Recently we have been working on skills to help Buddy feed himself with a spoon by incorporating scooping and dumping activities into our play. This will (hopefully) help him to master those tricky fine motor skills he needs to scoop up food, hold the spoon steady and direct it towards his mouth. I love to…
Buddy is an absolute pro at feeding himself with his hands and we are fortunate that he is not a fussy eater. His spoon control is however somewhat lacking. To help him to improve on this we have been doing lots of activities that require him to scoop and dump. This will (hopefully) help him…
It is always a fun personal challenge to find ways for Buddy to get involved with lots of the activities we see online shared by other bloggers due to Buddy’s incessant need to taste everything we play with. (He is getting a little better now he is getting older.) There have been some amazing Autumn…
I’m totally embracing the changing seasons this year and I have been itching to try new sensory plays with Buddy that incorporate the Autumn theme. Fortunately we had some spaghetti left over from our Rainbow Spaghetti Play that looked like the perfect base for an Autumnal Sensory Discovery Bin. How we made our Autumn Fall…
Autumn is fast approaching and my Pinterest has become inundated with fantastic seasonal crafts and activities that I am desperate to try. Unfortunately, Buddy is just too young and taste happy for many of them. However, as always, we found a Buddy safe alternative. Today we have been discovering Autumn/Fall colours with his ball pit.…
Buddy is a fiddler! He loves to touch, feel, open, close, lift and climb. Pretty much a normal toddler then! One of his favourite things to play with is baby wipes. He likes opening and closing the lid (and eating the wipes…) So when I saw this brilliant play on Pinterest from Jenae at I…
I have a confession to make. This is really hard for me to say and I don’t know how to sugar coat it, so I’m just going to come out and say it. I can’t sew. I know some crafty bloggers will have stumbled to the floor amidst a sea of felt, pipe cleaners and…
We had lots of fun discovering flour this week. I have wanted to see what Buddy would do if he was let loose with flour for some time and I finally got my answer! Setting up Play This play is so easy to set up. I used our big sensory bin and tipped the flour…
After having fun with our Edible miniature Water Beads we pulled out our other new experiment, creatively dubbed Large Edible Water Beads. This idea was suggested to me by the lovely Multicraftingmummy via twitter. I was quite excited about it and ordered the ingredients as soon as possible! I decided to do this one as…
Whenever Buddy and I have fun with a messy activity, I like to have a water activity set up too. This naturally extends our play time and it means I get get him cleaned up without any protest – that’s a bonus on both counts! After we had fun with our paper plate painting with…
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