Tag: indoor play

  • Bubble catching

    Bubble catching

    We play with bubbles all the time, but never tried this until today. Great variation.

  • Chores & Lifelong skills

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • Ball garland, stay home ideas 1

    Ball garland, stay home ideas 1

    Get some tape and balls from the ball pit and make garlands. Short activity, but they can use the tape several times so worth making a few attempts to practice colour sorting and various designs.