by creative | Apr 16, 2014 | Age, Blog, Creative Invitations, Imaginative, Play, Pre-schoolers, School Age
We’ve been busy making some more miniature houses. Our light up miniature houses (which you can see here) have been such a hit, so it was time to make a few more to add to our collection. This time we used plastic Easter eggs for the roof of each house and the...
by creative | Mar 18, 2014 | Age, Blog, Imaginative, Play, Pre-schoolers, School Age, Small World Play
Inspired by our recently created light up miniature houses (which you can read about here), my girls decided to create kinetic sand fairy lands. These small worlds led to some of the sweetest stories, packed with fairy adventures, including fairies sinking in sand!...
by creative | Mar 13, 2014 | Age, Art, Blog, Creative Invitations, Imaginative, Play, Pre-schoolers, School Age
With Easter in my children’s thoughts, it was time to bring out our plastic egg collection and get creative. Miss Seven suggested we transform our eggs into people and all sorts of characters. We gathered some art and craft supplies and put on our creative...
by creative | Mar 9, 2014 | Age, Blog, Imaginative, Play, Pre-schoolers, School Age, Small World Play
This latest creation was inspired by Miss Three’s love of playing with fairies. Miss Three wanted to”make a special fairy house” so I created a canvas, in the form of a miniature house for each of my children to paint, decorate and then transform...
by creative | Jan 19, 2014 | Age, Art, Blog, Creative Invitations, Imaginative, Play, Playdough, Pre-schoolers, School Age, Small World Play
The possibilities with play dough are unlimited. To “mix it up” when it comes to creating with play dough, we combine play dough with other resources to inspire creative thinking. Recently we have gone back to one of our favourite combinations –...
by creative | Jan 11, 2014 | Age, Art, Blog, Imaginative, Painting, Play, Playdough, Pre-schoolers, School Age, Toddlers
With the new school year looming we are about to get an influx of shoe boxes as we buy some more school shoes for the year. l love adding shoe boxes to our collection of recycled bits and pieces as they can be used for all sorts of art and play experiences. Here are...
