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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Washing Line Dangle: The Level Up

GOSH - If you're a new follower then scroll back and see how TINY August was when we first did this activity! Back then it was to support his reaching...

Making Music 🎼

We made a whole lot of noise today. We make a lot of noise every day. Shaker toys and noisy toys are a CONSTANT in our house - they're the...

Tea Party: Imaginative Play

You might have seen that we're all about having tea parties at the moment. It's not just an excuse for me to play with the wooden toy biscuits, I promise....

Fun with Mud

WHO IS BRAVE ENOUGH?! We stepped up the mess factor today and played in mud. EVERYTHING is washable so why hold back? We rugged up and headed to the deck...

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...

Camping by Torch light

August loved playing with the torch yesterday so I thought I'd set him up with a camp to shine it in. We can't both fit under the pikler triangle or...

They see me rollin'

We continued exploring the rotation schema this afternoon by rolling our ball-pit balls down the pikler ramp. I put the kinderboard at the bottom to catch them all. We're super...

Paint Balling

We got MESSY today whilst exploring the rotation schema. "Wtf is the rotation schema?!" I hear you scream silently at your phone. Well a 'schema' is a pattern of repeated...

We got these GORGEOUS wooden buttons from @navybabynz. Having multiples of anything is fantastic for counting, sorting, finding and posting - I love that these buttons are slim so that when August's...

Pop to the shops

Spot the mother that is having shopping withdrawals during lockdown 😬😬 Today I set up a shop for August. YES this is elaborate and I KNOW that most of you...

Exploring Hot and Cold

August explored the difference between 'hot' and 'cold' today out in the garden. I filled two plastic tubs - one with hot-ish water and the other with cold water and...

Freshwater Flowers

Reminder: It's okay for babies to eat flowers. They will be fine. This morning's sensory experience was all about flowers! We explored our property for flowers to cut and bring...

Ball Pit Rescue

August loved playing in the ball pit at the party yesterday but aside from naming colours and describing the properties and whereabouts of a sphere - the language opportunities are...

Pasta Post and Pull

We has a quick explore with some pasta this afternoon. August can't bear me cooking without him so he's forever on my hip helping out with all his meals. He...

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...

Taste-safe Slime

We did this activity at our baby class. I bought cornflour weeks ago to do this activity at home but I'm so glad I did it with teachers who had...

Puzzling Puzzle Box

I couldn't help myself - the box I brought my shopping home in was just BEGGING to be made into something. What better than a puzzling puzzle box?! This is...

Pom Pom Whisk

Exactly what it says on the tin! I filled a whisk with some colourful pom poms to spark August's interest. He'd never seen pom poms before so it was all...

Valentines Sticky Wall

We're getting into the spirit of love this morning. I had pondered whether or not to do this activity as I thought August might be too young for it. I...

Canvas Clean Painting

We haven't done any clean painting since August was tiny so it was time to revisit this activity. I had a big canvas lying around, but I'd recommend a smaller...