Gardening with children can help to encourage a connection with the senses and a love of nature while also providing many opportunities to learn new […]
Gardening with Children – Make a Sensory Plant Tower!
Category: sustainability
Repurpose spools and reels for play!
I love finding inspiration and new ideas to repurpose wooden spools and cable reels into new equipment for play. They are a material that with […]
Taking Dramatic Play Outside – Ideas to get you started!
The outdoor learning environment offers a wonderful stage to inspire little imaginations through dramatic play outside. By adding a few simple props from either indoors or the yard itself and […]
Make a Recycled Plant Pot Scarecrow
As both a parent and educator I love finding ways to plan and create children’s recycling projects and our plant pot scarecrow was a whole […]
Sustainability in the Garden – How to Make a Worm Tower!
I’ve recently been exploring worm towers as a different way to involve the children in composting organic matter and also learning how to use the compost they […]
Sustainability – How can Early Years Educators show evidence of embedded practice?
The Australian Early Years Framework (EYLF) and indeed most early years frameworks across the international early childhood community asks educators to incorporate sustainable practice into […]
Recycling with children – easy ideas to get them involved!
We all know that recycling is important for our community and world as a whole and most adults now contribute in some way to the […]
A Week of Play Based Learning – Ideas, Activities and Inspiration
Welcome to a new year of my weekly play based learning posts. It is my aim to inspire, support and encourage both parents and educators […]
Recycling Fun with Rubbish and Pallets!
You know we love to make play resources from recycled pallets and this one has been on my list for quite some time. Well if […]
Children’s Cardboard X-ray ‘Tablet’
October is Doc-Tober for Disney Junior! Your preschooler can see Doc McStuffins and her toy friends in new episodes on the Disney Junior TV channel […]