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4 Creative Ways to Use Fabric Scraps in Small World Play

4 Creative Ways to Use Fabric Scraps in Small World Play

If you're reading this, you probably have a large bag of fabric scraps sitting somewhere. Instead of waiting for the next project, why not have some fun in the mean time? We don't often associate fabric scraps with play, but this next post will change your mind and get you all excited about creating ...

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My Family and Me Crochet Framed Photographs

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 ...

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Redefining Loose Parts: a Creative Outlook on Creative Play

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 ...

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A Beginner's Guide to Heuristic Play

A Beginner’s Guide to Heuristic Play

Heuristic play is one of those things we all know about but don't really know much about. So I did some research and wrote it down for you from A to Z in a sweet and simple way. Enjoy. A Beginner's Guide to Heuristic Play Most children love to explore. I know my little man is at his ...

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The Secret Life of Mom Blog Kids, A look behind the Scenes

The Secret Life of Mom Blog Kids, A look behind the Scenes

I started this blog just over 4 years ago, when we moved back to New Zealand after living in Australia for a year and I just had my second child. Life was good but this staying at home thing wasn't really working for me. I needed more, I needed a challenge, a creative outlet. So I opened an Etsy ...

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Top Tips for Encouraging Creative Play

Young children never cease to amaze me. I love how they move through life, seemingly uninhibited, and just have a plain old go at things. Their innate creativity shines through in all that they do. As parents it’s up to us to nurture that creative mindset and encouraging creative ...

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12 Ways to Tell a Story (and over 60 book activity ideas!)

Children's story books capture the essence of childhood, don't you agree? It's the snuggles on the couch, the repetitive rhymes, favorite characters and bedtime story rituals that we'll remember with such fondness years from now. We all have shelf somewhere full of children's books, but are we ...

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18 Activities that Encourage Creativity in Young Children

18 Activities that Encourage Creativity in Young Children

This week is the start of the first edition of The Big Creative Adventure, a free online event featuring diverse speakers who will be sharing their insights on how to encourage creativity within the family culture. I'm so excited. I'm a huge fan of creative play as you well know and since having ...

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How my Kids ruined my Craft Project

How my Kids ruined my Craft Project

Have you ever looked forward to doing a craft project with your kids? Are you familiar with that feeling of anticipation in the air? Part of the fun of craft projects is coming up with an idea, gathering your materials and waiting for that moment when you have actually have time to get stuck into ...

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How to get Back to Basics with Lego

How to get Back to Basics with LEGO

Why would we want to get back to basics with LEGO? I'll tell you why. Because of nostalgia. Let me tell you a little story ... I grew up playing with LEGO. My dad had this huge (well, huge to us) collection of LEGO blocks from his childhood days that my sister and I got to play with. We ...

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About Me

Hi and welcome! I'm Ann, Mom of three with a love for creating things. I adore imaginative play in action and I am always in the middle of 101 projects. If you can't find me, I'm probably hiding in the pantry eating chocolate! Have a look around and see what crazy exciting things we've been up to lately. Read More…

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