Laundry Basket Threading

If you have any ribbons, shoelaces or pieces of fabric and a laundry basket like ours, practice those fine motor skills, create patterns and make your basket look really cute!

Nature Play: Leaf Threading

Let’s do some leaf threading! A lovely way to practice those fine motor skills, while noticing the differences and similarities in your leaf collection 🌿🍃

Sticks: Banging Sticks

Let’s make some noise with Jess and her cute kittens! Let’s bang our sticks to different objects and see what sound they make! You could also take out your pots and pans and do some drumming!

Spoons: Exploring size, texture, materials

It all started with a spoon.. In this video we explore the importance of some day-to-day objects that live in our kitchens and the learning opportunities that come when they become fanastic toys for babies or toddlers.

Nature Play: Nature Weaving

Have you tried nature weaving? If you collect some sticks, leaves, some little cherries (if you find some), follow Ian’s instructions and see what you can come up with!

Milk Bottle Posting and Pulling Toy

Make a DIY posting and pulling toy from an empty milk bottle for your baby! Just cut some holes in an empty milk bottle, big enough for your little one’s hand to fit through, and let them drop in bottle tops for a bit of posting fun, or fill it up with scarves, socks, or […]

Water Play with Empty Milk Bottles

Empty milk cartons make great containers for scooping and pouring if you cut them on an angle like this! Use them to scoop and pour with water, or lentils, or sand, or whatever else your little one likes to explore!

Boxes: Make Your Own Ribbon Pull Toy

This is great activity to help build your baby’s fine motor skills. It might be tricky for them to pull on the ribbons at first, but you can show them how!

Cardboard Tubes: Threading

How about making your own very large and easy to handle beads, which you can decorate with scrap paper, from cardboard tubes and toilet roll! Simona is also using a string/shoelace to make herself a lovely necklace. This is great fine motor skills practice, so give it a go!

Laundry Basket Threading

Nature Play: Leaf Threading

Sticks: Banging Sticks

Spoons: Exploring size, texture, materials

Nature Play: Nature Weaving

Milk Bottle Posting and Pulling Toy

Water Play with Empty Milk Bottles

Boxes: Make Your Own Ribbon Pull Toy

Cardboard Tubes: Threading

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