Buttons is an easy activity to set up which promotes colour recognition, measurement and classifying skills. These colourful buttons are so inviting
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Printable Dot to Dot Alphabet Letter Charts Here are a fun way to learn how to write letters – the correct way! The Dot-to-Dot Alphabet
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Homemade Eye Spy Sensory Bag are the ideal quiet activity to keep little hands busy and entertained in the car, appointments, shopping and other
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The Dot-to-Dot Alphabet Letter Charts (lowercase A-Z) are a re-usable printable that can be used part of learning centres, small group activities or independently to learn the correct formation of writing alphabet letters.
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Ocean Theme Transient Art Activity is an opportunity for children to explore, manipulate and create freely their ideas using an empty frame to and an
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Counting Gingerbread Play Dough Men is a Christmas, play dough and counting activity all inspired by the story the story Ten Gingerbread Men by
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The Paper Plate Umbrella Craft was a creative activity inspired by the story Ella’s Umbrellas by Jennifer Lloyd (affiliate link) and other activities we
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Homemade Scented Gingerbread Play Dough is beautifully scented and coloured to mimic freshly baked gingerbread cookies. The smell of gingerbread is generally associated with
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The Paper Plate Christmas Tree Counting Decoration is two activities rolled up into one. It is an interactive counting activity where children ‘decorate’ the
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Free Printable Number Match Counting Wheel – Children will have so much fun counting out loud and matching numbered pegs in this Number Match
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Green Sandy Play Dough Shape Monsters – Play Dough is such a fun learning tool to play with and explore new concepts. It also
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Looking for something a little different to standard play dough? No Cook Sandy Play Dough Recipe. Not that anything is wrong with standard play
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Children will have so much fun with the variety of activities included in the Ultimate Christmas Printable Activity Pack. There are 100 pages with
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The Ultimate Christmas Printable Activities Pack includes a huge range of reusable templates, games, and tactile activities that will entertain children at Christmas time. It is a great addition to any early childhood environment or numeracy and literacy program.
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Painting on the easel provides an opportunity for children to be creative and incorporate art into theme based programs. Painting Clouds on the Easel
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The Minion Play Dough Fun activity was inspired by the Minions in the movie Despicable Me. Over the recent school holidays, we had a
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Printable Counting Raindrops Game – Kids love games and learn so many important skills through playing them. Counting Raindrops Game Boards and Play Dough Mats
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Counting Raindrops Printable Maths Games and Activities (STANDARD) are a great addition to any early childhood environment and numeracy program.
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Counting Raindrops Printable Maths Games and Activities (CURSIVE) are a great addition to any early childhood environment and numeracy program. Kids love games and learn so many important skills through playing them.
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The Z is for Zip It Zipper Board is perfect for any early children classroom or home environment where children can access the board
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Big and Small Measurement Sort involves sorting big and small umbrellas (cupcake cases/patty pans) is a simple activity to introduce children to early measurement
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List of Simple and Fun Name Activities – Learning to read your name is one of the first words your child will learn to
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V is for Vegetables Letter V Activity was inspired by the book Vegetables in a Van and Oliver’s Vegetables by Vivian French. It is
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Fine Motor Fun Feeding the Birds – Fine motor skills are the foundation children need before they are able to learn handwriting, in order
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We have been doing lots of activities that have been inspired from reading the book Little Cloud by Eric Carle. Miss 5 was keen
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Colour Match Cars Painting is super fun activity that involves creating wheel patterns from cars with paint while matching and learning about colours. Children
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R is for Ribbons Letter R Activity is an activity that involves children cutting up small pieces of ribbon and gluing them onto the
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Hands On Learning Shapes Activities – Learning about and recognising basic shapes is so much more fun and motivating when it is hands-on. Children
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Create a Number Line 1 to 20 is a fun hands-on number awareness activity that involves recognising and organising numerals 1 to 20. It
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What is magnetic? Sorting and Exploring Materials is a fun science concept for children to explore magnets. Setting up a Magnetic Sorting Tray will
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The Best Play Dough Recipe- I have tried several play dough recipes over the years but this one would have to be my favourite
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The Printable Dot-to dot Number Rhyme Charts are a fun way to learn how to write numbers – the correct way! The Dot-to dot
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U is for Umbrella Letter U Activity was inspired by the book Ella’s Umbrellas by Jennifer Lloyd, Illustrated by Ashley Spires (affiliate link). It
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F is for Feather Fish Painting is an activity is an activity that was inspired by the story Hooray for Fish by Lucy Cousins.
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Children will love the fun Number Characters! Dot-to-Dot Number Rhyme Charts Standard Print.
Count, follow and join the numbered dots to form the number. Sing the number rhymes to guide you through what strokes to make when forming the correct number shape.
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Children will love the fun Number Characters! Dot-to-Dot Number Rhyme Charts Cursive Print (numbers 0-9).
Count, follow and join the numbered dots to form the number. Sing the number rhymes to guide you through what strokes to make when forming the correct number shape.
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The kids are going to love this!!! Homemade Rubbery Goop is perfect for sensory play opportunities as it is safe and non-toxic using basic
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Primary Colours Squishy Bag Experiment is a wonderful sensory experience for children to see how colours mix and form other colours. Children use their
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Printable Alphabet Letter Tracing Mats are a great way to assist children with, fine motor coordination, letter formation, pre-writing and handwriting development. The Alphabet
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Printable Number Tracing Mats are a great way to assist children with, fine motor coordination and control, number formation, pre-writing and handwriting development. The
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Letter Spotting in Big Books is a great way for children to become little reading detectives and play and learn with alphabet letters. It
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Build a City Counting and Subitising Game will be an instant hit with your little mathematicians. It is a super fun game where children
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Playing with the Magical Fairy Wonderland was such a magical moment for Miss 5 as she is absolutely crazy for all things fantasy and
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Growing Watercress Shapes is such as cute activity to do. It is perfect for bringing a little bit of science fun into classrooms, day-cares,
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Taking a little idea and making it BIG! Children have limitless imaginations and come up with the most amazing ideas. Recently while having a
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Full set A-Z Alphabet Letters Tracing Mats CURSIVE print in Fun Rainbow Theme.
Plus receive a Free Follow the Line Printable with this downloadable product!
Just print and laminate these Tracing Mats for a re-usable resource children can learn and play with.
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Full set of Number & Alphabet Letters Tracing Mats STANDARD print in Fun Rainbow Theme.
Plus receive a Free Follow the Line Printable with this downloadable product!
Just print and laminate these Tracing Mats for a re-usable resource children can learn and play with.
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Full set of Number & Alphabet Letters Tracing Mats CURSIVE print in Fun Rainbow Theme.
Plus receive a Free Follow the Line Printable with this downloadable product!
Just print and laminate these Tracing Mats for a re-usable resource children can learn and play with.
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Full Set A-Z Alphabet Letters Tracing Mats STANDARD print in Fun Rainbow Theme
Plus receive a Free Follow the Line Printable with this downloadable product!
Just print and laminate these Tracing Mats for a re-usable resource children can learn and play with.
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Full set of Number Tracing Mats in Fun Rainbow Theme
Plus receive a Free Follow the Line Printable with this downloadable product!
Just print and laminate these Tracing Mats for a re-usable resource children can learn and play with.
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The Zig Zag Zebra Play Dough Activity with free printable play dough mats was inspired by the book Zed the Zebra by An Vrombaut.
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Maths Activities for Getting Ready for School- Giving children a solid foundation in early maths literacy is important to their future academic success. Engaging
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Number Sort with 10 Frames is a fun, hands on activity to play and learn with numbers. It sets a challenge of searching for specific numbers
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How to colour rice for sensory play? The information in this post provides a step by step guide outlining how we colour our rice
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Q is for Quilt Letter Q Activity is an activity that was inspired by the book The Quilt by Ann Jonas. It is a
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Rice and Ice Sensory Activity is a fun activity that provides an opportunity to play with rhyming words, explore scientific concepts and learn about primary
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Bucket of Colourful Spaghetti Worms Sensory Play – Sensory fun and messy play at its best! A bucket filled with coloured spaghetti worms with
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The Rainbow Fish Play Dough Activity was inspired by the book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister (affiliate link). This book is certainly one
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The Rainbow Fish Play Dough Recipe is a brilliant blue play dough matching the beautiful shades of blue in the story The Rainbow Fish
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Pre-Writing Activities with Squishy Bags is a great way to target writing skills without using paper and pencils. It is providing a fun and
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Cloud Theme Sensory Bin is another activity that is part of our cloud series. The sensory bin is made up of cotton wool balls,
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Vanilla Play Dough Recipe is a sweet smelling play dough that heightens the wonderful sensory experience of playing with play dough. This recipe was
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How to make Squishy Sensory Bags?- Squishy bags are perfect for sensory play without the mess. They are cheap and easy to make and
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Microwave Play Dough Recipe is so easy to make at home and will provide hours of fun for kids of all ages. This recipe
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T is for Tiger Tea Party Story Retell activity involves bringing the story alive through sensory play. We created a sensory tub using various
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Exploring Mixing Primary Colours Activity – Colours are everywhere and it is a wonderful experience for children to see how colours mix and form
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Printable Number Play Dough Mats with tens frames are playful, bright, and colourful with happy friendly number characters. They are so inviting, children will love
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Lowercase A-Z Alphabet Play Dough Mats CURSIVE Print – Fun Alphabet Characters theme.
Just print and laminate these Play Dough Mats for a re-usable resource children can learn and play with.
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Lowercase A-Z Alphabet Play Dough Mats STANDARD Print – Fun Alphabet Characters theme
Just print and laminate these Play Dough Mats for a re-usable resource children can learn and play with.
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Full set of Number & Alphabet Play Dough Mats in CURSIVE Print – Fun Alphabet and Number Characters Theme
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Full set of Number & Alphabet Play Dough Mats in STANDARD Print – Fun Alphabet and Number Characters theme
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Number Play Dough Mats STANDARD Print with Tens Frame – Fun Number Characters theme.
Just print and laminate these Play Dough Mats for a re-usable resource children can learn and play with.
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Number Play Dough Mats CURSIVE PRINT with Tens Frame – Fun Number Characters theme.
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Digging For Dinosaur Fossils Sensory Bin: I previously shared an activity here on How to make Dinosaur Fossils? This is how we played with
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How to make Sand Foam? Sand Foam is perfect for sensory exploration. It is made up using only two ingredients, sand and shaving cream.
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Threading Activity for Kids: When setting up this threading activity for kids, my goal was to make it bright and inviting using different materials.
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Cloud in a Jar Experiment is an extension activity from our C is Cotton Cloud Collage. Both activities have been inspired by the book Little
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How to make Dinosaur Fossils? Dinosaur Fossils are so much fun to make and are a great addition for any dinosaur theme learning experience.
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Water Play with Eye Droppers is a colourful and fun activity that encourages development of the pincer grasp. The pincer grasp enables a child
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Sorting Shapes in our Sensory Bin is a fun activity for children to learn about shapes, colours while developing their fine motor skills. This
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Alphabet Ice and Shaving Cream is a fun-filled, messy sensory play activity that children can explore their senses and learn about alphabet letters in
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C is for Cotton Cloud Letter C Activity is an activity that was inspired by the book Little Cloud by Eric Carle. It is
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This simple car craft activity for kids provides the opportunity for so much fun and learning. Firstly, making a car craft can be used
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Fine Motor Skills – Sorting by Colour activity encourages the development of fine motor skills and provides children with the opportunity to learn and
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Letter N Activity – Newspaper Collage N is for Night sky and Newspaper Collage Making a Newspaper Collage and Night Sky is a fun
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I have been having lots of fun shopping and stocking up on my Easter art and craft supplies at The Reject Shop. I went
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These Honey Muesli Biscuits are so simple to make and are perfect as a small treat for the kid’s lunch boxes, afterschool snack, picnics,
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Counting Numbers 1 – 10 activity provides children with an opportunity to play and count with numbers 1 – 10. Hanging the numbers from
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These Paper Plate Autumn Craft look so gorgeous sitting up on a window as the light filters through. They are such as simple craft
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Scoop and catch fun! Bottle Top Soup Game is a fun sensory activity using simple items found around the home. Kids love to play
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Buttons and Pop (Popsicle) Sticks is an invitation to play opportunity for children to explore and experiment freely with the basic items provided. Children
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A basket filled with a range of different coloured fake flowers can open the opportunity to learn in so many ways. Children can explore
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How to make Egg Carton Easter Egg Baskets? These Egg Carton Easter Egg Baskets are just too cute and so easy to make! They
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I made these Sense of Smell Swatches and Sense of Touch Boards last year for a early years class I was teaching. They were
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Kids love pegs, they are bright, colourful and attract the interest of children. Pegs are perfect for play ideas, activities and crafts! They are
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This Hot Air, Cold Air Science Activity is a great experiment to watch the effects of hot air and cold air on a balloon.
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The kids are going to love this!! Digging for Spaghetti Worms in Dirt is a simple sensory activity that only takes a few moments
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Making Sugar Crystals on a Stick are simple to make and the kids will enjoy eating the finished product. It is a great opportunity
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As I headed home and was sitting on the plane (10 and ½ hours), it got me thinking about what kinds of things would
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These Twiggy Christmas Shakers are super easy make and will bring lots of fun and play into your house or classroom this Christmas. In
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This Fine Motor Busy Bag involves matching colours by placing the peg on the matching coloured sponge square. I was nearly going to call
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We are heading home on Wednesday and I thought I would share with you some photos of the magical hotel I have
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There is just so much to learn and discover about deserts, the climate, plant life, animal life and much more. To explore the desert
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Creating your own Underwater Zoo provides an opportunity to play and learn imaginatively. It is also a sensory activity that encourages creativity, oral language
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I absolutely adore the vibrant and bright colours of this jelly play dough. It is perfect for a Summer Theme Play Dough Invitation to
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I have always loved watching little chubby fingers squishing and squashing play dough. I am not really sure what it is that I adore
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I absolutely love the vibrancy of the colours and scent of our Summer Scented Jelly Play Dough. Jelly Play Dough is a super easy
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Sorting Christmas Bells is an easy activity to set up which promotes colour recognition and classifying skills. These colourful bells are so inviting and
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As the weeks and days draw closer until our trip to Dubai, my stomach churns with excitement and I also have the anticipation of
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This Fine Motor Busy Bag involves matching colours by pressing and pinching the peg onto the matching coloured flower or button shape. It is
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This Busy Bag of Paper Clips and Colours is so simple to make and a fun activity children will enjoy completing. It is great
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This Edible Play Dough Recipe for Babies, is a great ‘first time’ play dough for babies and toddlers. It is super easy to make,
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We have been talking about seasons a lot in our house, particularly as the weather begins to warm up and the sun rising earlier
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Let’s Count, sort and match numbers with this fun hands-on activity that promotes learning to count and number recognition. Children will have fun playing
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These cardboard roll aeroplanes are so simple to make and the kids will continue to play with long after the creating part. This activity
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These FREE printable Counting Mats are a fun and colourful counting activity for pre-schoolers and kindergarten children to provide an opportunity to count out
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Balancing Marbles on LEGO® DUPLO® helps children develop fundamental skills such as fine motor control, hand & eye coordination, patience and concentration. This is
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Insect Prints in Play Dough is a fun sensory and fine motor activity that children will enjoy making different patterns and fossil-like prints in play
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N is for necklace and noodles – Noodle Necklace! Making Noodle Necklaces is a fun activity to introduce young children to learn about the
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LEGO® DUPLO® is one of these toys that will grow with your child/ren, be utilised in a number of play opportunities, it is durable,
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Homemade Edible Finger Paint is perfect for babies aged 6-18 months , toddlers and children who are more likely to place paint covered fingers
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Melting Insects in Ice is fun activity to introduce children and pre-schoolers to the letter I. It is such a fun opportunity to talk
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Sensory tubs are such great teaching tools and when I was recently cleaning out our pantry, I found a couple of mixed soup packets
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Painting with Pompoms is a fun activity for kids and toddlers to explore colours and experiment with a new paint tool. It is so
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Play Dough Dinosaur Printing: “Stomp Chomp, Big Roars, Here Come the Dinosaurs!” I absolutely love the name of this book by Kaye Umansky and
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Here in Australia we are leading up to Father’s Day this Sunday. In past we have made several crafts and homeamde gifts and have
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T is for Tiger Craft is a super simple and fun craft activity to expose children to the letter Tt, identify what the letter
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Lavender Scented Play Dough and Wooden Tool Set is a great activity for kids to explore creatively and imaginatively as they create freely using
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Lavender Scented Play Dough Recipe creates lightly scented lavender play dough that stimulates the senses while creating and playing. It is a silky smooth
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This Space Theme Play Dough Activity opens the window of opportunity for learning and play in so many ways. It provides an invitation for
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Number Pegs Boards Free Printable is an activity to help children recognise numbers in a fun, engaging and hands-on learning opportunity. My children and
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There are numerous sensory play ideas and activities for playing with cloud dough and I look forward to sharing more here on Learning 4
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Cloud Dough which can sometimes be called Moon Sand is a homemade mixture used for sensory play experiences. The consistency of Cloud Dough can be
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Space Play Dough is a recipe designed to create a type of play dough that imitates the space or the galaxy sky. It is
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Catch and Scoop is a fun and engaging activity that encourages fine motor development and scissor skills. This activity is great for sensory exploration
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Number Line Counting is a maths activity that involves children sorting numbers along the number line. It is a great way for children to
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Light Tables or Light Panels are a fabulous learning tool that enhance sensory play opportunities. The activities and learning experiences are endless and encourage
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Coconut Play Dough and Wooden Buttons is a great activity for kids to explore their creativity and imagination as they create freely using simple props
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This Sorting and Matching Activity involves matching the small coloured elastic bands (loom bands) and placing them over the matching coloured push pins that
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Bb is for Buttons, Brown Bear, Blue, and Bubble wrap! The aim of these activities is to expose children to the letter Bb, identify
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In early childhood education Finger Painting is often the very first painting experience children will encounter. As simple as it may be putting paint
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Sorting Number Stickers is a number recognition activity that involves sorting and matching numbers. Miss 3 absolutely loved doing this activity. She loves stickers
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Books are a wonderful way of exploring and learning about a new concept. It provides as an introduction and also an extension of the
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Messy, sensory play at its best! Shaving cream is great for sensory exploration and provides endless opportunities for children to play and discover. You
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Learning to count with Dominoes Cookies is a fabulous, fun and motivating activity for kids. So much learning happens when we cook with our
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Match the Dots Printables for Alphabet Letters, Numbers and Shapes is a great activity for fine motor development, control and concentration. It is also
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Make a Play Dough Teddy Bear is an inviting activity for kids to explore their imagination and experiment with the tools provided and make
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Dot Painting Name Activity is a fun and simple way to introduce your child to recognising their name and the letters that make up
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Alphabet Sort is a simple, fun and engaging hands-on literacy activity children can play to help them learn and recognise letters. Learning the letter
This Science Learning Tray Activity is a bit of fun for children to explore Bi-Carbonate Soda (baking soda) and Coloured Vinegar. The reaction between these
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Threading Pipe Cleaners with Straws involves threading smaller length straws onto longer length pipe cleaners. It is a great fine motor activity that is
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The Coconut Play Dough Recipe is a beautifully scented and textured play dough adding to the sensory experience when playing with play dough. It
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Alphabet Activities – Letter A Activities The aim of these activities is to expose children to the letter Aa, identify what the letter Aa
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Sugars Cubes are great for exploring science concepts Absorption and Dissolving using coloured water. Children will have fun playing and experimenting with the coloured water
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Using an easel covered with sticky contact is a wonderful creative tool and canvas that will entice kids to play creatively and imaginatively. Setting
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Cardboard rolls are great for activities and crafts. Since Christmas I have collected a number of cardboard rolls left over from wrapping paper. It
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Old Mac Donald had a Farm is a favourite nursery rhyme in our house at the moment and we have read (and sang)
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Coloured Ice Boats is a fun sensory activity for children to explore colour. As the ice melt it creates coloured water to mix and
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Floating and sinking is a fun science concept for children to explore. Setting up a Floating and Sinking Learning Tray will invite them to
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Super soft play dough is a wonderfully textured play dough that will invite children to explore their imaginations and play creatively. Children can pretend to be
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Neapolitan Ice Cream Play Dough is a wonderful and fun sensory activity to arouse the imagination and creativity. The Neapolitan Ice Cream Play
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Neapolitan Ice Cream Scented Play Dough Recipe smells and looks like real Neapolitan ice cream. Children will have hours of fun playing and moulding
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Exploring Colours with a Mirror is a great way for children to play and learn with colours. The mirror reflects light which imitates a
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These Homemade Number Puzzles are a matching number activity that can be easily incorporated into the home or classroom environment. They are super easy
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Shape Toss is a fun way to introduce and play with shapes. It also gets children up and active while learning about shapes and
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It is amazing how giving kids the most simplest of props can inspire and encourage their imagination and creativity. There are no rules, no
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This Numbers and Counting Activity is an opportunity for children to play and learn with numbers. The activity involves children counting out the value
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Sandy Beach Theme Play Dough added with other beach theme items is the perfect invitation to play for children as it will arouse their
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Recently we took part in a Backyard
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Water Beads and Ice is an open-ended and hands-on sensory play opportunity. They are so much fun as they are about the size of
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Placing white roses into coloured water is a great science activity to demonstrate absorption. Children will be amazed and excited to see the changes
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Super Soft Play Dough is a quick and easy, no cook recipe. The play dough is incredibly soft and silky smooth and the conditioner
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Making your own Salt Dough Rainbow is a great way of creating a homemade toy for your child to play with. Shaping the salt
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Sandy Beach Play Dough is a wonderfully textured play dough that imitates beach sand. It looks and feels like beach sand. Children will have
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Sorting Coloured Pompoms is fabulous hands-on fine motor learning tray. It is so simple to set up, colourful, engaging and is sure to
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5 Little Speckled Frogs or 5 Green Speckled Frogs has always been a favourite nursery rhyme of mine. The oral language and numeracy benefits
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Flower Printing: Today I was about to put some old flowers from a vase into the bin as they were no longer looking their
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Come play and learn with the colour ORANGE, we have lots of activities and play ideas! As part of our Learning Colours Series here on
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When I think of a refreshing summer’s drink,
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Matching and Sorting Colours with match sticks is fabulous hands-on fine motor learning tray. It is so simple to set up, colourful, engaging and
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This Zesty Lemon Scented Play Dough has a refreshing and zesty lemon scent which adds to the wonderful sensory experience of playing with play
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What will happen if we placed sultanas into a glass of soda water? Watch and be amazed!!! Dancing Sultanas is a super easy and
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Create an opportunity for your child to take on the role as a pizza chef and play creatively as they pretend make different pizzas
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Using an easel covered with sticky contact is a wonderful creative tool and canvas that will entice kids to play and learn about shapes.
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Sweet Apple Scented Play Dough is a beautiful textured play dough that smells just like an apple, adding to the wonderful sensory play experience.
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Threading beads onto pipe cleaners is a fabulous fine motor learning tray activity for toddlers and kids. It is so simple to set up,
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What shapes can you find in the salt tray? They are hidden under the salt; use your paint brush to sift through the salt
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Imaginative play would have to be one of my most favourite kinds of play. I love how children can freely explore an imaginary world
‘R’ is for Rain & Making a Rain
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Making Minty Candy Cane Scented Play Dough Ornaments is an open-ended opportunity to play in an unstructured way, allowing children to explore their creativity and
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Minty Candy Cane Scented Play Dough Recipe is beautiful, freshly scented play dough for the kids to play and create with this Christmas. It has
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Our Homemade DIY Skittles & Games would have to be one of the most played with toys in our house. My girls are continuously
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Kids will have lots of fun making and playing with our Paper Plate Christmas Masks. Both the Reindeer and Santa Paper Plate Masks encourages imaginative play
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Recently I shared a recipe for Jelly Play Dough; this is what we did with it! We created some funny Jelly Play Dough Critters,
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This Handprint Christmas Tree Craft is a great activity for kids and toddlers and it is so simple to do! Creating a Christmas Tree
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Let me introduce you to You & Baby, a wonderful online shop dedicated to selling parent approved baby and
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Turn your old christmas cards from last year or the new ones you receive this year into a fabulous Homemade Christmas decoration that the kids
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Create a wonderful place to put Santa’s cup of milk and cookie on Christmas Eve with a fun, simple and colourful Christmas Collage Placemat.
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I believe there is a place for a little rote learning and flash cards but I truly believe that most of the learning happens when
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Scented Spring Play Dough has a beautiful smelling fragrance of flowers and flecks of coloured flower petals to bring together some of the wonderful
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Kids absolutely love water parks, so with the beautiful warm spring weather in full swing here in Australia I thought we would set up
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Subitising refers to immediately knowing how many items lie within a visual scene for a small number of items. It is to have a
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Today I am very excited to share a guest post with you, Ali from At Home with Ali. Be sure to visit her fabulous blog for more
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We’re going on a ‘Teddy’ bear hunt…….I’m not scared! We have a gorgeous book which comes with a CD that tells the story of
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Here is a list of rainbow activities and learning experiences for toddlers and kids. You will find rainbow crafts, sensory play, fine motor activities and
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This activity was FUN, REALLY FUN!! Kids love to get messy, it comes with being a kid as they explore their natural curiosity about
When I saw these fabulous homemade paint brushes on my newsfeed on Facebook shared by the Dirt Girl World fan page, I instantly wanted
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Alphabet match is a fun hands-on activity for kids to help recognise and learn their alphabet letters. It is also a great opportunity to
These milk numbers shown in the photo are made using milk and vinegar. Mixing milk and vinegar together is an interesting science experiment to
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Rainbow Salt Tray is a fun and inviting pre-writing activity. Why would you need crayons, textas, pencils and paper to draw when you can
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If you haven’t made Gloop yet, then this is a must for any toddler or child to try. It is super fun and super
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When our play room starts getting messy and I find it increasingly impossible to motivate the kids to tidy it up, I find this
Making your own Felt Ice Creams while learning your colours!! This is such a fun hands on activity for kids to promote the learning
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With Miss 5 at school full time now and Miss 4 going to kindy 2 – 3 times a week, it has opened up
We had so much fun making numbers with our Orange Scented Play Dough. It is a fun activity to introduce or reinforce learning about
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Setting up a Baby Care Home Corner encourages imaginative play and promotes many valuable life skills. I hope this post provides you with some
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Sensory awareness goes hand in hand with creativity. Sensory play arouses children’s imaginations, creativity and curiosity through exploration of texture, temperature and fun! Gloop
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Sight words are a term used to describe a group of common or high frequency words that a reader should recognise on sight. Words
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An empty shoe box + elastic bands + a cardboard tube = Homemade Guitar and endless hours of fun! These guitars are such a
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The Numbers Theme Playroom Ideas was inspired and motivated by the current interests of my kids. I feel it is important to follow their
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Recently I shared with you a post about Painting with Homemade Number Stamps, we had endless sheets of painted numbers and I wanted to
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After making our Homemade Volcano and watching the excitement on my kids’ faces as the vinegar and bicarbonate soda reacted together, I thought I
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Back in the days when I was teaching I always aimed at having a classroom that was a literacy and numeracy rich environment. Creating a ‘rich print’ of
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This is a great way for kids to practise writing their numbers!! The Number Tracing Cards are a free printable that can be laminated
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Watching a homemade volcano erupt is a very exciting experience for young children as they watch and learn about the amazing power of these
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Today the kids and I moved the playroom around and it made me realise that I hadn’t even published the last photos here on
Easter egg treasure hunts are always a lot of fun for kids but having one when it is dark outside was a very memorable
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These Colourful Pattern Easter Eggs are a bright and colourful activity for the kids to do this Easter. They are super simple to make,
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All my kids have been blessed this year with the most beautiful teachers; even my little Miss 20 months has a music teacher and
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This will keep the kids busy while having a bath as well as stimulating their imaginations and developing their storytelling skills. Cars, buses, trucks,
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Recently I posted an article about making Chocolate Play Dough Easter Eggs using chocolate moulds and homemade Chocolate Play Dough. The fun did not
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Ice Boats Water Play: Water and ice are great for sensory play with kids as it engages children into a world of exploration and
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This Chocolate Play Dough really looks and smells just like the real thing! YUM!! The chocolate aroma has filled our house this week as
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This Chocolate Play Dough Recipe looks and smells just like the real thing! It is a really easy recipe to follow with all the
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Playing with felt encourages many great learning experiences as it is a sensory toy that involves touching, feeling and manipulating. It promotes creative play, the
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I love all things felt and felt toys would have to be
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Cardboard tubes are a great addition for playing with play dough. The creativity and imagination is endless with this invitation to play. Play dough
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Children have the most amazing imaginations as they love to pretend and play to be something or someone of interest to them. Making masks
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Making Pasta Easter Egg Hanging Decorations is a super easy creative Easter activity for kids. They are so simple to make as kids love
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How fun are these? I just love the
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Paint Pops are a fun and exciting painting activity for kids. It is a great variation to using paint brushes. Kids will have a
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These Pompom Easter Chicks are a simple craft activity for kids to do this Easter! They are super cute and a fun prop to
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My three little chickies played with our Easter Sensory Play Table for hours!! It is amazing how giving kids the most simplest of props/items
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Come along and meet ‘Woofy’, sing a long, be surprised, play and learn a second language whilst having fun.
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Autumn Play Dough Leaf Prints are a great activity to start off the new autumn season. We have been celebrating the new season and
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Nutmeg Scented Autumn Play Dough is a beautiful spicy scented play dough that brings together all the wonderful elements of autumn. The nutmeg, cinnamon,
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Buttons are amazing as there are so many different shapes, sizes, colours, materials and styles. Kids love to run their hands through buttons, sort
We have found a new and fun way to re-use and recycle our cardboard rolls and bottle tops and create them into a wonderful
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I love nursery rhymes and there isn’t a day that goes past where we do not sing one. Sometimes we will change the words
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Since our first play experience with jelly, my kids have been asking if we could do it again. They had so much fun exploring
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From early childhood right through to adulthood we love to play with puzzles. We like the way they challenge our thinking and exercise our
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Let your child’s imagination run wild as they create and explore play dough and pasta. Through moulding and manipulating play dough and pasta together is
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We have found another way of using our bottle tops – IN THE BATH! It is a simple unstructured and fun sensory play idea
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We have found a new and fun way to use our paper mache tree – to help learn our sight words! It is such
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Paper mache trees are a great activity for demonstrating the environmental changes in trees throughout the seasons. Our paper mache tree is used throughout the year
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Can you spot my youngest; Miss 18 Months hiding in the photo with
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Heart Shaped Paper Chains are so much fun and super easy to make. They are a great activity to do with the kids this
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Bubble wrap painting with heart shapes for Valentine’s Day. Kids never get bored with bubble wrap, there is so much fun to be had
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Today we made a Tissue Paper Window Collage and experimented with shades of colour with tissue paper, all with the theme of Valentine’s Day
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Strawberry Scented Valentine’s Play Dough smells sweet just like strawberries and fits perfectly with the Valentine’s theme. With heart shaped sprinkles and cookie cutters,
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Heart Flowers is a homemade craft using straws and heart shaped scrapbooking paper. Making heart flowers in a vase is an activity that you could
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Using the rice from our Rainbow Rice Bags sensory play activity we went onto making our very own rainbows. We used the coloured rice
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Bright, colourful, no mess, and fun – sensory play with rainbow coloured rice in zip lock bags. We have a few activities planned for the
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An fun activity that can last for days and all members in the family can contribute to – a giant drawing! A giant drawing
Making these little characters is so much fun as they can be brought to life in imaginative play games. They are so simple to
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We have had these homemade Den Den Drums now for about 3 years and the kids still love to play with them. At the
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Whether it is a playroom, play corner, shared play area such as the lounge room, inside or outside, our kids need a place to
Homemade Banana and Chocolate Chip Muffins are my kid’s favourite lunch box treat and the recipes so simple to make! I absolutely love a recipe where
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As some of you may know I have been exploring blackberries with my kids this week and making blackberry play dough. All of these
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Kids like to pretend! They like to pretend to be doctors, vets, check out operators but they most like to pretend to be a
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After exploring fresh blackberries with our five senses, we then went on to create our own blackberries using Blackberry Play Dough. This play dough
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A very exciting and new category coming soon to learning4kids! A look inside our play room and ideas for creating a play space for your
The Printable Letter Blends Puzzle is a hands on activity to reinforce or revise the learning of some letter blends. It is a fun
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My kids have always been interested in playing
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Lost in a world of bubbles! The joy that bubbles bring to children is amazing and they will play with them for as long
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Making learning your alphabet fun by searching for alphabet letters in a sensory tub with strawberry scented and pink coloured rice. This sensory play
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Sand is a toy! The less a toy does the more a child will learn! Sand is such a great sensory toy for kids
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In the early years, we often hear discussions about the importance of fine motor and gross motor development in kids. Here is a great
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Christmas is an exciting time; it is also a time when we pull out all our Christmas decorations. There are lots of great sensory
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Christmas paper chains are a great way for decorating the Christmas tree, the house or classroom at Christmas time. They are so simple and
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Gingerbread Man Cookies are a favourite in our house! We added green and red smarties to make them more christmasy. They are so much
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These Cellophane Christmas Trees look fabulous on windows with the sun shining through. They are simple to make and are a great way of
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Cellophance Snowflake Window Decorations are so easy to make and are a great way to decorate the windows at christmas. They look fabulous on
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A Kit Kat Santa is a super cute and easy gift idea for the kids to make for their teachers, friends or family. I have
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Blackberry Play Dough is a beautiful sweet scented and coloured play dough made to imitate blackberries. It is made using a mixture of
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Kids love play dough and it entertains them for hours! This Christmas activity involves making white glitter play dough, to mimic that of snow
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Strawberry Scented Play Dough is a basic play dough recipe with added strawberry essence and chocolate sprinkles to imitate that of real strawberries. 1
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Party Play Dough is a fun, bright and colourful play dough with 100s & 1000s sprinkles kneaded through it. I have named it Party Play
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Valentine’s Day is often associated with hearts and the colour red symbolising love. To make things fun and keep it simple the Valentine‘s day
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Imaginative play at Christmas time: Miss 5 and 4 had so much fun decorating our paper mache tree made out of toilet rolls. To make the play
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Every Christmas I try to add to our collection of Christmas books. Reading and sharing a Christmas story is such a fun way to
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The Pipe Cleaner Christmas Tree is a cute and simple Christmas craft and decoration to make with the kids. My kids have put them in
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Christmas Dance Streamers will bring hours of fun for the kids to play with as they bop and groove to their favourite Christmas songs
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Creating your own theme play dough for Christmas is so simple and will entertain the kids for hours over the Christmas break. This is just one
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Have you ever thought about re-using newspaper to make Christmas crackers? Christmas crackers are a wonderful way to decorate the table at Christmas
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Christmas cookies are always a treat at Christmas time and they are super easy for kids to make. This is something we do every
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These super cute Pompom Christmas Trees are so simple and so much fun to make. They are the perfect Christmas craft activity that requires
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Making your own Christmas gift wrap personalises your gift and it looks fabulous too! We have done this a few times over the years and every
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Giggling and squealing with delight my 3 kids and a bath tub full of water balloons. So much fun!! It is a great sensory
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Making Fluffy Snow using soap flakes is a fun and messy sensory play activity. It is a great way to incorporate a bit of
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Octopus Counting is a fun and creative way to introduce numbers, learn to count, or for the older kids skip counting. I have done this
It has been a while since I shared a favourite toy or book here on learning4kids. With the upcoming eBook which will be released on
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Paint Me is a cute and quirky activity that kids will enjoy making! I plan to use ours as keep sake to giggle at
I am a big fan of felt! I love that it is a sensory toy, brightly coloured, hands on playing, creative and great for
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An irresistibly yummy numeracy activity for kids! So much learning happens when we cook with our kids. The social interactions, processing information,
My kids get very excited when we play this game. The challenge and anticipation of searching for something brings so much fun to learning
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Let’s make cupcakes!! ….well these ones you cannot eat! Play dough cupcakes is a fun sensory and imaginative play activity for kids. There is
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Lately I have been trying to find fun opportunities to help develop and encourage Miss 14 month’s speaking, listening and language skills. One of
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Ooey, gooey, slushy and messy! Playing with jelly! I have had this sensory play activity planned for some time and I am so thrilled
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What are sight words? Sight words are a term used to describe a group of common or high frequency words that a reader should recognise
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Little archaeologists sifting through the sand with a paint brush to find alphabet letters. Taking on the role of an archaeologist looking for artifacts and
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Active Dice is a fun game to get little bodies moving! It is much like a blend of the games Simon Says and Twister.
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…..round and fat with a cherry on the top! This is one of my favourite children’s songs, known as 10 Current Buns; I have
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Today, I am so excited to share one of our Learning 4 kids reader’s activity! Thank you Leah for taking the time to share
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Name Collage is a name activity is a colourful, fun and simple way to introduce you child to recognising their name and the letters
Paper plate rainbows are a favourite craft activity of my kids. It is so simple and fun to make. We used a small paper
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This cookie dough recipe is super easy
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We had so much fun playing with our Alphabet Play Dough! It is a fun activity to help kids learn their alphabet letters and build up
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A homemade toy that encourages imaginative play! This post you will find information on how to make a sock puppet? Creating a character or
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Developing a love for reading in the early years is a lifelong lasting gift on so many levels. Not only in an imaginative sense
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Adding a little bit of this and a little bit of that to create a rainbow collage! We had so much fun searching around
Previously I wrote about a Paper Mache Autumn Tree and my kids have been very keen to make a spring version with blossoms. Spring
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Trying to make learning your sight words more
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Click to download and print: Printable Sight Word
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These sight word sorting mats have been made to used as an activity
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With spring finally here in Australia, I am aware that autumn has just begun in other parts of the world. I thought I would
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…..dries so very quickly when the weathers fine…. Click here to download and print: Printable Lyrics -Wet Washing Hanging on the Line
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Jack in the Box is a favourite game of my kids! All you need is a box! It involves singing the well-known nursery rhyme
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Getting out the paints and exploring the colours of the rainbow. This is a large poster size painting that we stuck up on our
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Teddy Bear Teddy Bear is a favourite children’s nusery rhyme! Click to downlaod and print: Printable Lyrics -Teddy Bear Teddy Bear Activities
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Everybody clap! Everybody sing! This is such a fun song for kids. Click here to download and print lyrics: Printable Lyrics -Rock-a-Bye Your
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Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man……. Click here to download and print: Pat-a-Cake Lyrics Activities to use with this song: Play dough Cupcakes
…….tickle him under there! Click here to download and print lyrics: Printable Lyrics -Round and Round the Garden Activities to use with
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Imaginative play bakers shop was inspired by our mini cupcakes which we made previously. They make a brilliant prop to encourage the imaginary world
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All the colours of the rainbow in a box of breakfast cereal. Kids will have so much fun creating a rainbow using Froot Loops
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Kids will have so much fun making these Mini cupcakes. They are super simple to make, colourful and a creative craft activity for kids! There
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Number sort is a fun, hands on activity to play and learn with numbers. It sets a challenge of searching for Vanilla Play Dough Recipe specific numbers amongst a jumble
A gorgeous little craft activity to create a rainbow! You will need pipe cleaners, cotton wool balls, a clean meat tray and some play
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“I love these little plastic lids!” Bottle Tops have brought so many wonderful and creative ideas to my kids play times. I am amazed that
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“Is is nap time yet?” Every parent can relate to this and look
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Learning about shapes using bubble wrap painting. Bubble wrap is so much fun to explore for kids! Feeling the various textures of the puffy
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Kids love birthdays, blowing out candles and cake! Why not incorporate all these wonderful things with oral language development, strengthening fine motor skills, developing numeracy
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Washing a Toy Baby – Imaginative play is essentially when children are role playing and are acting out various experiences they may have had
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We are always looking for new and fun Homemade Father’s Day Gift Ideas. For previous Father’s Days we have made a Father’s day tie,
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Making something for Dad is very special to kids as this is one way they know how to show and share their feelings. Giving a homemade
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Alphabet Play Dough Mats are a fun activity for kids to help learn their alphabet letters and build up their fine motor skills at
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Here is the story Of the Terrible Plop With a bear and a rabbit And a hop hop hop. But what is the PLOP?
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These alphabet letters are fabulous for fun literacy games for kids. Click to down load and print: Alphabet Letters – Printable Activities for Kids
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Straw Flowers are the perfect craft children can make to give as a little gift. It is the perfect homemade gift idea for
So much fun exploring the colours of the rainbow with pipe cleaners, while singing the song: All the Colours of the Rainbow.
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Lyrics to 10 Little Candles Click the link to download and print – Lyrics for 10 Little Candles
Rolling around on the grass in hysterical laughter……what fun! My two eldest girls (3 and 5) enjoyed a sunny winters day playing with their
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Playing with DIY Alphabet Sponge Letters in the bath is a great tactile and hands-on activity for kids to play with while taking a
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Lyrics to I’m a Little Tea Pot Click here to download and print: Nursery Rhyme – I’m a Little Tea Pot
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How to make Play Dough? A simple play dough recipe to make great play dough every time! This is my most favourite play dough recipe
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Lyrics to All the Colours of the Rainbow Click the Link to download and print: Lyrics – All the Colours of the
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Lyrics to I Can Sing a Rainbow Click the link to download and print: Lyrics – I Can Sing a Rainbow
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A rainbow birthday cake I made my daughter when she turned 3.
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It’s cold, wet and I’m a little over winter! Bring on the sunshine! I love getting out doors and I wasn’t going to let
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My name is Janice and I am an Early Childhood Teacher in Australia.
I have a strong passion and love for teaching and creating meaningful learning experiences for my students. What I love most is watching children discover in those amazing light bulb moments. I hope Learning4kids brings you some useful ideas.
