We love parachute games! They are great for some large scale play with a group of children and are wonderful for promoting team work and listening skills, as everyone needs to work together to follow instructions and listen to cues to make the games work. You can play parachute games inside or out, with . . . → Read More: Parachute games
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What? Repeating patterns are everywhere: in fabric designs, buildings in your neighbourhood, in the songs that you sing. Any sequence of colours, shapes, actions that repeact twice or more become a repeating pattern. Why? So what have repeating patterns got to do with your children’s play? Well, by looking out for . . . → Read More: Maths games: repeating patterns Things to keep in your nappy bag to keep children occupied while waiting for an appointment: what do you always carry with you? Small books, paper and pencils, pot of bubble stuff? How about a dice*? Here’s a couple of suggestions for simple dice games to play whenever you need to keep the kids entertained for . . . → Read More: Games to play with dice Yoga is a wonderful activity for young children. They are naturally flexible and you often see them in poses a yoga follower would recognise from their practice. The picture above shows a position my daughter adopts frequently. Any yoga fans would recognise it as a Downward Dog but to my daughter it’s just a . . . → Read More: Yoga for kids A quick and simple game to play to boost your child’s language and get them moving. Ask you child if they can tell you an animal which flutters? And can they move like one too? What about an animal that wiggles…swims…flies…dives…stomps…jumps…shuffles…bounces…slithers…stalks…pounces…gallops? After you’ve played the game a few times and your child has been using the new words you . . . → Read More: Flutter like a butterfly and wiggle like a worm Do you remember playing ‘What’s the time Mr. Wolf?’ when you were a child? Great fun and a nice way to incorporate counting into a game. Best played outside where there is lots of space to run. One person - Mr. Wolf – is ’on’ and stands facing a wall or tree. The other players stand a few metres away and . . . → Read More: Counting game – what's the time Mr. Wolf?  |
   
                    
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