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Today’s activities for toddlers post features some of our favourite ideas for science experiments, active play and having fun outdoors. They’ve all been tried, tested and approved by my own toddlers and are all based on having fun and learning through play. This is part of our Just Right For Toddlers series, bringing your our best ideas for the lovely toddler stage.
Activitites for toddlers :: science Read more »Are you planning any Earth Day activities on April 22nd? Celebrated around the world, Earth Day is a great time to pause and reflect the impact you, your kids and your family have on the earth.
 Last year we carried out an eco-audit of our play, looking at simple but effective ways we could align our activities with the ideas of reducing, re-using and recycling. We’re joining in with the Earth Day Celebrations hosted by Mommy Labs and Greening Sam and Avery to bring you a blog hop bursting with ideas you can use to celebrate Earth Day with your kids. Have a browse around the blog hop at the end of this post to find ideas for art, crafts, games, activities and positive action your family can take to go a little greener this month. First though, here’s what the NurtureStore girls came up with as an Earth Day play idea: we grew an indoor meadow! Earth Day activities: grow a meadow indoors! Read more »I’m so excited it’s March 1st and we can feel the first few wafts of spring in the air that I have a special offer for you today. If you’re planning to play outdoors this year my book The Garden Classroom is packed with fun ideas you can use to really make the most of whatever outdoor space you have. And, because I’m so giddy with spring fever, for this week only I’m giving you a 25% discount at the checkout.
The Garden Classroom e-book :: why you’ll love it! Read more » 5 comments  Counting, Crafts, Creative / Art, Earth Day, Easter, Gardening, Homeschool, Maths, Maths, Nature, Outdoor, Pre-school Ideas, Rainy Days, School Age, School Gardening, School holidays, Science, Science, Sensory, Spring, Summer, the garden classroom  crafts, Gardening, kids activities, play outdoors, school gardening club, Spring
We’ve been doing some baking this week – made our Christmas cake, complete with wishes – and L was really interested in the scales we were using. In the past, although she’s always joined in, it’s been big sister who’s done most of the weighting, so it was interesting this time too see L looking closely at all those numbers and trying to weigh her own hand. Time for an experiment to answer L’s repeated question: what does it weigh? What does it weigh? kids’ experiments Read more » |
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