Our pick of the best open-ended toys to gift this Christmas - 30+ toys your children will love but didn't ask for. It's that t...

Ten different ideas of how to use rice to create rich sensory play in the classroom or at home. Sensory play has an important role t...

Rocks are one of my favourite resources for DIY projects for my classroom. They are cheap, easy to source and can be used so many ways. ...

We love our small world or imaginative play here and my children have enjoyed many hours this way. But it's summer time here in Austr...

Looking at outer space in our class? Find plenty of space themed play ideas, simple DIY projects and other space exploration activities ...

Frequent visitors here will know how much we love pretend play or imaginative play . Our living room floor is often home to small world p...

This February we're taking part in Building Blocks and Acorns Fort Building Challenge. For our part of the challenge we were tasked w...

That's it, our school holidays are nearly over and our #easyplayidea series (for now) has come to a close. Here's all ten of our...

Today's #easyplayidea is another simple one - a DIY cardboard house! I've made several of these now and you really are only limit...

Today we had an extra visitor at our house and we made up a batch of sandy cloud dough but after quickly realising our play tub was not ...

After the arrival of ants in pursuit of left-over crumbs ended play outside in our new play tent, today's #easyplayidea involves some...

I read recently in a book about  Brain Rules (affiliate link) I was gifted at Christmas that people don't pay attention to boring thi...

It's the summer school holidays and we're in the middle of our longest break from school which for us means it's the perfect ...

More than 50 of our favourite non-food items to add to your sensory bins to encourage rich hands-on play in Early Childhood. Many of ...

Eight different ways to play with a Grimms Wooden Rainbow Stacker toy from  encouraging your child's imaginative play to promoting S...

It's the winter school holidays for us here in South Australia at the moment and my own children's love of the movie 'Froze...

Plenty of play ideas and printables for the classic picture book 'Dear Zoo' perfect for preschoolers and kindergarten. 'I wr...

Three inspiring DIY rock craft projects to try at home from simple to make fairy garden stones and farm animal story stones to the more ...

It's hot, really hot here at the moment so we're inside a lot more than we'd maybe like.  While some of the world is caught i...

It's hard to ignore that the bloggersphere has lit up this past week with Christmas this and that posts so I might jump on the bandwagon...