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Homemade Alphabet Sponge Letters: So much fun for the bath……. A great tactile and hands-on activity for kids to play with while taking a bath.

When wet, the sponges stick or suction slightly to the sides of the bath and tiles, making it a great canvas for creating endless ideas. Fine Motor with Tokens: A fun and colourful activity to promote fine motor development by placing each small token is carefully over the circles to colour the sea horse picture in. Create a Spring Play Dough Garden: Here is a great spring theme activity for the kids, creating a Spring Play Dough Garden.

The play dough has been scented with a herbal shampoo to smell like flowers and is textured with small coloured flower petals. It is a great activity for kids to explore their creativity and imagination as they create their very own spring garden. Kid Car Wash Tunnel: I truly believe that the simplest things bring the most fun! We have been making a homemade Car Wash Tunnel for the kids using simple items you will find around the house.

This is such a fantastic activity to do with toddlers, older babies and pre-schoolers to help build up gross motor skills and have lots of fun inside when it is raining outside. Rainb ow Salt Tray: Why would you need crayons, textas, pencils and paper to draw when you can have more fun with a Rainbow Salt Tray! Imaginative Play — Planting a Garden: Our Homemade Skittles would have to be one of the most played with toys in our house.

My girls are continuously finding new and fun things to do with them. With the weather warming up, I have been planning more activities to do with the kids outside and I thought these paint brushes would be perfect for textured painting on a large paper canvas fixed to the fence. We had so much fun playing with our Alphabet Play Dough! It is a fun activity to help kids learn their alphabet letters and build up their fine motor skills at the same time. Colourful Sensory Play with Jelly: Ooey, gooey, slushy and messy! A fun sensory experience playing with Rainbow Jelly. Making a name collage using pom poms is an activity that will help your child become interested in their name and the letters that make up their name.

Making painting fun using frozen paint on a pop stick. Create endless paintings as the paint melts! Exploring and playing with strawberry scented rice with all kinds of scoops, shovels and sifts. Washing a Toy Baby: Watching Mum and Dad washing a baby sibling is an example of an experience that children copy and re-enact.

Watching and learning from this experience then practising, imitating and experimenting this through imaginary play. Homemade Street Traffic Bath Sponges: This will keep the kids busy while having a bath as well as stimulating their imaginations and developing their storytelling skills. It is a great hands-on sensory play activity that promotes creativity, storytelling and the imagination.

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The bath tub is a great canvas for creating stories! A free printable too!

A cute little gift idea! Something so simple, fun and easy to make and you will find all the items you need around the home. S ensory Play Rice and Bottle Tops: Developing fine motor skills through sensory play with rainbow rice and bottle tops that will also inspire the imagination and creativity.

Exploring and playing with pipe cleaners and beads with the Styrofoam while exercising the fine motor muscles. There is so much fun to be had creating pretend cupcakes as kids have the freedom to explore the imaginary world. This is a great activity to introduce and sing the Pat-a-Cake nursery rhyme. We have a gorgeous book which comes with a CD that tells the story of the adventure of going on a bear hunt. My kids have played this CD over many times as I watch them pretend to walk through long, wavy grass and run away from a bear. So I thought I would bring this story to life some more by creating the different scenes in the book.

P illow Case Hoppers: This game is an oldie but a goodie replacing the hessian sacks with a pillow case……simple hours of fun! Kids love to get messy, it comes with being a kid as they explore their natural curiosity about the world around them. Paint Me is a cute and quirky activity that kids will enjoy making! I plan to use ours as keep sake to giggle at in years to come. It is a perfect snap shot of the size of your kids hands and feet to compare with when they get older. Play Dough and Cardboard Tubes: These Colourful Pattern Easter Eggs are a bright and colourful activity for the kids to do this Easter.

My kids get very excited when we play this game. The challenge and anticipation of searching for something brings so much fun to learning your alphabet letters!

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The Hide and Seek Letter Hunt involves hiding the letter pairs around the house and your child goes around finding them. What is Hiding in Our Jelly? Since our first play experience with jelly, my kids have been asking if we could do it again. This time I hid some items in the jelly for them to squeeze and squish through to find.

Great Places to Play at Home: There are so many wonderful places in the home where children can play imaginatively, creatively and get active indoors. Kids will create imaginary worlds to explore and play using the most inexpensive and simple things you can find right at home. Here are a few ideas for you to try! Pompoms and Mini Tongs: In the early years, we often hear discussions about the importance of fine motor and gross motor development in kids. Here is a great activity that is fun and exercises those little muscles to develop strength!

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Bottle Top Leaf Boats: What I love about winter is that there are lots of puddles to play in. Recently after days of rain and being stuck inside, we put our rain coats and gum boots on for a splash about in the puddles. An irresistibly yummy numeracy activity for kids!

So much learning happens when we cook with our kids. The social interactions, processing information, following directions, problem solving and coordination. A simple unstructured and fun sensory play idea using water, bubbles and bottle tops. It was wonderful to see the creativity, imagination and fun happen just by adding bottle tops and bubble bath to the tub. The Nursery Rhymes Box: The Nursery Rhyme Box is an activity developed to encourage and promote oral language development in young children.

It had been a while since we have pulled out the paints so I thought we would get them out to do a little finger painting and incorporate it with our theme of blackberries. We made some blackberries using purple and black paint and our fingers. It is always so much fun painting with our fingers! Sorting Coloured Match Sticks: Colourful Cellophane Sticky Art: Cellophane Sticky Art is a great activity to introduce kids to colours!!

I believe it is never too early to start learning about concepts such as colour and that through setting up opportunities to play and learn will begin the journey of developing an understanding.

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Play Dough — Bottle Tops and Straws: It is always fun to watch and see what kids will come up with when you give them simple props to promote play in an open-ended and unstructured way. Here I have set up our activity table with play dough, bottle tops and straws to inspire the imagination and creativity.

Travel to exciting places, meet fun characters, play games and win prizes as your monster learns the first steps of reading. Minigames help children to develop speed and accuracy of letter recognition. For young children in the first stages of learning to read; both those who are on track and those who need extra support and motivation. The series complements Phases of Letters and Sounds and other major systematic synthetic phonics programmes.

The series takes children on a journey through the graphemes; rehearsing recognition, blending and segmenting with each one. This is a fun and engaging way to help your child learn to read. My son warmed to the game quickly and didn't want to stop playing it! The kids absolutely love this game - and they're learning! Why is the computer version free? What age is it for? How do children learn from the game? Will it work on my device? Who are The Usborne Foundation?

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Lots of blending, segmenting and tricky words. Read for purpose with magical little books. A great way to help your children to learn to read. I was stunned to see how much they enjoyed this. It blew me away. Matt Lovegrove, Cippenham Primary School.