When I first read about this home-made toy, Tumbling Bunnies, on Made By Joel, I was eager to try it. It looked like such a great way to explore gravity as well as cause and effect. I didn’t imagine, however, … Continue reading
If you’ve ever seen a rainbow wind mobile twisting in the breeze, you’ll know how enchanting the continuously changing shapes can be.
As we’ve been looking at different types of wind toys, we thought we’d see if we could make our own rainbow wind mobile. It turns out that this was very easy to create and the result is beautiful.
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Here’s how to make a pinwheel garden. The result is beautiful – full of colours and movement – a great way to demonstrate to children how the wind moves Continue reading
Here’s a quick and easy way to make a pinwheel that not only looks great but one which actually works! Yes, that’s right … it works! The boys had so much fun playing with these pinwheels that we ended up making a number of them. Heaps of fun & educational as well! Continue reading
If you have pirates in your family or class, here’s an idea to extend their play. Give them some real maps. No, not real pirate treasure maps … but the sort of maps that you can get from tourist information centres. Continue reading
Recently, we’ve been dressing up as pirates and reading pirate stories. This meant we needed to come up different pirate related items including a pirate’s parrot, sword, sword holder and a hat. This is how we made our pirate costumes. Continue reading