From the category archives:

Toddlers

Quiz – The Toy Edition

April 10, 2012 Babies

Getting back to the roots of this blog, looking at the things little ones love. What is the best sort of mobile for newborns? How do spinning tops work? Ancient toys have been found in India and Rome, what types of toys are they? Have you ever successfully got one of those cars on race [...]

Easter Answers

April 6, 2012 Earth and Beyond

Happy Easter, or whatever flavour of holiday you are enjoying today. At least, in Australia everyone is enjoying a holiday, plus lots of chocolate. Here are this week’s answers, questions here. 1. Full Moons are the moon’s daytime facing towards us. The moon rotates and has a day just like ours, but it is [...]

Hoop Surveys

April 5, 2012 Activities

The last time we did this type of thing we were outside with cameras, the whole yard was our canvas and we were skimming over the top, picking the highlights. This week we did the opposite – pulled it back to a piece of ivory two inches on a side, on which we worked with [...]

Wordless Wednesday – Easter

April 4, 2012 Activities

I thought I’d look at Easters past. Last year we made home made paper Easter baskets with seeds embedded then gave them to big girl’s school friends. We dyed eggs with petals and cabbage. They were completely different to using food colouring. The Easter Chicken was a collage of petals. And the year before that we made paper [...]

Little Girl’s Easter Egg Activity

March 29, 2012 Activities

Sometimes it’s tough being the youngest. You rarely get to lead, you’re never the expert, and everyone’s done it before. And if you have the same teacher as your older siblings, you don’t even get to come home and say ‘Guess what we did!’ because they probably did it two years ago. So when the [...]

It’s not the Snowy River Scheme

March 22, 2012 Activities

When we were in Perth we spent time at the newest nature playground in Kings Park, seeing ‘children in their natural habitat.’ One of the things I loved were the groups of kids, who had never met and didn’t introduce themselves, working together to dam the creek, then undam it, then dam it at another [...]

Wordless Wednesday – Light

March 21, 2012 Energy and Change

A torch and a glass of water. The rays actually come from the LEDs of the torch. If you hold it just right, you get little rainbows. Or shine it straight down for glowing water. What pictures can you make?

Wordless Wednesday – All Grown Up (ducks)

March 14, 2012 Babies

I haven’t updated since my ducklings hatched, but they are all grown up now. We can’t even tell who had the caesarean. They are Indian Runner ducks but I don’t know how pure they are, they are certainly pretty as they waddle around the yard. For anyone interested in genetics they seem to have silver [...]

Living Things Scavenger Hunt

March 8, 2012 Activities

The girls adore taking pictures, but tend to just snap away and we get hundreds of photos of leaves, or the sky, or their fingers and then they are forgotten. At the same time we keep finding fascinating things outside but not having a way to record them. So we remembered to take the camera [...]