Drawing and Sorting 2D Shapes Activity
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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Christmas Hide and Seek Activity Mats
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 Numbers 1-20 Activity
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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Truck Theme Counting Numbers 1-20 Mats
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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Christmas Spin and Cover Game Mats
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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Counting and Subitising Activity Game Mats
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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Early Years Fine Motor Colour Activities
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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Colour Matching Activities Pack
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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How to Set Up a Role Play Flower Shop?
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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Printable Measurement Capacity Activity Mats
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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Balancing Felt Balls – Fine Motor Fun
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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Sensory Exploration with Sand
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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Printable Dot-to-Dot Shapes Charts
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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Bugs and Bottle Tops
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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DIY Chalkboard Branch Circles
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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Basic Shapes Work Station or Centre Activity
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 Box Creativity
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
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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Painting Fireworks
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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Fireworks Celebration Play Dough Activity
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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Finger Painting Festive Lights
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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Pool Noodle Activities Fine Motor Fun
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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Printable Dot to Dot Alphabet Letter Charts
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 – Keeping Kids Occupied in the Car
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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Ocean Theme Transient Art Activity
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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Green Sandy Play Dough Shape Monsters
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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The Ultimate Christmas Printable Activity Pack
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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Painting Clouds on the Easel
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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Minion Play Dough Fun
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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Z is for Zip It Zipper Board
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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List of Simple and Fun Name Activities
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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Fine Motor Fun Feeding the Birds
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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Colour Match Cars Painting
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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Hands On Learning Shapes Activities
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
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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F is for Feather Fish Painting
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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Homemade Rubbery Goop Recipe
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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Growing Watercress Shapes
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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Zig Zag Zebra Play Dough
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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Rice and Ice Sensory Activity
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
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
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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Cloud Theme Sensory Bin
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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How to make Squishy Sensory Bags?
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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Printable Number Play Dough Mats
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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Printable Alphabet Play Dough Mats
Printable Alphabet Play Dough Mats are playful, bright, and colourful with happy friendly alphabet characters. They are so inviting, children will love to get
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Measuring Height Activity for Kids
This post is sponsored by Hippo Blue Measuring Height Activity for Kids – In the early years it is important to expose children to
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Early Years Throwing Skills Game
This Early Years Throwing Skills Game is our homemade version much like the game Ring Toss or Quoits but using homemade paper rings as the rope and
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Digging for Dinosaur Fossils Sensory Bin
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?
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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Cloud in a Jar Experiment
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?
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
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
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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Bubble Wrapped Blocks Painting Activity
Bubble Wrapped Blocks Painting Activity is a great painting activity that is suitable for differing ages. All children can create and play with the
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Lunch Box Ideas – Honey Muesli Biscuits Recipe
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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Paper Plate Autumn Craft
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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Bottle Top Soup Game
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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Lunch Box Ideas – Choc Chip Muffin Bites
Something that I absolutely love doing, is cooking with the kids…..and they love it too! There is something special about sharing the cooking experience together
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Activity Ideas Using Pegs
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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Digging for Worms Sensory Play
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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Play Ideas, Activities and Crafts – Play by Age
Today’s post is to provide you with some play ideas, activities and crafts that have been group into categories by age. The different categories below
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Make your own Underwater Zoo Aquarium
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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Summer Theme Play Dough
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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Introducing Play Dough to Babies & Toddlers
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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Edible Play Dough Recipe for Babies
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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Spring Garden Sticky Easel
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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Many Ways to Play with Lego Duplo
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
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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Letter I Activity – Melting Insects in Ice
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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Play Dough Dinosaur Printing
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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Catch and Scoop Fine Motor Activity
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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Messy Fun with Finger Painting
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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Shaving Cream Activity Tray
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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Make a Play Dough Teddy Bear
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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Name Activity – Dot Painting
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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Science Learning Tray
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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Sticky Easel – Match Sticks & Pompoms
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 Painting Ideas
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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Colour Activity – Coloured Ice Boats
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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Neapolitan Ice Cream Play Dough Fun
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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Shape Toss – A Game for Learning Shapes
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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Sandy Beach Theme Play Dough
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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Learning Trays – Sorting Coloured Pompoms
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 Green & Speckled Frogs Activity Ideas
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
Flower Printing: Today I was about to put some old flowers from a vase into the bin as they were no longer looking their
Learning Colours – Orange
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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Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids
Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I thought I would collate all the activities we have done so
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Learning About Shapes with Play Dough
Play Dough is such a fun learning tool to play with and explore new concepts. With Miss 2 learning about shapes at the moment,
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Science Fun – Dancing Sultanas
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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Imaginative Play Felt Pizza
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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Hidden Shapes in the Salt Tray
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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Planting a Garden
Imaginative play would have to be one of my most favourite kinds of play. I love how children can freely explore an imaginary world
Information about Easel Play Prompts
Information about Easel Play Prompts Before going into detail about what our Easel Play Prompts Series is all about, I think it is
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Information about Our Play Dough Toolbox
Information about Our Play Dough Toolbox A Play Dough Toolbox is a box filled with play dough props and materials that are stored together
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Jelly Play Dough Critters
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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Learning Colours – PINK
So far on our colour series here on learning4kids, we have looked the colour RED, BLUE, YELLOW and GREEN. This week we have been
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DIY Bath Paint
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Counting & Subitising
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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Sponge Painting
An activity that siblings of various ages can all do together at the same time! Recently after going through some our craft supplies I
How to Make Puffy Paint?
How to make Puffy Paint? There is something magical about Puffy Paint and it is a must try for any child or toddler to
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Sensory Play for Toddlers & Kids – Ice World
Ice World is a sensory activity for toddlers and pre-school children that involves playing with ice, water and sea theme props. Older children will still
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We’re Going on a ‘Teddy’ Bear Hunt
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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Sorting Colours with Cardboard Rolls
Make learning your colours fun with this interactive game using pompoms and cardboard rolls! Miss 2 has been learning her colours for some time
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Learning Colours – GREEN
Come play with the colour GREEN! As part of our Learning Colours Series here on learning4kids, today I am sharing with you some of
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Rainbow Activities for Toddlers & Kids
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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Soapy Slime FUN!!
This activity was FUN, REALLY FUN!! Kids love to get messy, it comes with being a kid as they explore their natural curiosity about
Textured Painting with Nature’s Paint Brushes
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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Where is the Green Sheep?
We have a long list of favourite children and toddler books in our collection and one of them that we never get bored with
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Father’s Day Gift Idea: Photo Puzzles
A Homemade Father’s Day Gift Idea: Father’s Day here in Australia is on Sunday 2nd September and my girls and I have been making
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Play Dough & Buttons
It is always fun to watch and see what kids will come up with when you give them simple props to promote play in
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Learning Colours – YELLOW
Last week we were playing and learning with the colour YELLOW through a number of activities. As part of our Learning Colours Series here
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Great Places to Play at Home!
There are so many wonderful places in the home where children can play imaginatively and creatively. Kids will create imaginary worlds to explore and
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Rainy Day Activity – Indoor Camping
It’s raining, it’s pouring…..and we have been stuck inside a fair bit lately with the weather. To entertain the kids and give them something
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Learning Colours – BLUE!
Come play and learn with the colour BLUE, we have lots of activities! As part of our Learning Colours Series here on learning4kids, this
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Rainbow Salt Tray
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
Learning Colours – RED
This week my little Miss 22months and I have embarked on a series of activities to help her learn her colours. All activities are
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Colourful Cellophane Sticky Art
Cellophane Sticky Art is a great activity to introduce kids to colours. I believe it is never too early to start learning about concepts
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Playing With Gloop
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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Coloured Felt Ice Creams
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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Pipe Cleaner Maze
With Miss 5 at school full time now and Miss 4 going to kindy 2 – 3 times a week, it has opened up
Imaginative Play – Baby Care Corner
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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Imaginative Play Vet Hospital
Imaginative play would have to be one of my most favourite kinds of play. I love how children can freely explore an imaginary world
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Homemade Street Traffic Theme Bath Sponges
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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Play Dough & Cardboard Tubes
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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Paint Pops
Paint Pops are a fun and exciting painting activity for kids. It is a great variation to using paint brushes. Kids will have a
The Nursery Rhyme Box
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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What is Hiding in Our Jelly?
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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Scented Rice Sensory Play
Not long ago I published a post on our Strawberry Theme Birthday Party, we had a sensory tub full of rice for party friends
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Bottle Top & Bubbles Bath Play
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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Heart Bubble Wrap Painting
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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Rainbow Rice & Bottle Tops
It is always interesting to see what kids come up with when you give them simple props to promote play with an open-ended, unstructured
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Rice Rainbows in a Cup
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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Rainbow Rice Bags – Sensory Play
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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Giant Drawing
An fun activity that can last for days and all members in the family can contribute to – a giant drawing! A giant drawing
Little Toilet Roll People
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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Blackberry Finger Painting
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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Wet Washing Hanging on the Line
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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Bath Time Bubble Fun!
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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Sensory Play with Sand
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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What is Imaginative Play and How to Encourage it?
How to encourage and support imaginative play with our children? Imaginative play is essentially when children are role playing and are acting out various
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A Fun Game for Building Fine Motor
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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Counting Octopus
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
Paint Me!
Paint Me is a cute and quirky activity that kids will enjoy making! I plan to use ours as keep sake to giggle at
The Imaginary World with Felt
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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Play Dough Cupcakes
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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Teddy Bears Everywhere!
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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Sensory Play with Jelly
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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10 Mini Cupcakes in a Bakers Shop……
…..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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Name Collage
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 Rainbow
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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Alphabet Play Dough
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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How to Male Sock Puppets?
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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Rainbow Collage
Adding a little bit of this and a little bit of that to create a rainbow collage! We had so much fun searching around
Someones Hiding, Down in a Box, Until……..
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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Painting a Rainbow
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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Imaginative Play – Bakers Shop
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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Frooty Loopy Rainbow
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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Creative Play – Mini Cupcakes
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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Making a Pipe Cleaner Rainbow
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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Bubble Wrap Painting – Learning Shapes
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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Washing a Toy Baby
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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Father’s Day Gift Idea
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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Straw Flowers
Straw Flowers are the perfect craft children can make to give as a little gift. It is the perfect homemade gift idea for
Alphabet Sponge Letters – Bath Time Fun!
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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