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Keep a basket of small toys and figures for visual storytelling. | 31 Clever And Inexpensive Ideas For Teaching Your Child At Home

Make some activity jars for busy kids this summer! No more “I’m bored!” or “what can I do now?”, these activity jars are packed full of simple, easy to prepare ideas to help kids make their own choices, direct their own play and keep busy throughout the school break. Yay! Before I write about this...Read More »

Make a simple rhyming activity to help practise rhyming pairs and learn about literacy in a playful, hands-on way! This would be great for both home and the classroom as a go-to resource on the shelf. We have been practising hearing and identifying rhyming words together recently and focused initially on identifying rhyming strings with...Read More »

Make a fun sight word game for kids with these simple, DIY sight word pebbles! An easy learning resource for open-ended, playful literacy and tactile fun for beginner readers!

Science Activity: Fizzing Fairy Potions!

Set up a fun phonics activity for preschoolers and school aged children with this sorting objects into baskets game! Easy, low-preparation and adaptable

Have wonderful fun with these frozen dinosaur eggs for sensory play and scientific discovery! So easy to make and play with as part of imaginative, small world play scene and great for dinosaur loving kids. Playing with ice is an absolute favourite sensory and science activity for small kids to explore! We have often enjoyed...Read More »

Learn how to make this calming lavender slime recipe with natural plant ingredients and easy to find UK materials. Takes 2 minutes to mix up for plenty of stretchy, scented, relaxing play time fun! We have been big fans of making our own slime this summer, now that we have perfected our super simple slime...Read More »

Make these all natural fruit play dough recipes for sensory play with young children! A great follow up to our natural dyes for play dough article and a lovely way to combine the natural scents with natural colouring too. The play dough archives just keep on getting bigger and bigger here on the blog! Recently I wrote about our all...Read More »

Here are the BEST summer activities for kids, all neatly wrapped up in one post for you to pin and come back to often, with a bonus FREE SUMMER ACTIVITY POSTER to download and print out too! Whoop! With that long school break coming up again many of us are thinking “OH NO! What will...Read More »