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Baby Play - Spaghetti Sensory

Baby Play - Sesnroy Spaghetti

I have seen Spaghetti play all over the internet and pinterest – but apart from when T has dinner I haven’t played with it with her. So I took the challenge and cooked up the spaghetti, because I wanted it to be a visual as well as touch so I used some food colouring.

Baby Play - Sesnroy SpaghettiCooked Spaghetti has a unique feel to it – when J saw what T was playing with he announced it was slimy worms so I cooked up some Spaghetti and the split the quantity in half and dyed half with blue food colouring [...]

30 Day Hands on Play Challenge

Day 21 of 30 days to hands on play

It’s day 21 of 30 days to hands on play and it’s the weekend so Rainy Day Dad and J had some fun together whilst T and I took on today’s challenge

Today’s Challenge: Have a Party!

T turned 14 months this week so we had a little tea party to celebrate, we got our free gift from her magazine this week and sat together pouring each other tea. It is the first time we’ve played at tea parties but I can see it becoming a favourite of T’s as since we came in from the garden we’ve played it again and [...]

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Blogs that bring books alive

Blogs that Bring Books Alive

Blogs that Bring Books AliveI love sharing some of my favourite blogs with you at the weekend, and this week I’m sharing blogs that bring books alive. Reading is so important and the earlier you start reading the better, but it’s not always easy to get everyone interested in literacy – one of the ways is to bring books alive with activities, plays ideas, crafts etc….

First off is Sun Hats and Wellie Boots, wrote by another British Author this blog brings alive many of my favourite stories, I’m still [...]

30 Day Hands on Play Challenge

Day 20 – 30 days to hands on play

Day 20 of the 30 days to hands on play with The Imagination Tree and Hands on as we grow (almost 3/4′s of the way through). If you are joining in at what ever stage you are at I hope that you are having as much fun as we are with these challenges.

Today’s Challenge: Paint!

Now we love paint, but sometimes you need some not too messy paint as it can take a while to clean up J and T so I invested recently in some dot markers. I thought that these would be easy for T to paint but J [...]

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Exploring outdoors - shop imaginative play

Exploring Outdoors Post

Exploring Outdoors PostWe’re taking some of our play outside this week for our exploring outdoors post and playing shops. It’s been a really dreary month so the moment that the sun peaks through the clouds we’re out of the door and enjoying it.

Nana and Z are joining T for this great outdoor play (in fact Nana was the one that started them playing with it). For J’s birthday last year we decided to get him a playhouse for the garden. We got the cheapest that we could find that would last for a little while but without any fancy extra’s [...]

30 Day Hands on Play Challenge

Day 19 - 30 days to hands on play

It’s Day 19 of the 30 days to hands on play and we’re having loads of fun

Today’s Challenge: Music Making at The Imagination Tree

Now we’ve been out today at the zoo most of the day, so we had to get this hands on challenge done very early this morning and we got out our kitchen drum kit – wooden spoons, plastic pots, metal spoons, metal pots and we sung away to our favourite nursery rhymes and children’s songs. We had loads of fun very noisy and completely out of tune (one of the reasons why I will never do a [...]