Category: Play

  • Stay home ideas 12

    Stay home ideas 12

    An easy and active game using a few pages of paper. Make a path laying down the pages and come up with ways to walk on them. I can’t remember all of them, but we did balancing objects on the head, blind walk, backwards walk, frog jumps, side jumps, dog walk, knees walk, sausage rolls.…

  • Beauty station – stay home ideas 10

    Beauty station – stay home ideas 10

    Lots of play with a make up mirror, hair clips, glasses (old frames), fascinators, scarfs and some perfume and lipstick.

  • Placard making – stay home ideas 9

    Placard making – stay home ideas 9

    We’ve taken part in the Scottish CND challenge #windowsforpeace to make a placard and display it in the window. Stamping, cutting and sticking, writing and coloring on a cardboard kept them occupied for hours.

  • Camping in the garden stay home ideas 8

    Camping in the garden stay home ideas 8

    Get out a tent and make a fire. We did marshmallows and corn on the comb. That was great fun! We did this at weekend and my little one is asking every day if we are making a fire again.

  • Stay home ideas 7

    Stay home ideas 7

    Make an outdoor bed. I used the trampoline and added pillows and blankets, but you can use a paddling pool or just put blankets on the grass if not wet. Watch the clouds or stars, have a snack, count birds and admire the nature.

  • Stay home ideas 6

    Stay home ideas 6

    Here’s some of today’s highlights: – hot chocolate outside – practicing letters – sensory shaving foam & colours bag

  • Yarn wigs

    Yarn wigs

    I made some yarn wigs for a Halloween party a while back. It turns out they are great for pretend play. You need yarn, a few bits of fabric preferably felt, a needle with thread or a sewing machine and some elastic band. The red wig was very easy to make just use an elastic…

  • Stay home ideas 5

    Stay home ideas 5

    Sand play (warning – it gets messy) and painting rainbows for kids to spot on their walks. This depends where you live, some countries put teddies in the window, here in Scotland we have rainbows.

  • Stay home ideas 4

    Stay home ideas 4

    There so much happening in a lock down day. Today’s highlights were: cooking together, kids work out on YouTube, play in the rain with umbrellas and a splash in muddy puddles and foot spa fun. The last was the far the most fun part for my little ones.

  • Stay home ideas 3

    Stay home ideas 3

    Another day home with the kids. Much happens in a day, but here’s some of our main activities from today. Poker, throwing stones and milk bottles bowling.