on January 27th, 2012
 L has been drawing, drawing, drawing this week- mainly portraits of the family with super long eyelashes and lots of kisses.
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on January 26th, 2012
Many of the play ideas I post here happen as a result of my children taking some everyday materials and experimenting. Having a well stocked making box (which really doesn’t mean lots of expensive art materials) and permission to help themselves to some of our kitchen supplies often leads to all sorts of creativity and learning. Today’s post is an example of how a fusion of two materials can produce lots of thinking about maths, dimensions, construction, creativity, roleplay and of course plenty of fun.
Play dough and cocktail sticks Read more »
on January 25th, 2012
A Mad Hatter’s Tea Party was the perfect birthday party theme for my little bookworm. B turned nine last week and at the weekend we hosted a Book Party for her family and friends, with crazy food and fun activities. The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party was such fun to plan and prepare, with the kids excited about sharing the mad ideas with their friends.
All the invitations were little books, illustrated by B, with the story inside telling the tale of how all the guests were invited to a party. Everyone came dressed as a favourite book character – I was Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother, although sadly no photos of that incarnation remain. I do have lots of photos of what we made and what we ate though, so here’s our round up of how we hosted a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Read more »
on January 24th, 2012
I have a fun competition for you today that not only encourages your kids to be creative but also might win you a £100 or $150 Amazon voucher.
Appliances Online Kids Drawing competition
What would your kids most like to eat? Jelly and chips? Spaghetti and sugar sprinkles? Appliances Online are offering one blogger the chance to win a great Amazon voucher in their Yummy Food competition. Ask your children to draw their favourite food, blog it with the special Appliances Online competition link and it might be you who wins!
on January 23rd, 2012
This idea for contact paper art is the result of my 5-year-old’s love of scissors. She sat listening to an audio book last week, all the while cutting away at a pack of drinking straws with her scissors. I’m not quite sure what it is about snipping she finds so appealing but she loves it at the moment and will cut paper, playdough, card, whatever. Not wanting to put a stop to her current craze, but also not wanting to see all our art supplies vanish into pieces quite so quickly, we gathered up all the drinking straw remnants to use for some contact paper art.
on January 22nd, 2012
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