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Life with Toddlers, tips, tricks, activities, crafts and more

Fun and Simple Halloween Crafts for Toddlers

Fun and Simple Halloween Crafts for Toddlers

Halloween can be quite a scary time for little ones but you can make it fun and a lot less scary for them with some fun and easy crafts for toddlers. ...

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Tips for Helping your Toddler Avoid Meltdowns When Travelling This Summer

Tips for Helping your Toddler Avoid Meltdowns When Travelling This Summer

Traveling with toddlers can be super stressful. At any minute, they can get upset and have a meltdown. The key is to make sure you’re one step ahead ...

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Top Tips for Camping with Toddlers

Top Tips for Camping with Toddlers

If you have never camped with toddlers, listen up. Camping with toddlers is hit or miss. Sometimes you win the toddler camping lottery and other times ...

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40+ Fun Easter Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

40+ Fun Easter Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Easter always puts a spring in my crafty and imagination mojo and kick-starts the creativity throughout spring and well into summer. The first year ...

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Irish Soda Bread – cooking with toddlers

Irish Soda Bread – cooking with toddlers

It's getting near St Patrick's Day and all of the inspiring posts I shared with our St Patrick's Day Activities for Tots got me in the mood to make ...

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The BIG LIST of Dinosaur Crafts and Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

The BIG LIST of Dinosaur Crafts and Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

One of our favourite topics is Dinosaurs. I've loved them since I was a child and visited the Natural History Museum in London seeing the huge ...

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Fun Activities for 18-month-olds and younger

Fun Activities for 18-month-olds and younger

Have you tried lots of activities you've pinned and discovered that the art and crafts don't end up anything like they are meant to, or you have a ...

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2-Ingredient Apple Scented Playdough Recipe

2-Ingredient Apple Scented Playdough Recipe

For the last 5 years whenever I have needed to make some playdough I have used the recipe from The Imagination Tree for the 4-minute no cook playdough ...

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5 Books about Love – to share with babies and toddler year round

5 Books about Love – to share with babies and toddler year round

With Valentines at the end of the week, I've been raiding our bookshelves looking for some books about love to share with the kids.  I realize that we ...

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Sensory Dinosaur Small World Play

Sensory Dinosaur Small World Play

Hello! I am Emma from Adventures of Adam.   You won’t believe how thrilled I am to be appearing on Rainy Day Mum. I am Mum to 2 year old Adam. At ...

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Jungle Inspired Collage Activity for KId

Jungle Inspired Collage Activity for KId

Hi, I am Jamie from Hand Made Kids Art. I am the mother of Lil B (5 years old), M-Woww (3 years old) and Jellybean (3 months old). At Hand Made Kids ...

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Ocean Animal Sorting Activity with FREE Printables

Ocean Animal Sorting Activity with FREE Printables

Ordering and sorting are one of the first ways that you can introduce measuring to toddlers and early preschoolers. An ideal way to do this is through ...

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Hole in the Bottom of the Sea Imaginative Water Table Play

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 in Minnesota with my husband and ...

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Prewriting skills – draw and erase

Prewriting skills – draw and erase

Prewriting skills is an important stage in child development, it's those squiggles, lines and circles that eventually will form individual letters, ...

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Blocks for Learning

Blocks for Learning

Playing with blocks is fun for children of all ages from babies to older children with their Lego. Using them for learning at different levels is a ...

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Valentines Sensory Play and Craft ideas

Valentines Sensory Play and Craft ideas

With Valentines day around the corner, preparing and getting activities ready for the lead up and the day is one of the things that as parents and ...

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If you give a mouse a cookie math game

If you give a mouse a cookie math game

The Virtual Book Club for Kids author this month is Laura Numeroff and we have chosen the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. This is a new to us ...

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Creative Christmas Cards from Recycled Cards

Creative Christmas Cards from Recycled Cards

  Recycled Christmas Card Craft for young children Keep Christmas Cards and they can be recycled to make some new cards the following year - ...

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I Spy Game and Telescope Craft for Toddlers and Preschoolers

I Spy Game and Telescope Craft for Toddlers and Preschoolers

It's fun to incorporate a craft and a game together and as this months Virtual Book Club for Kids we've combined the two to create a telescope and a ...

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Exploring Floating and Sinking in the Water Table

Exploring Floating and Sinking in the Water Table

This week marks the last of the 2012 - 2013 Virtual Book Club for Kids Authors and it's Donald Crews it's another new to me author and we had a lot of ...

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Straw Blown Family Tree Activity for Preschoolers

Straw Blown Family Tree Activity for Preschoolers

Welcome to Animal Adventure week of the Virtual Book Club - today we're sharing a craft activity to go with the book One Gorilla: A counting book by ...

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