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Sparkles

November 24, 2011 Activities

Little girl loves gluing at the moment. She doesn’t care if it’s a stick or brush, the sheer pleasure of spreading glue around is enough. It’s even more important than actually sticking anything to the glue, which is driving the control freak in me mad. In a bid to make it a bit different I’ve [...]

Babies and Bodies (aka 18 Baby Games)

September 15, 2011 Activities

I know I talk about ‘the five senses’ a lot but it’s quite a bad habit because it’s actually wrong – we have far more than five. And I don’t mean some type of mystical sixth sense or seeing dead people. Two other senses that are important are the sense of balance and proprioception. The [...]

Smelling Pots

August 18, 2011 Activities

We smell things quite a bit, lots of flowers, crushed leaves and cooking spices. Two of our most common activities are walking and cooking, so almost every day we’ll stop and smell something. Yet smell generally is almost invisible. We notice it when something particularly enticing or horrible wafts past. We notice when a smell [...]

Bombs Away! or Making Moon Craters

July 28, 2011 Activities

Or dropping marbles. Whichever sounds more exciting to your kids. I’m rearranging things and putting the activities on Thursdays rather than Fridays, there will be something completely new tomorrow. This week was very simple – we half filled a plastic container with flour then dropped marbles and balls into it. It was lots of fun, [...]

Salt Dough

July 19, 2009 Activities

This is a brilliant thing to play with, especially when you want an indoor activity. It is so easy, even little ones from about 18 months can help make it, plus it’s kneaded rather than stirred. The salt taste is so strong even my kids won’t eat it, and my eldest has been known to [...]