communication language and literacy

Celebrating Roald Dahl day is always something I look forward to after the school holidays. Here are some of our ideas from last year, why not give them a try?! If you’d like more information about Roald Dahl day (13th September)

Its not very often that Childminders receive funding. All the equipment I have has been purchased from my own pocket and I still feel like there is so much I am missing. So when my local council gave out some new

I love simple activities, they take less prior planning and have the potential to be lots more fun! A great acitivity escepecially for under twos is this one. We did this on Sunday and little man enjoyed spending half an hour playing

Tonight we tried a design I was hoping to use for our Christmas cards , I think we may need a little more practice as little man kept wanting to curl his hand up but we sort of got there in

P absolutely Loves this book, after reading it to her tonight after tea P wanted to make her own caterpillar. I have been saving up my junk modelling materials to make some goodies with the children for The Play Academy‘s theme

This afternoon we got out some blue spaghetti for the little ones to play with. The children loved squashing the spaghetti in between their fingers and stacking on top of each others hands. Yes i know this activity looks messy but

The primary reason for starting the Monkeying Around blog was to encourage me to do creative activities with my children and to share the fun with others. This month we have been experimenting with food play including pasta necklaces and soggy