Barefoot play is more than just fun—it’s essential for childhood development. Without shoes, kids improve their balance, coordination, and sensory awareness. From feeling cool grass to exploring textures, going barefoot encourages natural movement and healthy growth.

Fun Holiday Activities to Keep Kids Busy
Looking for fun ways to keep your kids entertained this holiday season? From creative crafts to sensory play and interactive movement, these engaging activities are perfect for bonding and supporting your child’s development.
Create Adorable Holiday Keepsakes with Mistletoe Feet and Reindeer Hands!
The holiday season is here, bringing the perfect opportunity to create joy with festive handprint and footprint crafts! From mistletoe feet to reindeer hands, these simple and fun DIY projects result in charming keepsakes or heartfelt gifts, capturing your child’s growth and creativity while fostering family bonding. Break out the paint and enjoy a season of laughter, memories, and handmade treasures!
Kids love Cardboard Boxes
Why do children often prefer the box a gift comes in over the gift itself? As adults, we see the box as mere packaging. To a child, it’s a blank canvas limited only by their imagination.
Exploring the Benefits of Bilateral Integration
Did you know that your pre-schooler possesses an amazing talent for coordinating both sides of their body? This skill, known as bilateral integration, is crucial for their early development as it helps improve motor skills, coordination, and overall functionality.
Optimised Learning
The building blocks for Learning It is increasingly evident that more and more children experience difficulty coping with the demands that a day at school brings. There are a number of possibilities...
The importance of active play in young children
Active play is such an important part of preschool children’s lives, as it builds up their self-confidence and it increases their emotional well-being, physically, socially, emotionally, and...
Visual fun and games
Visual perception activities can help a child to make sense of the information that the eyes are sending to the brain. Having good visual perception skills can therefore help prepare your child for...
Active play at home
With our new way of living in these Covid times, we often need to keep our children active, especially as we are required to stay at home and socially distance. Here are some Clamber Club...
Top Tips for Play
What are your top play tips? With so much information on play and so little time, I hope that some of these tips will help to ease the load in our ‘perfect parenting’ world. Sometimes it is good...
Ditch the shoes – barefoot is better!
“Aren’t those little shoes absolutely adorable?” are words all moms have uttered while shopping for clothes for their little ones. But does the adorable completion of an outfit outweigh the...
Keep your Play Gym Interesting
A play gym is a piece of equipment that every baby needs. Play gyms are incredible not only for entertaining baby, but for stimulating their visual, auditory, and tactile senses, as well as working...
Making your own obstacle course at home
Helping children stay physically active is essential to promoting healthy habits that last a lifetime. The aim is to keep the activities fun so young children can figure it out on their own. Outdoor...
Learning Series – Can you pretend you’re an ANIMAL?
Did you now that pretending to be different animals and moving like animals helps to develop imagination, visualisation, creativity and … body awareness! Why not play these simple games with your...
Learning Series – Body Art
There are so many fun ways to teach body awareness. Children learn about their bodies through movement, touch and the visual and auditory senses. This game is all about naming body parts and getting...
The Busy Mom’s Guide to Staying Fit
For nine months we carry a wonderful miracle and after the birth we live in a bubble of euphoria, staring in awe at the beautiful bundle of joy we’ve created. But, as the euphoria fades and reality...
Getting active with movement dice
This is a fantastic, stimulating, fun and educational activity that you can do this holiday with your children. To download the movement dice click on this link to our google drive account -...
Its PLAY time!
We hear time and again how critical play is for the healthy development of our children. Play enables children to learn through their senses, to develop their motor skills and to activate their...