Nurturing Tiny Fingers: Boosting Fine Motor Skills at 4
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Nurturing Tiny Fingers: Boosting Fine Motor Skills at 4

Learn about fine motor skills for four-year-olds and ways you can support your child’s development through play. Fine motor skills are foundational skills that are vital for so many life skills. In a world with many advancements, it is unfortunate that many children are entering formal schooling without these vital skills. So buckle up and…

Sun-safe Babies and Kids: Choosing the Best Sunscreen
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Sun-safe Babies and Kids: Choosing the Best Sunscreen

As the sun shines brighter and outdoor adventures beckon, protecting your little one’s delicate skin with the best infant sunscreen becomes more crucial than ever. Babies have especially sensitive skin that requires careful attention and protection from harmful UV rays. With an overwhelming array of options on the market, choosing the right sunscreen for infants…

Mastering Movement: the Dance of Fine Motor Skills Vs. Gross Motor Skills
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Mastering Movement: the Dance of Fine Motor Skills Vs. Gross Motor Skills

Understanding the differences between these fine motor skills and gross motor skills is essential for fostering a child’s physical development and enhancing their confidence as they navigate their environment. As toddlers embark on their journey of exploration and discovery, they engage in a myriad of activities that contribute to their overall development. Among the most…

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First Steps in the Writing World: Guiding Preschoolers

Writing is a fundamental skill that serves as a building block for literacy and communication. It begins long before children pick up a pencil. In preschool, children embark on an exciting journey into the world of writing. A place where they explore letters, sounds, and the joy of expression.  At this stage, writing is not…

Joyful Gifting: the Ultimate Guide to Gifts for 1-year-olds

With your special persons first birthday coming up, this is an ultimate guide to gifts for 1-year-olds that will help you choose the perfect gift to celebrate their special day. The Ultimate Guide to Gifts for 1-year-olds Choosing the ideal birthday present for my 1-year-olds has been a journey of both excitement and challenge for…

Natural Play: Threading Wooden Rings on Branches
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Natural Play: Threading Wooden Rings on Branches

Threading onto natural branches is a great sensory activity for your toddler. Loads of incidental learning and developing vital skills. All with some natural branches! Threading with Natural Branches I discovered a gem of an activity that perfectly blends learning and nature. Threading wooden rings onto natural branches not only engaged my little one but…

Sensory Scooping: Ultimate Toddler Play Guide
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Sensory Scooping: Ultimate Toddler Play Guide

Scoop and transfer activities have been a favourite go to in our play room for years and for good reason. Within. minutes a simple and engaging sensory activity can be set up and ready to play. These invitations to play always inspire creativity and allow for developing so many vital skills! Scoop and Transfer Activities…

Splashing Fun: Cotton Ball Fish Activity for Toddlers
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Splashing Fun: Cotton Ball Fish Activity for Toddlers

This cotton ball fish activity is a great way to fill a spare half hour using resources that you likely have at home already. It is a perfect activity that proves simple can be the most engaging. All three of my kids have loved this easy set up fine motor activity. They love using the…

Eco-friendly Fun: Making Play Dough Robots with Recycled Parts
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Eco-friendly Fun: Making Play Dough Robots with Recycled Parts

Be inspired to make play dough robots using recycled electronic parts from old controllers in this fun fine motor activity for toddlers and preschoolers. There is something fascinating about discovering the circuits, wires and springs inside old electronics. Using grown up tools such as a screwdriver (with proper adult supervision) adds an extra element of…

Tops & Peels Playtime: Eco-friendly Sensory Fun with Construction Trucks
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Tops & Peels Playtime: Eco-friendly Sensory Fun with Construction Trucks

Dinner prep turned into an impromptu play time with some tops and peels sensory fun. Kids are non stop, ‘play with the box more than the toy that came in the box’. This is a perfect example of why kids don’t need all the fancy toys, bells and whistles. Simple play can be the best…

Engaging Toddlers: the Rubber Bands on Cans Fine Motor Fun
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Engaging Toddlers: the Rubber Bands on Cans Fine Motor Fun

Strengthen those fine motor skills with this easy play idea, rubber bands on cans. With a decline of students entering kindergarten with the needed fine motor skills, as parents it is our responsibility to equip our children to give our kids the opportunity to develop these vital skills. These opportunities don’t need to be using…

Sail Away: a Guide to Boats in Jelly Messy Play for Toddlers
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Sail Away: a Guide to Boats in Jelly Messy Play for Toddlers

What better way to get curious toddler hands exploring than a sensory play tray filled with boats in jelly! Better yet, we found an even more cost effective way to make jelly play, meaning more jelly for bigger play! We then teamed up our jelly with some boats to inspire magical spark in Mr 3s…

Fun with Concrete Oobleck: Construction Play for Toddlers
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Fun with Concrete Oobleck: Construction Play for Toddlers

Level up your oobleck fun with this concrete oobleck construction truck sensory play activity for your truck loving toddler. We have made oobleck countless times over the years. Every single time, oobleck ticks the boxes and the kids love it. This time, I really wanted to follow Mr 3s current passion for all things construction…

Rolling into Fun: Apple Activities for Young Learners
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Rolling into Fun: Apple Activities for Young Learners

Have fun exploring cause and effect with your toddler, rolling apples. Yup, apples. The first time we tried this activity was years ago and it was as much a hit then as it is now. The kids love it! The apples roll in unpredictable ways and there is something captivating watching them roll down the…

Egg-citing Scoop & Transfer: Water Play Fun for Toddlers
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Egg-citing Scoop & Transfer: Water Play Fun for Toddlers

Reuse those plastic eggs left over from easter to cream this scoop and transfer egg water play activity for your toddler. Plastic fillable eggs are brilliant for play all year round. Teamed up with some kitchen essentials, and a bit of water and you can have this seemingly simple activity set up in minutes. I…

Enchanted Silhouettes: a Guide to Magic Writing Cloth Fun
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Enchanted Silhouettes: a Guide to Magic Writing Cloth Fun

Strengthen fine motor skills using just water with this easy set up magic writing cloth silhouettes activity. Looking at these images, I can understand the *gasp* that may be leaving your lips however please, chill and breathe. Yes, it looks like there is black ‘paint’ happening… and indoors however it really isn’t! The black is…

Mastering the Art of Chocolate Play Dough: a Simple Guide
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Mastering the Art of Chocolate Play Dough: a Simple Guide

A stormy day meant play time was primarily indoors and what better way to celebrate the muddy puddles outside than with some deliciously scented chocolate play dough! We have made brown play dough time and time again for many activities. Our gingerbread play dough is perfect for Christmas and doubled beautifully as a muddy track…

Thrifty Threading: Wooden Tubes and Paper Towel Holders
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Thrifty Threading: Wooden Tubes and Paper Towel Holders

Encourage your baby to learn through play with this fun DIY threading with wooden tubes activity. Use common household items to transform a humble wooden tube into a game that your baby will want to do over and over again. Each grasp will be strengthening their hands. Each mistake will be a neural connection made,…

Pie O’clock: Mixing Time-telling Apple Pies
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Pie O’clock: Mixing Time-telling Apple Pies

Turn learning how to tell the time into a fun baking activity with time telling apple pies. A Slice of Learning: Time Telling Apple Pies  I’ve always believed that the kitchen serves as one of the best classrooms. What better lesson than combining the art of baking apple pies with the fundamental skill of telling…

Bubbling over with Fun: a Bubble Pouring Station Guide
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Bubbling over with Fun: a Bubble Pouring Station Guide

If you are searching for an activity to regulate moods, entertain, encourage development and make some memories, look no further than a bubble pouring station. The classic pouring station will always have its place in the top activities to do with toddlers. In saying that, this is better. Bubbles are better. Adding bubbles to our…