It’s been a lovely week, apart from a spectacular thunderstorm yesterday, and today was beautiful. I wanted to make sure I got the kids outside in the afternoon, once the 6yo was home from school. I knew that the chance […]
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It was time to use our new tuff spot! The 4yo was desperate to try something messy and I hoped that the wee girl would enjoy it too… Of course, it didn’t quite go to plan *ahem* but we had
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Our tuff spot has arrived! Or our ‘Active World Tray’, as the one I found here in the States, is called :) We haven’t used it in anger yet, but the boys were desperate to get it out in the
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We’ve spent quite a bit of time in the garden this week, and most activities have been art based, and quite messy – so much so that I just couldn’t separate my posts this week and decided to write a
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My planned messy play activity for this week was to try making some edible finger paint so that I could let the wee girl loose without worrying about her putting the paint straight in her mouth! I found several different
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The boys have been on holiday this week, so I’ve been looking for activities to reduce the number of times I hear the words ‘I’m bored… what can I do now…’ from the 6yo! My biggest success was some fun
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Messy play is not something that I have done much of… I’ve always been a bit reluctant to create (and clean up!) mess. I do craft activities with the boys, but they tend to be drawing/painting/sticking type activities which are
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