Nativity Story Telling & Play with Preschoolers
Our storybook advent continues with another Nativity Story activity ideal for Toddlers and Preschoolers. Today we have ideas and suggestions…
Small World and Imaginative Play for Kids
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Activity for Older Babies, Toddlers and Preschoolers
One of our favourite classic toddler and preschooler books is We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and…
Row Row Row Your Boat Nursery Rhyme Imaginative Play for Babies and Toddlers
One of our favourite Baby Nursery Rhymes is Row Row Row Your Boat. With the multiple verses, it’s a fun…
Favourite Nursery Rhyme Activities and Play Ideas for Toddlers and Preschoolers
We love Nursery Rhymes here on Rainy Day Mum, they are some of the first songs we sang with our…
Stick Man Small World Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers
We love the Julia Donaldson classic “Stick Man” and it’s a perfect book to read in the run-up to Christmas…
Bear Stays Up for Christmas Snowy Invitation to Play
This snowy winter invitation to play offers children a magical world for winter themed indoor play. We lived in often-snowy…
Dinosaur Small World Play in the Water Table
We are starting our annual storybook summer with a week of Dinosaur Activities for kids. Dinosaurs are such a fun…
Sending Playful Holiday Mail With The Jolly Christmas Postman
Growing up, many of my grade school teachers kept The Jolly Christmas Postman in their holiday libraries. My classmates and…
Gift Ideas for Toddlers who Love to Cook
With Christmas around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about presents and if you are anything like us you…
Hibernation Wet Felted Wool Play Mat Tutorial
For our Winter Animal and Hibernation theme with our toddlers and preschoolers, we love setting up a small world play…
Song of the Stars, a Christmas story – brought to you by Barefeet on the dashboard
One of my aims during the Christmas season is to teach J and T the true meaning for Christmas via…
Fairy Garden Small World Play
Hi there, Rainy Day Mum readers! I’m Mary Catherine, and I write about fun, meaningful learning over at Fun-A-Day. Today…
Jungle Sensory Bin
Today is our last of this week Story Book Summer with the Jungle theme – all summer long we are…
Hole in the Bottom of the Sea Imaginative Water Table Play
Hello Rainy Day Mum readers! My name is Hayley and I write at Minne-Mama. I am a stay-at-home mom living…
Mike the Knight simple imaginative play
As a child one of my memories of playing with my brother was re-enacting our favourite TV shows and movies…
100 days of play – going on a floor safari
I’m so excited to be joining in with 100 days of play today – hosted by Sun Scholars and Life…
Sharing a Shell – Virtual Book Club for Kids
Sharing a Shell Small World Play This months virtual book club for kids author is Julia Donaldson – I hope…
Playdough Bakery
Chocolate and Strawberry Playdough Bakery With the snowy weather we have been having I’ve mixed up a couple of batches…
Indoor Snow Day Activities
Building Snowmen – Indoor Snow Day Activities Even more Indoor Snow Day Activities for kids, with some snowmen building. With…
Taste Safe Ocean Sensory Bin
June 8th is World Ocean Day and as you know if you follow my blog I am a former Marine…
Exploring outdoors – shop imaginative play
We’re taking some of our play outside this week for our exploring outdoors post and playing shops. It’s been a…
Pretend Play – Cooking a feast
J is really getting into play more so than actual crafts at the moment – although we still draw and…