Jump start your morning routine

 

With these dark winter mornings my girls sometimes need a little extra encouragement to jump out of bed in the morning.

All this week I’m taking part in the Weetabix Fuel for Big Days campaign and asking for your tips on how you help your children have a great start to their day.

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Join the Carnival of Get Active! Play

active play ideas

Welcome to the Carnival of Get Active! Play

This week’s Play Academy link-up is all about Active Play. Please share an idea for any kind of  active play – a new post or one from your archive.

Running, jumping, dancing, hiking, yoga, climbing, inside or outside – what  active play do your kids enjoy? Help us build a fantastic store of  active play ideas we can use whenever we need a new idea. Read more »

Add ribbons and swirl

dancing with ribbons

I loved Jeanne’s comment saying the title of yesterday’s post sounded like a recipe, so continuing with that idea we today we have ‘take one child, add a dash of ribbons and swirl together with music.’

Children always have the best play ideas, don’t they? These pictures show B enjoying dancing with the streamers she made after discovering a forgotten bag of ribbons. She simply tied a one to the end of a stick and was ready to go. Both my girls love dancing but I’ve resisted sending them to an organised dance class for now, instead letting them explore their own dance style.

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Could you be the Champion of the Playground?

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You don’t often hear me recommending more screen time for children but we’ve been having fun this week with the Champion of the Playground site from Robinsons Fruit Shoot.

Fruit Shoot.com lets you get active by playing a variety of skills based games and watching skills based videos, picking up tips so you can become the . . . → Read More: Could you be the Champion of the Playground?

Tummy time ideas

Does you baby enjoy tummy time? While we always put our babies to sleep by lying them on their backs, giving them the opportunity for some daily tummy time play is important for their development.

Why is tummy time important?

Giving babies time lying on their tummies encourages them to develop their physical skills. They get . . . → Read More: Tummy time ideas

Five fabulous ideas for feet

Five fabulous ideas for a feet theme.

1. Set up a shoe shop: gather together as many different types of shoes as you can: lace-ups, high heels, flippers, wellies, ballet shoes, walking boots, football boots, slippers. Talk about when you would wear all these different types of footwear – what’s special about them? Add in . . . → Read More: Five fabulous ideas for feet

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