Snakes and Ladders

We went to the Snakes and Ladders park at Farm Cove last weekend. Fun! The wooden posts are the "squares" on the "board". They are numbered and you move the number of squares spun on the dice wheel at the bottom. If you land by a ladder, you climb it, and if you end up in front of a "snake" you slide down, just like in the game, but in real life. Max loved it, even if he didn't quite get the concept fully. It went something like this: "How many now, Mummy?" "Five" He'd walk one post and again call out "How many now, Daddy?" Cute.

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Simple joy

hammer + nails + rubber bands = happy 3 year old

Age Poems

Thank you Megan at mousehouse for the idea :)

Rainbow Rice

I used glutinous (sticky) rice, as it's a lot whiter than standard varieties, but I'm sure anything'll work. I put the rice into baby food jars, added food colouring and hand sanitiser (as it evaporates) and we shook shook shook the jars until it was all mixed up. We wanted to use them right away, so I put them in a warm oven (100 deg C) for about 15 mins until they were dry. I'm sure you could also spread the rice out on multiple trays somewhere to dry.

For the pictures, I taped sticky clear bookcover film upside down on the table for Max to design his picture, and once finished, backed with heavy paper. FUN FUN FUN!

I also used the rice to make a shaker toy for Finn.

Food dropper colour mixing

This was our busy hands activity yesterday - mixing colours using food droppers. I got this idea from Itty Bitty Love and it worked out wonderfully. 

I filled dropper bottles with diluted red, blue and yellow food colouring and laminated sheets with dots (made from paint colour charts) - one with three large circles (primary colours) and another with twelve (primary, secondary and tertiary colour wheel).

Max put 1 drop of matching colour on each dot, mixed with a toothpick and placed a paper towel on top. Voila! A spectrum of colours!

Dinosaur Excavation

This was a hit with Max, who still talks about it time and time again - "saving" dinosaurs frozen into layers of coloured ice. He loves banging with the hammer, even more so breaking things with a hammer, and "rescuing", well, that's his favourite thing of all time!

Explore, Discover, Learn, Love

There are so many things that I do or make or discover or learn, alone or with the little ones, that I want to share: pictures, activities, patterns, things. 

This is a collection of some of them.