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Making Maths Fun for Kids (at home)

February 19, 2013

Guest Post by Tierney Kennedy Today on the blog I have long time Be A Fun mum reader Tierney guest posting about making Math’s fun at home. With three kids of her own, plus 50 books for teachers under her name, she’s the person to talk to! Feel free to ask any questions in the [...]

Play Scene: Dinosaur Island

August 8, 2012

Last week, my son and I spent the day at the museum. He loved the dinosaurs the best. {At the museum} I enjoy using things we do together as inspiration for facilitating play, and so we created a Dinosaur Play Scene. Come and see Dinosaur Island. Materials Under-bed storage plastic container (or other plastic container) [...]

A Drawing Game: Collaboration

July 20, 2012

Guest Post from Fi from Destination Bali This drawing game is a lot of fun. It doesn’t matter what age your children are, or if there are a few kids to keep busy at the same time. Materials Water colour paper (or any other piece of paper or cardboard) Water colour paint and/or any other [...]

Imaginative Play Scene: A Fairy Door

June 29, 2012

I came across The Fairy Door Store on Facebook and I fell instantly in love with the product. The fairy doors are all kinds of magical cuteness, sure to stimulate imaginative play for kids. I emailed Sarah from to ask her if she would work with me to do a play scene for my blog, [...]

Nature Crafts & Activities

January 20, 2012

There is much wonder all around and endless ways to create joy. These are two things I hope my children will embrace. Our family aims to live life less compartmentalised so we look for ways to connect the things we do when we are out with things we do at home. One way to do [...]

Words As Concepts

June 14, 2011

It wasn’t exactly intentional, but over time, I noticed my use of certain words to describe concepts with the children. I guess it’s the writer in me. It’s been interesting to see how the repetitive use of these words/concepts have come full circle and now the kids encourage me with the same. I say things like: “use [...]

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