Well, the best laid plans, and all that! I’d intended to post every day for 30 days, sharing our #30dayswild journey, but yeah, life happens, doesn’t it. Never mind, new…Continue Reading →
Our first ‘theme’ for the new academic year – such as it is for those of us who learn at…
We’re nearing the end of our Feelings and Emotions activities, and this particular activity took some planning and a bit…
On the theme of Feelings and Emotions, a fun, easy and cheap game to put together for the kids is one we’ve called Paper Plate Feelings Charades, but it can…Continue Reading →
I have a whole drawer full of printed games and puzzles and activities that I can pull out whenever we…
A few weeks ago I was chatting with a new friend, Donna Jones Mbe. Donna worked with ‘at risk’ and vulnerable…
This week, on Roald Dahl’s 100th birthday, we combined Matilda’s boats and our feelings and emotions themes and made paper boats, which we set free on the ocean. I’ve always…Continue Reading →
Carrying on with our emotions and feelings theme, we made balloon-stress balls with faces on them for the different major…
I really enjoy game cubes – I’ve made a few of them over the course of parenting, like this activity…
We’re talking about feelings and emotions at the moment, because both seem to be running high with my four-going-on-fourteen and six-going-on-sixteen year olds. Sometimes its hard to know what really…Continue Reading →