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Baby Play - Spaghetti Sensory

Rainy Day Mum

Friday, 18th of May 2012 at 07:00:00 AM

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 Spaghetti Cooked 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 [...]

Art Explorers

Toddler Art Exploration – Mondrian

Rainy Day Mum

Wednesday, 16th of May 2012 at 08:23:50 PM

I have been very excited to hear about this series from Red Ted Art. J loves art and craft and likes looking at the painting and pictures that we have around the house but we haven’t really spoken about art in any detail so this was a perfect opportunity to focus on his love of art and crafts and his interest in looking at pictures. We have chosen Mondrian as our starting point – J is very into shapes and colours and instead of focusing on techniques I was able to use Mondrian’s cubism style to our advantage.

Looking and talking about Mondrian [...]

Craft

Mary had a Little Lamb craft

Rainy Day Mum

Wednesday, 16th of May 2012 at 07:00:00 AM

With our farm themed books over the last couple of weeks and farm visits J is very into farm animals. We have also been singing some Animal rhymes to go along with these and the one that seems to have caught his imagination is “Mary had a little Lamb”. He will sing along with me, so when cousin Z visited I got out our craft supplies (and my beauty supplies) and we got making some little lambs.

Mary had a little lamb craft What you need to create our Little Lamb

Some cardboard (our was from a box that was going to [...]

Baking

Cooking with kids - Wheels on the bus sweet and savoury

Rainy Day Mum

Monday, 14th of May 2012 at 07:00:00 AM

I’m really going to try and make an effort and have a go at cooking with J and possibly T on a weekly basis. This is the food that we cooked as part of the 30 days to hands on play (day 18 of the challenge). They are Wheels on the Bus – we made savoury and sweet versions and they are VERY easy to make.

cooking with kids wheels on the bus themed food What you need to make the wheels on the bus

Some ready rolled puff pastry Tomato Puree Grated Cheese Selection of Herbs Jam or other sweet filling [...]

Action

Exploring Outdoors - seasons changing

Rainy Day Mum

Sunday, 13th of May 2012 at 07:00:00 AM

I took J on a explore of the garden looking at what things have changed. Because we have had rain almost constantly for April we haven’t really seen what has changed that much. But things are moving towards summer new plants are opening and the garden is VERY green all of a sudden (probably to do with the rain).

We took our camera with us and J and I took pictures of things that had changed since our last camera visit. His camera skills are getting better as he’s learnt to wait for the camera to focus and then press the button. We are starting to get some really good [...]

30 Day Hands on Play Challenge

Day 21 of 30 days to hands on play

Rainy Day Mum

Saturday, 12th of May 2012 at 07:50:10 PM

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 [...]