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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 is a fun activity that provides an opportunity to play with rhyming words, explore scientific concepts and learn about primary
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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 STANDARD Print – Fun Alphabet and 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 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.
Just print and laminate these Play Dough Mats for a re-usable resource children can learn and play with.
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Cloud Spotting on the Easel is a fun and engaging activity that involves searching for clouds with the letter C and placing a magnetic
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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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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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Number Dice Game is a printable game that is played much like Bingo. It is a fun activity for encouraging early maths skills using
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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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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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Simple and Fun Sewing Activities for Kids I am not sure who had more fun completing our recent sewing project, me or my girls!
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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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Play Dough Flower Pots and making a potted garden with play dough is a fun way for children to play creatively and imaginatively. Children
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Watch the magic happen with this Colour Changing Milk Experiment by mixing milk, food colouring and dish soap. The kids will want to do
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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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Recently we shared here on Learning 4 Kids a Bottle Top Soup Game and Miss 4 absolutely loved it. We extended the sensory play
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Dried herbs are a great way for adding texture and scent to homemade play dough. We have taken our basic play dough recipe and
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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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Looking for Alphabet letters hiding amongst the scattered buttons is a great way for kids to play and learn with alphabet letters. Children will
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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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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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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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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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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 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
Spring Garden Sticky Easel Read More »
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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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Shape Toss is a fun way to introduce and play with shapes. It also gets children up and active while learning about shapes and
Shape Toss – A Game for Learning Shapes Read More »
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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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
I love the theme 5 Green and Speckled Frogs for early learning experiences and making green and speckled play dough is the perfect fit for
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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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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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Over the years I have stored our art and craft supplies in many different ways. We have progressed from having everything squashed into a
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Play Dough is such a fun learning tool to play with and explore new concepts. With Miss 2 learning about shapes at the moment,
Learning About Shapes with Play Dough Read More »
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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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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Apple Tree Play Dough Maths is a fun activity for encouraging early and basic maths skills using Apple Scented Play Dough and a set
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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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‘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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We’ve been making Salt Dough Christmas Decorations (ornaments) for our Christmas tree. They are so much fun and super easy to make! The most
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Super easy salt dough recipe!! Salt Dough is a wonderful product that is used to create crafts, sculptures and ornaments. It is a simple
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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 A Play Dough Toolbox is a box filled with play dough props and materials that are stored together
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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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Jelly Play Dough Recipe is an easy play dough to make and by adding some jelly crystals to a basic play dough recipe creates
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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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Here is a great spring theme activity for the kids, creating a Spring Play Dough Garden. The play dough has been scented with a
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Here is a fun and simple craft activity for the kids to try this Christmas. Create a fun Dancing Santa using paper plates, spilt
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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
Back Yard Water Park Read More »
Subitising refers to immediately knowing how many items lie within a visual scene for a small number of items. It is to have a
Counting & Subitising Read More »
An activity that siblings of various ages can all do together at the same time! Recently after going through some our craft supplies I
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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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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Making these cute craft Cardboard Roll Spiders are super easy to make and a great activity for this Halloween. They are also a great
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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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Peg-A-Number Fact is a fun maths game that allows kids to practice basic numbers sums and encourage the use of strategies to solve maths problems. It
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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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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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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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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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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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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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These Tin Can Music Shakers are a simple homemade musical instrument to make and you will find most of the materials around the home.
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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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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
Keep the kids entertained with Pompom Hockey. It is a super simple activity you can set up at home for the kids, that is
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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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 is a fun and inviting pre-writing activity. Why would you need crayons, textas, pencils and paper to draw when you can
This week my little Miss 22months and I have embarked on a series of activities to help her learn her colours. All activities are
Learning Colours – RED Read More »
We love our bright colourful bottle tops here on learning4kids. There are tons of fun learning activities you can do with them, some of
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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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Making your own Felt Ice Creams while learning your colours!! This is such a fun hands on activity for kids to promote the learning
Coloured Felt Ice Creams Read More »
Welcome to our Ice Cream Shop!! The fun and joy of exploring the imaginary world of an ice cream shop. Today I am sharing some
Imaginative Play Ice Cream Shop Read More »
Those of you who are familiar with learning4kids would know that at our house we like bottle tops and love to bring them into
Sorting Colours with Bottle Tops Read More »
With Miss 5 at school full time now and Miss 4 going to kindy 2 – 3 times a week, it has opened up
Orange Scented Play Dough is a refreshing scent adding to the sensory experience of playing with play dough. It also creates an association with
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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
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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These Homemade Number Stamps will make learning your numbers FUN for kids as they can make endless paintings of numbers prints and sing-a-long as
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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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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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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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Paint Pops are a fun and exciting painting activity for kids. It is a great variation to using paint brushes. Kids will have a
Felt is a wonderful sensory hands-on learning toy as it is a fun and creative way for exploring early concepts. We have been playing with
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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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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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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
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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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