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Bright Star Kids Name Labels Review

by Play Inspired Mumupdated on January 13, 2020December 29, 2019Leave a Comment on Bright Star Kids Name Labels Review

I was recently approached by Bright Star Kids with the opportunity to review their back to school name labels. With the new school year looming and a box full of …

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Jungle Bingo: Toy Review

by Play Inspired Mumupdated on December 19, 2019August 14, 2019Leave a Comment on Jungle Bingo: Toy Review

Does your family love board games or are you looking at starting your own board game collection? You NEED to check out the latest release from Laurence King Publishing : …

  • 🦴 NEW Body Parts Look Book 🦴 Have fun learning about all your different body parts and systems! Includes Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes sing along 😊😊😊 This pack includes: 15 single sided pages Includes: ✅ Label Body Parts ✅ Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes Song ✅ Skeletal System ✅ Respiratory System ✅ Nervous System ✅ Digestive System ✅ Urinary System ✅ Reproductive System Get more details via link in bio 🙌 #learningathome #learning #learningthroughplay #lookbook #bodyparts #anatomywithkids #science #sciencewithkids #learningeveryday #systemsofthebody #preschoolactivities #preschoolathome #activitieswithkids #activitiesforkids #activitiesforchildren #kidsactivities
  • 🌈 Wax Resistance Painting 🌈 There is really something a bit magic about wax resistance painting. Miss 3 loved exposing her white crayon designs with her watercolours 💓 #playinspiredmum #toddlerart #toddlerartideas #playathome #learningathome #watercolours #rainbows #waxresistance #toddleractivity #paintingwithkids #learningwithoutworksheets #learningmadefun #simpleactivities
  • 🎲 Playdough Monsters 🎲 Roll the dice, choose the number of loose parts that equals the value on the dice and then use them to build a monster! Miss 3 & 6, loved the game and took turns deciding who went first by rolling the higher number. The monsters then became inspiration behind some stories, which exposed their different characters 🙌 Mr 17 days did make sitting down to join in a bit challenging but feeling grateful that he did find comfort eventually and I was able to enjoy listening to the girls grow their monsters tales #refluxsucks #playinspiredmum #playdough #looseparts #numeracy #earlynumeracy #earlynumeracyskills #earlynumeracyideas #learningwithoutworksheets #finemotorskills #occupationaltherapy #learningathome #readingdice #symbols #sensoryplayideas #sensoryplay #sensoryactivity #homemadeplaydough #playathome #learningathome
  • 🚤 How Many Ooshies Will Sink the Boat 🚤 The lovely spring afternoon was calling for some water play. Miss 3 loved testing her theory that it would take 7 ooshies to sink her little DIY boat. Mr 13 days old chilled with mumma while Miss 3 experimented and played. #playinspiredmum #waterplay #experimentalplay #learningathome #learningthroughplay #playideas #playtolearn #easyplayideas #easyplayforkids #easyplayactivities #activitiesforkids #activitiesfortoddlers #sensoryplay #ooshies #playideasforkids #sensoryplayideas
  • 👀 ABC Sticky Note Hunt 👀 Mr 12 days old has had a grizzly afternoon so Miss 6 helped me set up this activity while I tended to her brother. She wrote the alphabet onto the sticky notes; one letter per sticky. Then she and Miss 3 stuck half each all around the yard before hunting for them in alphabetical order. Miss 6 loved the activity, darting around, going back to where she remembered seeing letters 🙌 While she loved the idea,Miss 3, who was very tired already, got overwhelmed and ended up in a full blown three year old tantrum on the grass. Big emotions were dealt a big cup of crunchy ice to chomp on to calm her down 😅#threenager Another activity inspired by the ‘Learning Without Worksheets’ play challenge from the ‘Activity Room’ 🥰 Check out more info on the ‘Activity Room’ on our resource page! #playinspiredmum #grossmotor #learningwithoutworksheets #playbasedlearning #letterrecognition #memorybuilding #literacy #stickynotes #playideas #playideasforkids #playideasfortoddlers #playathome #learningathome #playtolearn #easyplayideas #easylearningideas
  • 🌟 FREE Printable Emotional Regulation Traffic Light Chart 🌟 😭😥😫🤯😱😆😊😍😁 Need help understanding and identifying emotions? 🙋‍♀️ Try this traffic light system to help know when to stop and use a calm down strategy, or when you're good to go! Learn about emotions and try the different strategies to see what works to help you and you little one keep calm and regulated 💖 A great resource for managing, understanding and regulating emotions, especially for Autism and those struggling with facial recognition and managing their emotions. Find the link on our resource page in bio, add to cart ($0) and go through checkout to download yours instantly! Have you seen the Emotions Look Books? This chart is a great extension on the Look Book Activities too! #playtolearn #emotionalregulation #learningemotions #emotionalintelligence #playbasedlearning #emotionalregulationskills #emotionalregulationforkids #freeprintables #freeprintable #visualaids #visualaid
  • 🧩 DIY Block Puzzle 🧩 Another great activity from the ‘Learning Without Worksheets’ play challenge 🙌 The brief was to fill the taped shape so there was no carpet to be seen! Both girls jumped right onto it and completed the challenge with success 🙏 While filling in their shapes the girls practised 💡 Spatial Awareness 💡 Hand Eye Coordination 💡 Colour Recognition 💡 2D Shape Recognition 💡 3D Shape Recognition 💡 Following Oral Instruction 💡 Crossing Midline 💡 Sequencing Who would have thought so much learning could come from a bucket of wooden blocks and some masking tape 😁 #playinspiredmum #learningathome #learningthroughplay #learning #preschoolactivity #toddleractivity #toddleractivitiesathome #toddleractivities #homeschooltoddler #mathsmadefun #playbasedlearning #playbased #playbasedpreschool #playbasedlearningforallabilities #playchallenge
  • 🦕 🚧 Dino Mud Dig 🚧🦕 Nothing like some messy play to help the bigger kids pass a newborn feed 🙌 Miss 6 whipped up some of our taste safe mud and Miss 3 selected the toys to explore the tray! What works: TEAMWORK! The girls loved setting up their own sensory play tray and enjoyed getting messy even more! With the exemption of the toys, everything else here is safe for mouthing toddlers! Would you like the mud recipe? Comment below! #playinspiredmum #tastesafe #tastesafesensoryplay #tastesafeplay #dinosauractivity #tastesafemud #tastesafemessyplay #messyplay #messyplayideas #sensoryplayfortoddlers #playideas #learningthroughplay #learningthroughplaying #playtolearn #playideasfortoddler #playideasforkids
  • 🌈 Cotton Tip Name Recognition 🌈 Fine motor strengthening with a side of name familiarity and splash of a rainbow! The brief was to dot, dot, dot along the faint pencil name outline using the cotton tips 🙌 The girls both lost patience with the dots to be honest, however they still created some lovely masterpieces! Miss 3 was thrilled to discover her pencil could pierce the paper against the grass 🙈😆 #playinspiredmum #learningwithoutworksheets #finemotorskills #learningthroughplay #playbasedlearning #finemotoractivity #playtolearn #meaningfulplayideas #meaningfulplay #learningathome #springafternoons #playtime #paintingwithkids #watercolourwithkids #preschoolactivities #preschoolathome
  • And just like that, our family is complete 💕 Introducing Massimo Giuseppe 🥰 🗓 29th September 2020 🕰 11:53am ⚖️ 3.46kg / 7.6 pound 📏 50cm Little Massi is settling into life on the outside beautifully and is surrounded by so much love 💙
  • 😆🤪😤 Emotional Playdough 😤🤪😆 We had some emotional fun with our fun little puzzle and some play dough! After matching up the emotional faces to playing boards, Miss 3 and I created Playdough faces on our activity sheet, before making the faces ourselves! Loads of laughs were had while pulling the faces 😂 Please let me know if you would like our homemade play dough recipe or links to these resources 🙏 #learningemotions #learningemotionsthroughplay #emotions #teachingemotions #readingemotions #playbasedlearning #finemotorskills #socialskills #socialdevelopment #toddleractivities #toddlerplayidea #wetafternoonfun #homemadeplaydough #woodentoys #gettingreadyforkindy #emotionalintelligence #playideas #playdoughfun #playdoughplayactivities
  • 👻 Taste Safe Gloopy Slime 👻 Isn’t slime amazing for sensory play? Even at three years of age, I am still mindful of what I give Miss 3 to play with as she does still like to sample this and that. This slime recipe is completely taste safe- even could be healthy! Teamed up with some loose parts, we made ghosts, monsters, insects, dogs and fish before just getting messy 😆 We are happy to pass on the recipe if you would like it for your little ones 🙏 #playinspiredmum #slime #tastesafeslime #homemadeslime #sensoryplay #sensoryplayidea #sensoryplayforbabies #sensoryplayfortoddlers #messyplay #messyplayideas #playideas #lockdownplayideas #learningthroughplay #playtolearn #halloweenactivitiesforkids #halloweenactivities #ghostsandghouls #playtime
  • 🌈 Elastic Bands on Cans 🌈 We had twenty minutes to spare before school pick up and Miss 3 was bouncing off the walls, while my energy levels were nil 😆 A walk to the pantry and then to the stationary cupboard and 💥 boom- crisis averted! Miss 3 actually moaned and rolled her eyes when she saw me present her with the little bowl of elastic bands and the can - hello threenager! When I asked her if she could stretch the bands over the can, straight away her hands got busy working out how to manipulate the elastic band around the can. Within minutes she had them all lined up before taking them off so I could have a turn. Did I get to finish my turn? Nope! Apparently she knew how to do it better! 🙌 As simple as it was- this activity was a hit! I applauded her for giving it a go even though she didn’t think she would like it and she was so proud! #playinspiredmum #finemotorskills #learningthroughplay #playbasedlearning #simpleactivities #simpleactivity #playathome #toyfreefun #perthmum #perthmblogger #cans #elasticbands #playtolearn #learningathome #toddleractivity #toddlerplayidea #playideas #playideasfortoddler #playideasfortoddlers
  • 🌳 Tap the Magic Tree 🌳 If you have been searching for a book to discuss season or colours then ‘Tap the Magic Tree’ is an absolute MUST! Both Miss 3 and Miss 6 have loved borrowing this book from our local library. It has been read multiple times per day to the point where Miss 3 can recite the story by heart 💓 With fun little instructions such as tap the tree, run the tree and blow the leaves away, the story is interactive and engaging. We created this little extension activity using watercolours and some cotton tips to create our own little season cycle with the tree from the book as our main inspiration 🙌 The girls loved dotting the leaves, flowers and fruit onto their trees and guessing what would come next. #playinspiredmum #seasons #sciencewithkids #mathswithkids #weather #learningaboutweather #tapthemagictree #bookishplay #finemotorskills #finemotorskillsactivity #finemotorskillsactivities #learningathome #learningthroughplay #paintingwithkids #homeschooltoddler #rainydays #familytime #readingwithkids
  • 🌈 Letter R Writing & Watercolour 🌈 Miss 3 is showing more and more interest in reading at writing every day. Our lesson from ‘Playing Preschool’ involves us painting a beautiful ‘Rainbow R’. Miss 3 loved creating her rainbow, taking care not to go over the lines. To extend our conversations on words that start with an ‘Rr’, I gave her this handwriting guide to practise writing her ‘Rr’s’ with no pressure to comply. Miss 3 took so much pride in her efforts! Find links to both the printable handwriting guides (under printables) and ‘Playing Preschool’ on our resource page in bio 🙏 #playinspiredmum #letterrecognition #letterrecognitionactivity #handwritingguide #printables #toddlercurriculum #paintingwithtoddlers #watercolour #learningalphabet #letterwriting #playathome #learningathome #learningthroughplay #learningeveryday
  • 🦋 💙 Blue Hunt & Grouping 💙🦋 I sent Miss 3 on a blue hunt! She was running back and forth searching for all things blue! Once her basket was full we sorted by size and colour (slipped in a bit of phonic practise with some letters too) 💙 Another activity stemmed from ‘Playing Preschool’, a play based curriculum for toddlers and preschoolers 🙏💕 Grab the details on our resources page in bio or ask away below ⬇️🙌 #colourhunt #blue #earlymath #earlymaths #learningathome #toddlercurriculum #learningthroughplay #earlynumbersense #earlynumber #learningmadefun #colourrecognition
  • ⭐️ Play Dough ⭐️ With swollen feet that scream, yes there is less than two weeks before baby arrives, I was looking for an activity that involved sitting but could still really capture Miss 3s attention. Thank goodness for homemade play dough! Within a few minutes, I had a collection of textured wooden play dough tools and loose bits and pieces on the table. This kept us busy for close to an hour before school pick up 🙌 We made insects, fish, islands, towers, cookies and a scene from Miss 3s rainbow bus fairy dream last night 🧚‍♀️ Love these wooden stamps and textures rolling pins? I’ll link them on our resource page in bio. Tap the same link and search ‘play dough’ to find our homemade play dough recipe too! 🙏 #playdough #loosepartsplay #homemade #homemadeplaydough #sensoryplay #finemotoractivity #creativeplay #imaginativeplay #playathome #thirdtrimesterwithatoddler #playthedayaway #toddleractivity #loosepartsplay #looseparts #woodentoys
  • 🌈 🦋 Cotton Tip Butterfly 🦋🌈 Miss 3 took this paper plate painting activity very seriously. She loved using the cotton tip to decorate her beautiful rainbow butterfly’s wings 💕 Lots of fine motor work going on with this simple paper plate craft! #playinspiredmum #craftwithtoddlers #toddlercraft #toddlerart #createeveryday #finemotorskills #finemotoractivity #cottontipactivity #cottontippainting #toddlerlife #preschoolactivity #playathome #paintingwithkids #butterflycraft #perthmums #perthmumblogger #learningthroughplay
  • 🌈 🐠 Watercolour Rainbow Fish 🐠 🌈 We love The Rainbow Fish however it somehow made its way onto the back burner. Thankfully, a lesson in ‘Playing Preschool’ (play based toddler curriculum) has us revisiting this amazing book in one of the listed activities 🙌 It’s amazing how 6 months can have on comprehension! Miss 3 was really empathised with the characters compared to when we last read the book. I can’t even say how may times we have read The Rainbow Fish, in the last few days! She loves it! Anyways, we made our own rainbow fish! Using a quick hand drawn (please excuse my limited artistic abilities: Miss 3 didn’t seem to kind and I’m sure if you give it a go, your kiddly wink won’t judge either 😉😉) fish, some water colour paints and a few snips of aluminium foil, we recreated our own generous fun fish 💙🌈 If you would like more info on the ‘Playing Preschool’ curriculum, all the details are linked on our resource page in bio or feel free to ask away💕 #rainbowfish #therainbowfish #watercolour #toddlerart #toddlerpainting #createandlearn #toddler #toddlerplayideas #toddlerplay #learning #learningathome #playtolearn #bookishplay #bookishactivity #readingwithkids #literacy #prekindyathome
  • 🦆 Build a Duck Pond 🦆 It was such a lovely day today that we just had to set up some water play! I supplied Miss 3 with some loose parts, play tray and coloured water before setting the brief: Build Ducky a duck pond. It unexpectedly turned into sink vs float and translucent vs opaque experiment! I love how simple play ideas can really develop into deep, meaningful learning experiences! #playtolearn #learningthroughplay #playbasedlearning #playbased #waterplay #waterplaytime #spring #sensoryplay #sensoryplayideas #sensoryplayidea #sensoryplaytime #meaningfulplay #experientalplay #toddlerplayidea #preschoolplay #preschoolplayideas #playtray #looseparts #recycleandplay #recycleandreuse #loosepartsplay
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