Growing Nimble Families

Raising Playful Tots show 33: Travel with kids = My Busy Kit

in Education, family atmosphere, Family Theme, Play activities, Podcast, Simple Family Lifestyle, summer on 07/14/10

Traveling with your child isn’t always the most playful of experiences. Lorraine Akeman Mom and blogger Co-founder of My Busy Kit shares the fun you can have with a special busy kit made for your child to enjoy while traveling in this 24 minute show. You can download the MP3 file for this podcast directly by clicking here, you can… View Post

Winners of the Outdoor products

in Play activities on 07/07/10

Congratulations to the 4 winners of the Outdoor products for the summer contest! 1. Katrina 2. Angela 3. Janis 4. Dani

Outdoor Toddler Child Craft Ideas

in Play activities, Seasonal play on 07/07/10

This is a guest post by Jaime-Ann Laidlaw of Crafts for Kidlets. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. So I was thinking, when was the last time I let my kids go outside and just have fun playing with things that were not store bought? I mean when I was young the… View Post

Raising Playful Tots show 32: How we can be playful with music

in Better Conversations, Conversations around play, family atmosphere, Family Rhythm, Podcast, Self Care, Simple Family Lifestyle on 07/07/10

Dr Petra Kern owner of Music Therapy consulting share insights into playful activities to do with Under 5 children using music. Music you would find in any home with any person. She also talks about the universality of music for families, disabilities and Autism in this 27 minute podcast. You can download the MP3 file for this podcast directly by… View Post

Summer vitamins and Watermelon seed spitting

in Play activities on 07/01/10

Do you have your PURTS the new summer vitamin? Are your toddlers getting their vitamins? With the start of summer more of us will be aware of covering up our toddlers to avoid skin problems. We’re careful that they eat their greens and munch an apple to get their Vitamin C. It’s what caring parents do. Vitamins are vital to… View Post

Raising Playful Tots show 31: Preschool play in newsletters

in Better Conversations, family atmosphere, Podcast, Simple Family Lifestyle on 06/30/10

What’s in your preschoolers backpack? Is it full of crafts and activities? Lurking near the bottom is probably a newsletter or something for us to read. This week I take a look at what we find in our preschool newsletter. Is it useful for parents other than just dates or does it help connect and play with our children in… View Post

Preschool out of sequence alphabet letter game

in Play activities on 06/28/10

Do they know the [tag]alphabet[/tag]? Rote learning is great but we need make sure that they can identify letters individually. I’m talking to myself here because I noticed that pointing to a letter on the alphabet at random meant that the MO sang the alphabet song quietly to himself until he got to the letter. I was happy he had… View Post

Outdoor products for the summer

in Play activities, Seasonal play on 06/26/10

Welcome KMGH-TV Channel 7 Denver viewers! Thanks for watching this morning and stopping by for more information about the products I featured on TV. While you’re here, you can learn more about me and my work on my profile page. Featured products Sport Brella At the park, beach, pool or campsite, the SKLZ Sport-Brella gives you instant protection from the… View Post

Playing with paper

in Education, Play activities on 06/25/10

This is a repost from June 2007 If you don’t record them you’ll forget them. Try this simple easy and cheap hour of fun! So here is my son’s current favourite play activity. Running away from the crocodiles whoops that should read crocodimes ( pronounced croco- dime-es) He had been drawing forever. We have a huge pile of papers. He… View Post

News at Play-Activities

in Uncategorized on 06/24/10

As a regular reader you’re probably wondering where we are and if we are still playing. We are here but not for long. We’re a military family and currently on the move. We’re currently in the US and will be moving next month. Mr Playactivities will be deploying for a year. While the boys and I will be returning to… View Post

Raising Playful Tots show 30: Steiner Waldorf play with Janni Nicol

in Family Rhythm, Family Theme, Play activities, Podcast, Self Care, Simple and Slow Parenting, Simple Family Lifestyle on 06/23/10

Janni Nicol Consultant specialising in Steiner Waldorf, Core tutor at the University of Plymouth , and author of Creative play for your toddler Steiner Waldorf Expertise and toy projects 2-4talks about Steiner- Waldorf play a play concept that is becoming more popular. She gives background on the movement, activity ideas and information about how important this style of play concept… View Post

Pizza fun with kids

in Play activities on 06/23/10

We stumbled across this recipe from Our best bites. We often have a pizza night along with our family night where we often make pizza. We decided to use the family night to make and eat the pizza. This was a great together activity. The boys cut, weighed, placed and worked on these pizzas. We made two types of pizza… View Post