on January 19th, 2012%
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.
Keep an eye on the . . . → Read More: Jump start your morning routine
on August 26th, 2011%

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 »
on July 5th, 2011%

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.
Create your own dance studio Read more »
on June 18th, 2011%
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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?
on June 14th, 2011%
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
on May 22nd, 2011%
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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