Activities @Home

Discover a list of organisations providing useful resources and activities for you to do with your little ones to help keep them active, engaged and learning whist at home.

Heuristic play is a simple child-led approach to helping your little one learn. Heuristic play allows babies and young children to make choices and develop preferences using a variety of natural and household resources.

It is NEVER too early or too late or to start sharing books with your child. It’s a great chance to sit, cuddle up and enjoy a book, and deepen your ever growing bond. Books can be shared throughout the day, anytime and anyplace…they don’t have to be saved for bedtime.

Play dough cutters are great, but without cutters your child has the opportunity to use their imagination even more! Their creations can be anything they want...cakes, dinosaur footprints or maybe even a wiggly worm at the bottom of the garden. ‘How many wiggly worms to we have 1, 2, 3, 4.

Use the enclosed paper and crayons to draw your own masterpiece, as you draw model how you talk about your picture…

Block play is open ended. Your child’s creations can be anything they want it to be from a rocket blasting off in to space, to a farmyard or fairy garden. The possibilities are endless! There is no right or wrong way to play with blocks.

Are you looking for some activity ideas to implement into your family’s daily routine?

Are you looking for some activity ideas to implement into your family’s daily routine?