Here’s another idea in our recipes for play series, this time showing you how to make colored salt, which is great for sensory play and learning.
Jungle small world :: play dough fun
Some homemade play dough and a few loose parts, together with a child’s imagination, soon make a fabulous jungle small world.
Here’s one way we use play dough for imaginary play and story telling.
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Sleepy bunnies small world sensory tub
This small world sensory tub came to life after I took my own advice! Last week when we were talking about loose parts free play I mentioned my idea of using a Magic Three – three items from our super loose parts list {click through to print your own copy} – when you need a little spark of something new. Here’s what happened when we combined rice, shells and cotton wool!
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Activities for toddlers :: sensory play
Welcome to our special week on NurtureStore where we’re focusing on all things toddlers! The ‘terrible twos’ has such a bad reputation but really toddlers are at a wonderful stage of childhood. It’s a time when they are on their feet and ready to explore the world. They’re beginning to chat and to enjoy imaginary play and it’s such a lovely time to see your child’s personality developing. The ideas in our Just Right For Toddlers series are all based on learning through play and cover maths games, early reading and writing, arts and crafts and more. Today, to start our series, here are our favourite ideas for sensory play.
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Kids art :: exploring texture
Here’s a kids art idea that you can try at home using recycled items that you’d otherwise throw away – we’re up-cycling and exploring texture to make touchy feeling patchwork pictures.
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Queen of Hearts jam tart play dough recipe
We took our favourite play dough recipe and transformed it into some fun messy play, making jam tarts for the Queen of Hearts in our Valentine bakery.
