It's all about the bugs in our family lately. The kids have been playing and exploring outside most days. And along with the sunshine, the bugs have started making an appearance as well. Everyone is full of questions and my boys would just love to see some of the bugs up close. Wanting to respond to ...
My Family and Me Crochet Framed Photographs
Children love looking at photographs of themselves and their family. It creates a sense of belonging and having family photographs around is a great way to keep memories alive. Since a lot of the images and videos we make are stored on our devices, our kids don't get to see them often. The first ...
How to Create a Stone Quarry Small World
If you can not walk, ride or drive past a digger without squeals and pleads to stop and watch for hours, this simple stone quarry small world is for you. Read along and see how you can put together a pretty amazing invitation to play and explore construction vehicles and rocks. Lots of rocks. ...
15 Creative Perler Beads Projects to try today!
I have come to the conclusion that Perler Beads are here to stay. I'm not a big fan to be honest. I don't like plastic to begin with, I don't know what to do with all the dinosaurs and unicorns my kids keep on making and I absolutely hate the mess they make when the box with beads tips over ... ...
Redefining Loose Parts: a Creative Outlook on Creative Play
Loose parts has taken the educational world by storm over the past few years. But what actually are loose parts and what aren't? Read on as we are redefining loose parts by going back to the basics, look at the Theory of Loose Parts, think beyond the mainstream perception of loose parts and ...
Modern & Contemporary Artist inspired Art Projects for Kids
Now that I've been visiting Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art museums at a fast pace since taking on a degree in Creative Therapy (Visual Arts), I decided to find out more about artist inspired art projects for kids. Now, let me tell you the internet does not disappoint! There are A LOT of ...
Fabric Wrapped Sculpture Art for Kids Inspired by Judith Scott
The story of Judith Scott and her beyond amazing textile sculptures is one you'll want to tell your art loving children. It's an inspirational story of a woman with Down syndrome that empowers people to find their own creative voice. This beautiful fabric wrapped sculpture art for kids activity ...
Make a Perler Bead Rainbow Fish for Pretend Play
The rainbow fish is an all time classic. This beautiful story about a gorgeous rainbow fish that discovers the joy of sharing has taken the world by storm. In our family the rainbow fish stories (and television episodes!) are a favourite with the toddler and preschooler crowd. We try to be creative ...
DIY LEGO Travel Tin for Building Fun on the Go
It's official, at the ripe age of four, Mr. T has moved right into the LEGO stage. Finally, I've been waiting for one of my children to really get into LEGO. I have such fond memories of my sister and I playing with my father's old LEGO collection for what seems days on end and I want my children to ...
Non Toy Play Kitchen Essentials every Family should have
The play kitchen is BY FAR the most popular toy in our home. It has been played with every single day for the past 7 years. In time we have gotten extremely good at improvising and coming up with new ways to keep things interesting in our play kitchen. Today I want to share with you our list of non ...