100 Fun & Easy Learning Games for Kids is a super new book full of simple, fun activities for children aged 3 to 7. Here’s a peek inside the book at one of the activities: making family photo word puzzles to help your child learn to spell their name and other important words.
The BBC reported this week that homemade play dough can contain enough salt to poison children. It said no fatalities have been reported, but advised that children should be watched carefully when playing with any play dough. It didn’t offer any alternative recipes that contain little or no salt, and it didn’t say that play dough is an amazing sensory material that offers so much to children who have the opportunity to play with it.
Homemade play dough, used with thought, care and imagination, is perhaps the best childhood material there is, in my opinion. So, rather than feel scared that it might harm our children, and stop using it, let’s look at how amazing it is, and try a salt free play dough recipe.
Here’s a really simple and fun mud kitchen play idea: use chalk!
Making puppets with children is a springboard into art, story telling, role play and lots of language practise. Here are some great ideas you can use to make and play with puppets.
Take a book, any book, but preferably a favourite, and bring it to life for a day of creative play with these story book activities.
Whether you are celebrating Vesak with your children, or want them to learn about Buddha, these Buddha Day activities will help you mark the occasion, lesson plan for Buddha Day, and give your children an introduction to Buddhism.
