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Chinese New Year Dragon Marionette

By Pauline On January 18, 2012 · 9 Comments · In Activities for Children, Creative Play, Play, Pre school, Wet Weather
  Food, large family gatherings, fire-crackers, more food, red money packets, new clothes, new haircut, more food and of course lion or dragon dancing accompanied by ostentatiously loud festive drums. Chinese New Year. Families gather. Bright colours are everywhere. The food is unbelievably good and bountiful. Being Chinese has its perks.   This year (2012), [...]
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paint it: let the good times roll with dinosaurs

By Pauline On November 22, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Activities for Children, Creative Play, Fine Motor Skills, Kids Arts and Crafts, Messy Play, Play, Pre school, Preschool, Wet Weather
Paint it! That was Day 20’s Challenge from the 30 days to Hands on Play hosted by the Imagination Tree & Hands On: As We Grow. Here’s how we played. We started with some marbles, paint, baking trays and coloured paper.  N & M have not tried rolling ball art before. I did a quick [...]
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Fort with Fairy Lights

By Pauline On November 10, 2011 · 19 Comments · In Activities for Children, Creative Play, Play, Pre school, Toddler Activities, Wet Weather
  We finally took on Day 2’s Challenge: Build A Fort from the 30 days to Hands on Play challenge hosted by the Imagination Tree & Hands on: As We Grow.     Fort with Fairy Lights   N&M  just got their new beds on the weekend. It was such a great structure for our [...]
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kiddy DIY super cute crayons

By Pauline On October 28, 2011 · 7 Comments · In Activities for Children, Creative Play, Kids Arts and Crafts, Play, Pre school, Preschool, Wet Weather
Ever since our melted crayon art, N & M have been asking to melt crayons every couple of days. We finally melted crayons again this week, but instead of melting crayons onto a piece of paper, I thought we’d try melting crayons into some silicone moulds. We broke up some crayons  and placed them into [...]
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