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How to Make Fat Balls for Birds with Kids

How to Make Fat Balls for Birds with Kids

This week for our Rainy Day Tots we have a fun week of bird-themed activities. Our first activity is to…

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Phases of the Moon Craft for Kids

Phases of the Moon Craft for Kids

Of all the things in the night sky, the moon is the things that my kids have always found the…

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How to Make a Pitfall Trap with Kids

How to Make a Pitfall Trap with Kids

One of my favourite summer nature activities to do with kids is to head out and set some minibeast traps…

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Feed the Animals Vegetable Sorting Game

Feed the Animals Vegetable Sorting Game

It’s our last week of this year’s storybook summer – but don’t worry we will be back next year and…

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Frog Life Cycle Memory Game

Frog Life Cycle Memory Game

With spring here in our family that means just one thing we are on the hunt for frogs. Ever since…

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DIY Tadpole Food Recipe

DIY Tadpole Food Recipe

With spring lots of animals come out of hibernation and one of our favourites are the frogs. Suddenly the pond…

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Learning about Sea Turtle Conservation with Kids

Learning about Sea Turtle Conservation with Kids

If there is something that has defined my life it’s Sea Turtle Conservation. Twenty years ago this June I headed…

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Recording and Graphing Weather

Recording and Graphing Weather

Weather is one of my favourite early years topics – it’s something that you can include in the curriculum any time…

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First Birds Interactive App from the RSPB

First Birds Interactive App from the RSPB

For the last few years we have been introducing the kids to bird watching – as a child, it was…

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50 Ideas for a Natural Childhood

50 Ideas for a Natural Childhood

Have you noticed how many outdoor posts we have on Rainy Day Mum – although somehow I have become known…

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Born to Be Wild – Nature Activities for Families

Born to Be Wild – Nature Activities for Families

If you looked at our house at the moment you couldn’t miss that it was Spring – there is a…

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Saving Seeds – Plant Science

Saving Seeds – Plant Science

Over the last year, we have been working on our garden clearing the rubbish and reducing the head high weeds…

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Fungus Investigation

Fungus Investigation

Fall for me means long walks wrapped up seeing how the season changes and part of that, is looking out for…

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Where the wild things are – mapping our backyard habitats

Where the wild things are – mapping our backyard habitats

There are not many books for children that regularly top the list of children’s favourite storybooks or books that you…

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Hidden Insect Game – Learn about Insect Camouflage

Hidden Insect Game – Learn about Insect Camouflage

Today as part of our storybook summer we’re going to investigate and learn about insect camouflage as part of our…

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What to plant to attract Ladybugs

What to plant to attract Ladybugs

It’s one of the easiest recognisable bugs for kids – the Ladybird/Ladybug and it’s great for us gardeners as well…

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Wormery journalling

Wormery journalling

This week’s #playfulpreschool theme is all about The Earth, both of my kids are fascinated by what goes on underneath…

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Sea Turtle Life Cycles – Ordering

Sea Turtle Life Cycles – Ordering

I love when I get to pass on to my kids specialist knowledge that I know they won’t get in…

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DIY Nest Box – wildlife gardening with kids

DIY Nest Box – wildlife gardening with kids

The birds are busy in our garden collecting sticks, moss and old feathers to build and line their nests and…

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How hard has it rained – a preschool weather investigation

How hard has it rained – a preschool weather investigation

Weather is one of the first things that very young children start to notice about the world outside the house…

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An Evergreen Nature Hunt

An Evergreen Nature Hunt

One of my favourite Christmas Carols is “The Holly and the Ivy” and it brings back memories of collecting both…

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Spider Web construction with Straws and Playdough

Spider Web construction with Straws and Playdough

Observation and construction of spiders webs using straws and playdough a fun preschool engineering project as part of this weeks playful preschool theme. Check the end of the post for more creepy crawley themed learning and creative activities for preschoolers.

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Shoe Box Constellation Maps – Simple Science at Home

Shoe Box Constellation Maps – Simple Science at Home

This week #playfulpreschool theme is all about Night Time, as the days are getting shorter and the nights longer we’re…

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Wildlife Gardening – Log Pile Home

Wildlife Gardening – Log Pile Home

Wildlife gardening with our kids is one of our main aims for getting outdoors at the moment. As many of…

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