Welcome to Day Twenty of 31 days of Sensory Play. Time for some action, touch, movement and listening from one of our favourite books- Squash and a Squeeze by Julia Donaldson. You can see from our copy that it is well used. A quick summary of the story is a little old lady lives in a small room ( house) and… View Post
Welcome to Day Nineteen of 31 days of Sensory Play. I’m delighted to have Cerys from RainyDay Mum share a sensory play idea. Catch our interview together on Toddler play. We first played with gloop when my youngest was around 9 months old and I regularly set up a bin with different elements in, colours and scents. The recipe for… View Post
MaryAnne of Mamasmiles.com and Carolyn of Pleasantestthing.com talk about routines in play through the many changes of parenting. Working outside the home, multiple children, new baby and staying at home- different seasons with different routines. What’s your routine like?
Welcome to Day Eighteen of 31 days of Sensory Play. Developing fine motor skills in preparation for writing doesn’t mean you have to be writing. Today we have a fun prewriting activity. All the little movements it takes to move a piece of string helps our children learn to use their fingers, thumb and hand. We’ve played with glue… View Post
Welcome to Day Seventeen of 31 days of Sensory Play. All of these sensory activities in this 31 day series are designed for us to work together intentionally with our children. Often we multi task while our children play nearby which is a good thing. They get to be creative and learn without us. Although time can slip by during… View Post
Welcome to Day Sixteen of 31 days of Sensory Play. Why is it mum that I give you all my socks and when you give them back they are not all there? This conversation happened again this week with the MO who was busy trying to match up school socks and finding many missing. We have a missing sock pile… View Post
Welcome to Day Fifteen of 31 days of Sensory Play. Do you have a favourite pair of boots or shoes? Your go to shoe or boot. You probably like me or your neighbour have quite a few choices of footwear but you gravitate to these special ones because they are familiar. You love ’em. Kids get the same way with… View Post
Welcome to Day Fourteen of 31 days of Sensory Play. Sweet potato was always on the menu growing up. We had them mashed into our white potatoes, cooked with yam, banana and dumplins as a side dish or my favourite in soup. Sweet potato is a savoury item to me. Meeting my husband completely changed my view of sweet… View Post
Welcome to the Sunday Parenting Party! I’m loving all the Fall colors and play activities this week. So many lovely parenting articles about this week but I wanted to highlight two posts on the theme of being different. We’re all striving to find what works best for us and our families. That usually means we will go through lots of… View Post
Welcome to Day Thirteen of 31 days of Sensory Play. I’ve talked before about often children need to run around to sit still. Getting to play activities is so much easier when they are ready to do them. Instead of just charging around the house which is often their preferred default option I like to add a little bit… View Post
