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Why scribbling is fun!

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Kids like to be independent. Whatever you can do they can do. It’s natural to be so enthusiastic. Both older boys enjoy [tag]colouring[/tag] now. They do a lot of colouring at church during service ; after busy activities when they need some calm and just because… they like it. Colouring within the lines is hard to keep neat.  I remember my… View Post

Make your own family

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Make your own family is an easy craft activity that allows for imagination. balloons, flour,water, funnel, measuring spoon. Easy clean up table. Sharpie marker Blow up the balloon then deflate…probably did this too many times. The boys loved to chase them around the room. Insert the funnel. Spoon in the flour. Fill up the balloon Add a little water. Tie… View Post

Playing outdoors- Tell me Thursday

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Tell me Thursday is a chance to explain your Wordless Wednesday post. Join in the fun. With Grandad in town they had to show him how they can scoot downhill towards the park. It was easy to get them outdoors today. The weather was great and they had a cheerleader. Yes both decided to try from this picture to start…. View Post

Going on a car trip?

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3 things that we couldn’t do without on our car trips. We think you’ll like them too. Treasure Basket Action figure Memory Game Treasure basket play for my youngest( 9.5months). We brought along a small collection of objects that swapped as time went by.  Happily his favourite is the teaspoon which we had brought anyway for his lunch.  He looked… View Post

Time for play outdoors

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Raising our children to be caring citizens without having to get a pet. Possible? Recently I’ve been talking about social responsiblity by doing activities that promote sharing, doing activities we find hard or challenging, talking through our failures, perseverance, using imagination. Are you crafty? What are you thinking? Rotating books- play activity really? Last year we started a very small… View Post

Tell me Thursday- Who knew?

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Tell me Thursday is a chance to explain your Wordless Wednesday post. Join in the fun. The local Children’s museum held a New Year celebration. Here the kids waited patiently on the sides then were let loose on bubble wrap. Everyone was jumping and trying to pop that stuff……..very tired but warmer children left that place that day. Who knew… View Post

Talkback- Are you crafty?

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I’m not very crafty at all.  But we craft. Why? It’s not about what you produce at the end but going through the process itself. OK….it helps if it resembles something like what you intended but diversions and new directions because your child has had a different idea are all fine. Imagination and the ability to act on it without being… View Post

What are you thinking?

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 What’s good to know? The way that mothers talk to their children when they are young has a lasting effect on children’s social skills, according to a research study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The researchers found that children whose mothers often talked to them about people’s feelings, beliefs, wants, and intentions, developed better social understanding than… View Post

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