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Pretend cupcakes
I had some icing from some biscuits I made so had to find other uses for it. I always keep expired food items for play (it doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I do come across to something that has not been eaten in time and don’t like to just throw it away). I had corn…
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Frozen fractals sensory bin
Freeze some ice trays with coloured water (use food colouring). Add sprinkles, glitter, beads or other small decorations. To make big blocks of ice use plastic containers or lunch boxes. Add Frozen characters or North Pole figurines if your child is not a fan of the Disney film. You can add some warm water to…
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Little Red Riding Hood Re-enactment
Action story telling with puppets and dolls. My little one lives them so have all sort of stories re-enactments.
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Cindirella re-enactment
After Tangled it was clear that I had to do more of the same. So here’s our version of Cindirella.
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Rapunzel re-enactment
If you have Tangled fans, here is a fabulous play idea. Get some dolls to act the story. She played for hours!!!
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Bubble catching
We play with bubbles all the time, but never tried this until today. Great variation.
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Chores & Lifelong skills
My little ones love helping with cooking, dusting or wiping floors. They can practice how to use scissors and knives, graters, brooms, vacuums and other instruments. She had great fun learning how to sew with a jumbo plastic needle and cardboard. We are doing different shapes like squares or triangles.
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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.…
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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.
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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.