A collection of simple activities to lead your child into their own unique world of creativity and deep imaginative play.
This is just a simple invitation to explore, get playful and curious about relatively familiar everyday items from the natural world. It’s also an opportunity to practice some literacy skills outdoors! You will need: container for water found objects clipboard (optional) pencil (optional) All we are going to do is fill a basin or large … Read more
You will need: 3 long sticks/stakes wire or twine (to secure stakes) a bed sheet or tarp clothes pegs (to secure sheet) Exactly the same way you built the tiny tipi you can build a tipi that you can fit inside!
Now that you have built some different kinds of dens do you think you can make a home for some of your friends? Do you have some stuffed animals or maybe some animal figures you could bring out into the yard to play with? Where might they like to live? Do they need a big … Read more
Get your sticks find a tea towel & some ropes and head out into the back yard. We are making mini tarps for our stuffed animal friends with the always wonderful Lee Cook.
An Invitation to Create We’re going to make some decorations for our backyard tea party! You can make decorations to hang from trees or maybe in your yard it would be better to make a garland. For a garland you will need: Long piece of thick string strips of fabric ribbons (optional) Attach the strips … Read more
This is a collection of a few ideas I’ve seen around the net. Hanging balloons to paint is in and of itself a unique, simple and super fun idea! The second piece of string securing the balloons to the ground came from Meredith at Homegrown Friends and the bird cage came from Piika Street melded … Read more
Is there somewhere special in your yard where you can have a tea party? Who might you want to come to your party? Would you decorate? Set a table? Put out a blanket? Let’s make a very special place in your yard where you will host your party. Can you gather some things? picnic/outdoor blanket … Read more
Spring is about to burst into blossom and bloom downtown here where I live. The city streets are full of buds and blossoms are beginning to emerge. Warmth is in the air and jackets are scattered in the yard. Seems the perfect time of year to begin collecting colourful treasures to play and create with. … Read more
Would you like to learn how to make a very easy house for your rabbit or a fairy out of sticks? You will need: 3 or more straight sticks of the same length A pipe cleaner or two Extra things to decorate your house First let’s practice wrapping. Hold out your two fingers and wrap the … Read more
There are lots of ways to make a nature journal and reasons why you should. You will need: I made nature journals out of box flaps but this led to very irregular and randomly sized journals which meant I couldn’t cut one size of paper and that I wasted a lot of paper trying to … Read more