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…