Learning through Play

The home of easy to set up play ideas! Browse a range of activities that are simple to create and often use the stuff you already have lying around your house! These activities are all created with communication development in mind, so be sure to join in with your little one and foster some conversation.

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Easy way to keep your baby busy

Tummy time WIN.The more time our little ones spend on the floor completely free to move their bodies, the better.It can be tempting to want to plonk them into their...

Indoor Camping

Here's a gentle reminder to pitch a tent indoors! Especially if you're not a camping person (like me!). Kids love enclosed spaces - even when it's not all that enclosed...

Dolls are for everyone

If you think dolls are just for girls then you’re very sadly mistaken. Men care for babies. Men are dads. Men teach children. Men work in kindergartens. Men are nurses....

Exploring Colours: Red Bath

Bath time is a great time to explore colours. I had some beetroot juice left over from our summer soup activity so I added it to August's bath for something...

Take some of the parts and take a turn

There's no shame in being taught how to play with your child. We all grow up, and as most of us don't go on to work with children, it's easy...

Blow your own bubbles

Ok the secret is out, I absolutely HATE bubble machines! I'd hazard a guess that there's not one Speech and Language Therapist who would use one - they're fresh out...

Rainbow Pasta Sensory Bin

Some sensory experiences take a big set up and clean up and I wanted a few that were easy to access and drama free. I bought two of these big...

Foam Home

Errr - if you put bubble bath and water into the blender it makes foam 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ Again - we had to mostly play indoors today otherwise I would have done...

Rice Rummage

An EASY messy play experience. I put some rice into an oven tray, added some everyday items like cups and spoons and let August go to town. I taped the...

Flower Forage Sensory Bag

We had SO MUCH FUN today exploring our friend's beautiful garden. This was a two part activity that kept us busy for the afternoon - who doesn't love exploring a...

Recycled Rattle

I've wanted to make this for SO LONG! It takes a while to save lids and steal lids from other mums! August and I went to the OPAVIVARÁ! exhibition at...

Magic Ball Box

Put a ball in the top and it shoots out the side. Doesn't that sound like magic for a child?! So easy. What you'll need: 📦a box. I used a...

Mirror Mirror on the floor

This morning I put our cheap mirror on the floor and scattered some coloured items across it for August to discover. He'd bore of these items quickly if they were...

💚 Green Bath 💚

We discovered green this afternoon. SO much more fun than looking at the colour green in a book! I found as many green, waterproof things as I could. Here we...

Glitter Tornado Sensory Bottle

I could play with this all day. I probably would if I didn't have to parent. This is the lava lamp I never had as a kid in the 90s....

Destruction

I'd started stacking random things for August (whilst singing some strange building song from a TV show from my childhood) and I noticed that he was loving knocking everything down!...

Edible Baby Slime

Because they're already making a bloody mess - why not add to it?! We first tried this on August's play mat outside but we were both too messy to take...

Bang Bang Bowl

August absolutely loves a metal bowl. It's all about taking things out of a container these days, and if that container is shiny and makes a loud noise when you...

Baby Ball Pit

I rarely 'sit' August to play because tummy time is too important to help him to learn to get HIMSELF into a sitting position, but I broke the rules today...

Ice Sensory Bag (ice ice baby)

It couldn't be any easier. I put some ice in a ziplock bag and gave it to August. It was a brilliant opportunity to talk about things feeling cold -...