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Design and make your own zoo playmat! The latest post in our #easyplayidea series - using simple resources found at home, re-create these easy play invitations for your children to make and play | you clever monkey

Tinkering is about playing, exploring, experimenting and setting imaginations on fire! Build a tinker space and ignite a passion for learning.

Why Morning Invitations? I started them because my children are early risers and I am sooo not a morning person. Morning invitations allowed us to: Start our morning slowly Start our morning quietly-ish Start our morning creatively (and often bookishly) What is a Morning Invitation So this slow, quiet, creative, bookish morning sounds nice, but […]

Creating An Invitation To Play | 5 Benefits - Arrows & Applesauce

With Valentine's day just around the corner the Book Robot in Love written by by T.L. McBeth is a great book to read followed by a STEM Invitation with Loose Parts. The heartwarming story is about a robot who creates gifts for another robot that he falls in love with. After reading the story, you can integrate the literacy experience with a STEM invitation to build a Robot with Picasso Tiles and Loose Parts. You will need the PicassoTiles® 100 Piece Set Magnet Building Tiles.PicassoTiles®…

Are your students interested in emojis? Mine are obsessed! We stumbled upon this interest after setting out some loose parts for the children to explore in the first few weeks of school. One studen…

Are you following us on Pinterest? Here is a fun sensory Invitation to Play with coloured water and recycled packaging that encourages skills such as fine-motor, pouring, transferring and scooping whilst investigating size, colours, colour mixing, depth, capacity, speed and more. We had so much fun with our inside water play that I wanted to create a similar invitation to play but this time with a focus on identifying colours. Using a range of colours allowed us to investigate what would…

50+ Pretend Play Spaces to Inspire Play | you clever monkey

This Army Men Invitation to Play is a great creative activity for boys who love history. It is easy to make with cloud dough and assortment of toy figures.