Rainy Day Mum - Part 2

Exploring Outdoors - seasons changing

By Rainy Day Mum on 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 [...]

Day 21 of 30 days to hands on play

By Rainy Day Mum on 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 [...]

Blogs that bring books alive

By Rainy Day Mum on Saturday, 12th of May 2012 at 07:00:00 AM

I 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 [...]

Day 20 – 30 days to hands on play

By Rainy Day Mum on Friday, 11th of May 2012 at 09:38:04 PM

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 [...]

Exploring outdoors - shop imaginative play

By Rainy Day Mum on Friday, 11th of May 2012 at 07:00:00 AM

We’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 [...]

Day 19 - 30 days to hands on play

By Rainy Day Mum on Thursday, 10th of May 2012 at 09:30:00 PM

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 [...]