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.

A Community Approach to Raising Children
Raising children without a supportive “village” can feel overwhelming in today’s busy world. Discover why community matters and how Clamber Club’s baby and toddler classes help build bonds and support your child’s development.
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...
Tips for Teaching Puzzles
Does your toddler or preschooler have some puzzles lying around that he occasionally plays with? How often do you try to sit with him and encourage him to play with them? Many parents offer puzzles...
Citrus Sensory Necklace
Keeping our children occupied during these long unprecedented days at home calls for out-of- the-box ideas and creativity using things found lying around the house. Presenting the idea of making a...
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...
Learning through the Visual Sense
Understanding what we see and interpreting what we see is all part of learning. This week we look at how we learn through our eyes. Visual perception can be taught in so many ways, and if we know...
Learning Series – IN and OUT!
It is important for children to have a good understanding of different concepts as it assists in their ability to follow instructions. For a child to correctly use a concept in their spoken...
Learning Series – Heavy and light, sink and float
Learning about opposites teaches children vocabulary, deepens their understanding of the world around them, and helps them to compare different things. Opposites help children gain a concrete...
Learning Series – Learning our Shapes
Teaching children shapes is incredibly important! It promotes a range of skills including: Pre-reading and writing skills, communication skills, creative skills, sorting and classification skills,...
TOYS and PLAY from babies to pre-schoolers!
Children love toys, and the correct toys can help in our children’s development. Toys can help build creativity, imagination, gross motor, and fine motor skills and of course, can provide limitless...
Parenting in a Pandemic: Having grace for yourself is key!
Thoughts of 2020 and 2021 may be associated with anxiety, turbulence, and being thrown in the deep end without knowing how to swim. All the more so if you find yourself navigating how to parent...
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...
Best shoes for Babies and Toddlers
We South Africans have always been told how our grandparents walked to school barefoot until they reached high school age, and then only then could their hardworking parents eventually afford to buy...