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!
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...
Homemade Puffy Paint Recipe
I have three children of various ages and all my children love being creative and busy. When I came across this amazing recipe it kept my two younger children busy for hours. It was so much fun...
How to doodle!
I know that this is an obvious idea and probably everyone has doodled before, but sometimes we still have no idea what to doodle and even doodling can become a difficult task. What are the...
The Importance of Imaginary Play and how it equips our Children for Jobs of the Future
From around 14 months of age, you will notice that your toddler is starting to imitate roles that they see play out in your home. For example, while you are feeding them, they also want a spoon and...
Learning Series – Matching our Colours … and learning the rules of the road!
Learning our colours is a right of passage and something we all teach our children from a young age. Toddlers learn their colours best when learning through association. The green apple, the red...
Homemade bath crayons
Bath time is one of our favourite activities at home. Any time there is any kind of water, be it the swimming pool or the dogs water bowl, my daughter is drawn to it and just wants to play in it. We...
5 Easy sensory activities to do at home
Here are 5 Easy Sensory Activities when you have a rainy day, or would like to do something different with your Toddler. I have used ‘’ingredients’’ that will be easily found around the house and...
The Learning Series: Colours
It’s a wrap! Make your own wrapping paper and learn about colours at the same time. There are so many creative ways to teach your child about colours. Painting and printing is such fun, and making a...
Learning Series – Number concept – Bath time fun
Who would have thought that bath time could be used to teach number concept? Water based games can teach your little one all about volume, weight, and the concept of full and empty. Here’s how to...
Nursery Rhymes – are these antiques a thing of the past?
Surely, with how the world we live in is changing, and with all of our technological advances, something as old fashioned as nursery rhymes should be a thing of the past? Toddlers now have access...
Salt dough ornaments
I have always enjoyed making these with my kids, and now that my daughter is 7 and reading, I found it top be such a wonderful experience with her! Vivienne could read out and measure the...
Creative play: Tower building made simple!
During our creative play week at Clamber Club we incorporated a very cool idea which is easy enough for you to let your little ones experiment with at home. Not only does it encourage a child’s...
Decorate your own party cups!
About 18 months ago, I was planning my son’s insect-themed 2nd birthday party. I had the insect-themed cake, the insect-themed party favours, and enough plastic insects to decorate the amazon rain...
Mini doughnuts
Have you ever done any baking with your toddler in the kitchen? Not too keen on the mess? Or having to clean it all up yourself and end up doing it all yourself? Baking with your little one can...
Colourful Fun with Sensory Rice
We all love buying and receiving new toys for our babies. But have your ever noticed how the wrapping paper, box or plastic is usually far more entertaining than the contents themselves? I’m not...
5 Fun holiday activities
After being through long holidays with bored children in the past, I decided to do some research on activities to do with them that stimulates the senses as well as keep them busy for more than 2...