In the past T and I have often themed our week of play as I find it helps me to be a bit more intentional and creative about how we spend our time together. Recently though, I haven’t been great at getting my act together and taking the time to plan ahead. However, after reading […]
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Brilliant Books: Usborne Listen and Learn First French Words
Recently we’ve been doing some France-themed play, and to support this, we got Usborne’s Listen and Learn First French Words from our local library.
Bienvenue sur Le Marché: French Market Role Play
As you may have seen if you follow me on Instagram, this week we’ve had a French theme to our play. One of my favourite things to do when in France is to visit the local market, so I decided to set up a simple market role play for T to play with. To set […]
Brilliant Books: There’s a Dinosaur in my Bathtub
I’m back with another ‘Brilliant Books’! This time I’m featuring a recent loan from our local library which has really appealed to T’s sense of humour. There’s a Dinosaur in my Bathtub is a whimsical tale about a girl named Amelia and the dinosaur who has come to stay for the summer. The book begins […]
A Tisket, A Tasket, Here is my Rhyming Basket!
One of the things we’ve enjoyed doing with T for a while is singing nursery rhymes and reading rhyming stories or kids poetry. Recently she has begun to notice rhyming words around her and to make up her own nonsense rhyming words, so off the back of this sudden interest, I decided to create a simple rhyming activity for […]
Brilliant Books: Bears in the Night
Hands up if you read this book as a child! My husband and I came across it at a jumble sale and we both had fond memories of enjoying it as kids, so we picked it up for T. A few months later we discovered another copy at my parents house! We really love this book […]
Simple café role play
One of my daughters favourite places to visit is a café – not a particular café, any one will do, so long as they have “a little treat” for her to munch on! And who can blame her?! Recently we had a couple of friends of hers over to play who I know also love […]
Brilliant Books: A Library Book for Bear
As I’ve said many times before, we love going to the library and are very lucky to have one just at the end of our road, which we can visit regularly. While there are always going to be the books T begs me to read which I wish had never been written (a certain Princess […]
Make Your Own Storytelling Puppets
Recently, we went to see The Tiger Who Came to Tea at the theatre. T already loved this story but this added a new dimension. After seeing our (frankly brilliant) tiger impressions, T’s auntie suggested we should put on a show of our own – and I decided that is exactly what we would do! […]
Top Toys: 10 ways to play with picture tiles
Welcome back to my Top Toys series! Today I’m looking at picture tiles. I love our picture tiles! We found these ones from Hape which T loves. They are ideal from around 18 months onwards – I envision that we will still be using these aged seven and perhaps even beyond! Here are my ten […]