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We have spent most of today inside exept for running down the shop for a few things. So an indoor day means puzzles and books galore. Lil's has still be waking at 6am which is hard....I can say, especially without coffee, but we get there. So the morning consisted of some cbeebies time and some cuddles which is the best part of the day and she is so chilled that I get loads of cuddles. I did have a bit of housework again, just thr hoovering and never ending washing but it didn't take up too much time. Whilst I was doing this Lil's made a tent with her rocking horse and evey blanket she could find. This afternoon we popped to the shops quickly for a few essentials and a couple of treats and then when hope we started on the puzzles.   We stopped for dinner, Lil's had a turkey burger and some potato wedges which went down a treat. After the mess was tidied up Lils got into her PJ's and we settled down to more puzzles. She is getting realy good a...

I love doong sensory play with Lilly and this is one that we have dine recently, cornflour slime. This is so cool and so easy to make, it is also quite easy to clean up too. You will need - Cornflour - Water - Food colouring (extra) All you do to make the slime is put some conflour onto a tray or plate and slowly add  a little water, mix together until it forms a thin paste. You can add the food colouring here if you wish. I love this myself as it kind of forms a solid when being played with but will settle as a liquid. We like to make a fountain of our hands and let the liquid form run through oir fingers.  This is a brilliant messy play for toddler and you could always add bits to teach things or we have used to put over toy animals in the past to learn what certain aninals look like. It's also a great way in introduce the idea of solids and liquids to them I love doing this messy play with her and she absolutely loves it....

Lilly has been learning about letters at school and is learning how to write her name, so last night I decided to use our bath paint mentioned in my  April favourites  post. We started off with spelling and writing her name on the wall, I wrote it as the bath paint isn't the easiest to use. She seemed to enjoy watching and learning through this so decided to start writing letters on the wall and getting her to tell me what letter it was.  After she told me the letter I got her to try and think of words that begin with that letter which worked really well. Se was able to come up with some words for all the letters I wrote down for her. She did get a little confused with C and K, when I asked her for an animal that began with C she said Kangaroo but I explained as best I could and told her that it was a good try too. We played with the paint for a good 20 minutes which kept Lilly ammused and was teaching her at the same time. It was so nice to see her en...

We have mentioned these before when Lilly was just over 2 years old but I still had a packet in the drawers.  These are so easy to use, you get a small pack of the colour in tiny form, you then let them soak in the amount of water stated for the time stated, then they're ready to go. The texture is very slimy and slippery but bounce very well which Lilly loves. We play with them in the bath to keep the mess to a minimum otherwise I'll be finding them in a years time. They do brake eventually but Lilly gets a good 30 - 45 minutes per pack before we call it time. I get two different colour packs off of eBay for just 99p and they are usually delivered within a few days. eBay shop These are brilliant for learning colours or could even use them for a themed sensory play such as maybe the beach with shells and other related bit too. These are brilliant even for Lilly's age, she gets a lot of fun of them and they keep her out of mischief fo...