by admin | 20/02/18 | Blogs, Play for Pre-Schoolers, Play for School aged children, Play for Toddlers
Hands up if you are a parent of children that ask you to play with them and you feel torn between wanting to spend the precious time with your little learners and the need to do something else? Well, you can take some comfort in knowing you are certainly not the only...
by admin | 13/02/18 | Play for Pre-Schoolers
…so teaching our little ones how to use scissors can be a tricky prospect with many lingering questions eg. what is the right age to introduce scissors, is there a correct way to hold a pair of scissors, how to teach a left handed child to use scissors when you...
by admin | 06/02/18 | Play for Pre-Schoolers, Play for School aged children, Play for Toddlers
Concentration in young children is a skill that needs to be taught, nurtured and encouraged. Today I am sharing some ideas to help strengthen concentration and ways to encourage our little learners to feel a sense of accomplishment. •Chunk big tasks into smaller...
by admin | 30/01/18 | Play for Babies, Play for Pre-Schoolers, Play for School aged children, Play for Toddlers
Guest Blog by Jodie. When you hear the term ‘nature play’ what do you think of? Is it the laughter of children squealing as they race the waves at the beach, or collecting ‘treasures’ down by the river bed or perhaps you just can’t stop...
by admin | 16/01/18 | Home Organisation, Play for Pre-Schoolers, Play for School aged children, Play for Toddlers
At celebrateplay HQ, we try to be bucket fillers, a concept I stumbled across whilst researching student social and emotional well being (an area I am most passionate about). I fell in love with this concept so much that I really wanted to implement it at home with...
by admin | 02/01/18 | Home Organisation, Play for Pre-Schoolers, Play for School aged children, Play for Toddlers
Let’s talk about ‘open ended play’. Have you heard or read term before and wondered what does that actually mean? ‘Open ended play’ is a term often used in early childhood settings and is deeply rooted in the Reggio Emilia approach to...
