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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No rules when it comes to Creativity

No rules when it comes to Creativity

No agenda 🤌There doesn't need to be a learning agenda for our kids to be learning. If theyre playing - they're learning! We just have to embrace the mess and...
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School Holiday Activities: Invitation to play

School Holiday Activities: Invitation to play

No new toys ⬇️Kids can easily get bored with their toys because they see the same ones all the time. It’s like how we get tired of wearing the same...
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Super Activity: Gnome Quest

Super Activity: Gnome Quest

Super Activity ⬇️Had ZERO IDEA this was on in the school holidays but it was a happy accident that we ended up in the Gnome Quest today. We had been...
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School Holiday Activities: Washing Basketball

School Holiday Activities: Washing Basketball

Also good for👇• hand eye coordination• gross motor skills• collaborative play• social skillsSetting up throwing games can be such an amazing way for children to get out their big energy.Setting...
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School Holiday Activities: Measuring Monsters

School Holiday Activities: Measuring Monsters

Play is learning ⬇️Measuring might not sound cool or fun to us but for kids, understanding the sheer size of some of their favourite animals can be such a WOW...
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School Holiday Activities: Number Bounce

School Holiday Activities: Number Bounce

My kids are obsessed with numbers at the moment so we devised this game today.It’s great because you can modify it to meet each child’s needs.☀️my nearly 3 year old...
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School Holiday Activities: Lemonade Stand

School Holiday Activities: Lemonade Stand

Water play wins ⬇️Sick kids? Set this up.I set up this lemonade-stand play without fail when my kids are sick because it encourages them to drink more water!! Especially if...
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School Holiday Activities: Park Ranger Adventure

School Holiday Activities: Park Ranger Adventure

Plan for tomorrow ⬇️We're trying to spend more hours outdoors and often get trapped in the same routines of the same local parks.Today we lured the kids up into the...
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School Holiday Activities: Torchy Treasure Hunt

School Holiday Activities: Torchy Treasure Hunt

Try this ⬇️Kids love a treasure hunt and this is such a great way to make the most out of the darker winter evenings (or those dark rooms we've all...
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POV: You're not scared of messy play...

POV: You're not scared of messy play...

Cleaning hacks ⬇️⬇️I know that SO MANY OF US are loathed to do more messy play because we already have enough on our plates as parents and we don't want...
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Triggered by Mess?

Triggered by Mess?

Try THIS ⬇️If you're triggered by messy play, you're not alone. For many of us, chaos and disorder doesn't feel good in our own nervous system. Sometimes it's just who...
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18 month old milestones

18 month old milestones

Are milestones important? Milestones aren't everything. The world is a better place because everyone is different and on their own path - it's not feasible to suggest that EVERYONE should...
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Play Math

Play Math

It all adds up....There's a reason early childhood centres rotate the toys that are out and move them into different places regularl!Re-introducing and re-locating toys sparks a child's interest and...
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Support your Child's Scissor Skills

Support your Child's Scissor Skills

Easy hack for fine motor strength....Using scissors is one of those skills that is really helpful for kid's starting school - but did you know that scissor practice is also...
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DIY Car Wash

DIY Car Wash

Who's kid would LOVE this?!Tag a friend who's kid would go wild for this sort of play set up.🚘My kids are really into car wash play at the moment.🚓They pretend...
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Simple Play Idea: Dandelion Lions

Simple Play Idea: Dandelion Lions

Dandelions are EVERYWHERE at the moment and kids sure do give you a new appreciation for them. We love spotting their sunny, yellow heads when we're out and about, or...
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Play Ideas for around home

Play Ideas for around home

Play ideas.What I did at home all day with the (sick)2yo and the 4yo.Totally not spending hours coming up with elite play ideas - just moving the resources and getting...
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Normalising Body Talk with Children

Normalising Body Talk with Children

Bodies aren't taboo.Of course it's up to you how comfortable you feel talking to your child about bodily functions.My view is that bodies shouldn't be taboo, and that we should...
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Ready, Set, Go! Ramp Games for Language Development

Ready, Set, Go! Ramp Games for Language Development

Get your baby talking.👶Ramp games spark children’s interest because there’s so much anticipation!When will the ball drop?How fast will it roll?Where will it land?It’s the kind of thing they want...
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Easy Sensory Play Set-up

Easy Sensory Play Set-up

This kept them BUSY!!!!Providing hot AND cold temperatures an an extra sensory element for this water play really sparked my kids interest.I made the red water hot and the green...
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