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 […]
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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 […]
Top Toys for 3-7’s this Christmas
It’s so easy to get stuck trying to think of ideas for your children at Christmas. While enjoyment is obviously the key thing I’m looking for when finding gifts for T, I do have a few other criteria… Longevity. Most of the toys T has received since her first birthday are things that will last. […]
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 […]
Brilliant Books: My Body Book by Mick Manning and Brita Granström
The human body – a weird and wonderful thing! Recently T has become very interested in her body and how it works. We’ve been doing a few related activities but I wanted to find a couple of books from the library which would enable me to discuss a bit more with her. There are quite […]
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 […]
5…4…3…2…1…We have lift off!
This week we have been doing some play based on Space! T has become interested in rockets recently and so I thought we would do a few things stemming from that. It doesn’t feel like we’ve had a whole load of time so I think we will probably continue with the theme over next week, […]
6 Roarsome Dinosaur Activities
This week we have been doing lots of dinosaur activities! T was given a lovely set of dinosaurs for Christmas and often gets them out to play with them. Since she enjoys playing with them so frequently I thought we’d make the most of it and have a dinosaur themed week! 1. Small World Play The first activity […]