Made from paint sample cards! We dropped by a hardware store at the weekend and picked up a few paint sample cards. The colours were so...

Preparation This was so easy it barely needs explanation! Get a plastic bottle and remove the cap. Wash it out and let it dry. Stick on...

Created with only a few items easily found around the house We were ready for another winter craft today. Something a bit different. I've...

Esther Crow, children's musician and singer from Thunder and Sunshine, contacted me recently to tell me about her new You Tube video 'The...

Things to talk about every day with young children Learning about the world around them is vital in helping little ones develop. These...

Why retell stories? Getting kids to retell stories in their own words is a valuable tool. In order to retell a story you must first have...

This activity would be a GREAT circle time activity for young kids. The kids and I went to see Michael and the Rockness Monsters a few...

Five minutes preparation time - and you can keep kids busy by getting them to draw the ghosts. This is a super easy game to set up and I...

Some kids don't take to learning their ABCs as enthusiastically as others. That's fine. Its a challenge for us to find creative ways to...

Its kind of ironic isn't it? Squeezing the biggest thing into a shoe box... My son was so so excited to see what I had made for him. I...

This particular activity has a bit of a cheeky ending. Watch the video to see what happens... (or have a look below for the breakdown) I...

Kids love sand. Kids love to dig. Kids love to search for things. Thus you have another way to teach the alphabet! This needs very little...

Most five and six year olds understand the order of a rainbow's colors, give or take the odd mistake. This game uses that knowledge to...

For part one of the Earth Day Sensory Boxes - please click here These sensory boxes can be used to talk about the different kinds of...

Its Earth Day this week so I'm dedicating it to raising awareness of the problems we all face. Bringing our kids up to be aware of the...

This was so much fun and very easy and quick to set up. Building on the 'red words' that we have been teaching my son to read, I wanted...

This week, the kids have been at home on Spring Break so we have played a couple of new games. Both have gone down very well! Silly...

If your kid's teacher has asked you to go through letters, sounds or words that they need to know but you have no idea how to do it then...

Ha so the point of this is that you can actually use ANYTHING to teach the alphabet! The point is to mix it up so that your child is...

Teaching children how to retell stories benefits them in many important ways It is often a theme in early years education that children...