Hop hop! This frog craft is so much fun, we are jumping with excitement! This craft is fairly simple, but we are so excited because it is just as much fun to play with as it is to make. Read on for all the instructions and photo details, and soon you’ll be jumping with us!… Read more »
It’s Easy to Make Your Own Confetti Cannon!
No matter what you are celebrating, everything is better with confetti! This homemade confetti cannon is simple to make, and easy to use. You can fill your confetti cannon with your own homemade confetti made from tissue paper or coloured paper, and use it to celebrate anything at all! A special birthday! The start of… Read more »
My Favourite Things Time Capsule
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favourite things – ‘My Favourite Things’, The Sound Of Music Our favourite things. As we get older, the fluctuation of what our favourite things tend to slow down… Read more »
Imaginative Play: Small World of Dinosaurs
Imaginative play has wonderful benefits for children’s development. Experts find that children who engage in pretending are more creative, perform better in school, and develop a strong problem-solving approach to learning. In this dinosaur themed activity, most of the fun comes from using our imagination to build the world of dinosaurs. You can use anything… Read more »
Dinosaur Shapes & Number Pegs
Get your preschoolers involved with a Dinosaur Shape & Number Peg activity! Using wooden clothes pegs, pre-cut foam stickers and cut out dinosaurs, you can create a wonderfully easy and simple learning task for your toddlers. It will help them practise numbers, colours and shapes in a fun and enjoyable way. Not only will they… Read more »
Dinosaurs Discoveries
Dinosaurs may be gone, but we’re learning new things about them every day. Scientists discover a new kind of dinosaur about once a week! And by using new technology, they can learn more from fossils now than they ever could before. Here are three exciting discoveries from this new golden age of dinosaur science. Raptor… Read more »
Frozen Dinosaur Ice Eggs
These super simple frozen dinosaur ice eggs are perfect for playing paleontologist! They are easy to make, and children will love helping the ice melt by dripping warm water onto the ice egg, and watching the dinosaur inside slowly reveal itself. Real paleontologists have also made dinosaur discoveries that have been trapped in ice and… Read more »
Dinosaur Themed Sensory Play
Dinosaurs and play dough. The perfect combination for a whole lot of play! Sometimes getting the play dough out with your normal tools is enough to keep your children occupied… and sometimes it’s not! Children without a doubt require some sort of sensory play on a week to week basis. It allows them to switch… Read more »
Play Ice Cream Dough
This ice cream dough might look good enough to eat, but it’s made to be played with! If kept in a properly sealed ziplock bag, it should last forever! If it gets hard or dry, you can bring it back to life with a few drops of water, and add in a little bit of… Read more »
Make A Volcano!
This volcano project uses all four of our primary senses – smell, touch, sight, and hearing. You can tell by using these four senses that this is not something you want to eat, so we won’t be using our sense of taste in this project! But we’ll be able to smell the vinegar, touch the… Read more »
