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10 Must Follow Outdoor Play Ideas Pinterest Boards
Outdoor play and Pinterest – two of my favourite things! Today I am sharing 10 of my favourite Pinterest boards full of outdoor play ideas. The benefits of outdoor play are endless from better sleep to exercise, from exploring the world around us to developing gross motor skills to name only a few! Check out and follow these boards from very creative and inspiring bloggers for lots and lots of amazing outdoor fun! For ways to to get your kids outdoors and enjoying nature 365 days a year then take a look at Steph’s from Modern Parents Messy Kids fantastic Outdoor Play board! Happy Holligans’ Outdoor Play board has everything from…
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Sunflower Handprint Art 2 – Autumn/Fall Art Activities for Kids
Sunflowers are such a cheerful flower and what better way to celebrate the ending of summer and coming of autumn with a handprint art sunflower, a perfect craft for preschoolers We love sunflowers and last week we had a lot of fun making a giant sunflower with our handprints. Today we decided to use our favourite flowers as inspiration again for a craft activity. What we used: Pre-cut card handprints Paint PVA non toxic glue Glitter Paper Plate A2 White card Stapler and staples What we did: We painted each of the pre-cut handprints with autumnal colours, sprinkled them with a little red and gold glitter and left to dry…
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Foam Dough – Squishy Squashy Sensory Fun!
Shaving foam is a fantastic material to use in a variety of ways in sensory play. My little girl Oodles loves to sit in her mini paddling pool in her swim suit play with the foam and toys. We have created gorgeous paint foam prints and of course there is foam dough. What we used: 1 cup of cornflour/cornstarch 2 cups of shaving foam paint What we did: Doodles and Oodles measured out the cornflour and added it to their bowls D poured the shaving foam into each bowl – O couldn’t quite manage to press the nozzle They chose their colour of choice and squeezed it into…
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Alphabet Book – Hunting for Letters, Cutting Skills, Learning Our ABCs
Hi all, this is a short and sweet post this morning about an activity we have been working on. Doodles and I have been having lots of fun working on letters and phonics recently (just the basics). Oodles has been joining in too, but the activities were aimed at D (almost 5 y.o). Today, after doing an “a” sound hunt around the house, listing as many “a” words that he could identify, we decided to do a letter hunt in our magazines and comics. This was great cutting practice as well as helping D to identify as many letters as he could. His first job was just to cut out…
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Ooooey Gooooey Slime! – Simple Indoor Rainy Day Messy Play Fun
On Friday it rained!!!!! Shock, horror :O ! Having been away in sunnier climes for a few weeks and a number of weeks of hot, sunny weather here since our return we had almost forgotten what rain was like! Over breakfast Doodles and Oodles discussed with me what they would like to do for the day! First on the agenda – PJs day, they had no plans to get dressed! Second on the agenda – make purple slime (and pink playdough). What we used: a little warm water 1 cup PVA water soluable non toxic glue 2 cups cornflour/cornstarch purple food colouring What we did: We mixed a few drops…
