Blogs

Why play dough? 10 reasons why playdough is the best ‘toy’ you can give your child.   Hi everyone I’m Darryl from @bodkinandroo  I was an Early Years teacher for 15 years and now I’m a stay-at-home mummy running my own business creating sensory playdough kits in the wee hours!   Playdough is an incredible resource and, whether home-made or shop bought, is one of […]

Our way of managing tantrums – By Sophie David, Little Happy Learners  Having three kids under five you can bet that we have experienced our fair share of toddler tantrums. We have been through some rough months, where tantrums have happened 3/4 times a day and we’ve been so out of our depth that we

Are we giving our kids equal play?  Cars and dolls, diggers and prams, children’s toy preferences do seem to fall out down gender lines. Kirstie Beaven finds that our own prejudices might be getting in the way.   Just before my daughter turned one, someone asked what she’d like as a present. I didn’t have much

Bringing Books Alive with Bookish Play I’m a Mum of four boys and a former Primary School teacher. Instilling a love of literature in my students and now children is a goal of mine for many reasons. Fostering a love of reading provides children with a framework or background knowledge to inform and make sense

You know that feeling when you’re at the checkout in a shop, you’ve paid but not got the card back in your bag, then in the corner of your eye you see the cashier reach for the next person’s items, they bleep it through and those items start coming through the till and you go

Author bio Abbie and Alice are former teachers, now mums and owners of Play Makes Sense. They create and sell sensory play phonics activity cards to empower parents to teach their children to read and write through sensory play. All the activities on the cards are quick and simple for parents to set up and

Are you doing these 4 things to help your child get their best sleep? In my work as a sleep consultant the most common request I get is from mums struggling to create healthy sleep habits with their babies. And no wonder. Sleep deprivation can leave you feeling exhausted, impatient, emotional, and overwhelmed, and can

Communication Milestones: Birth to 4 years Milestones at Birth to 3 months Will startle to sounds Begins to smile Lots of cooing Milestones at 4 to 6 months Turn to sounds Begins to pay attention to music Continues cooing but will also begin to babble (babble is more speech-like with consonant and vowel combinations e.g.

Hi! I’m Susie Robbins, from Resolve to Play. I am passionate about all things play, but mostly about making play accessible to everyone. This means that I champion the style of play that is affordable in terms of both money and time. Play should be fun for everybody involved, in fact it is a hard