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Fish adding and taking away tuff tray

My daughter is really loving maths at the moment and asked me if I could write her some sums for when she came home from school.

I decided to make this a bit more fun by using fish instead of numbers. By using an object instead of a number it also meant she needed to practice her counting skills.

My drawing skills aren’t fantastic so fish seemed to be an easy to thing to...

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Monster Truck slide painting

My son loves making ramps out of all kinds of things to push his monster trucks down, so I thought I would turn it into a painting activity! What you need: 🚘 a ramp - we used a slide but you can use any kind of ramp you can find 🚘 tuff tray or something similar to catch the monster trucks at the bottom of the ramp 🚘 paper 🚘monster trucks 🚘sellotape 🚘paint How to do the activity

🚘 I used...

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Learning to spell with your car loving child

Trying to get my son away from his cars to sit firm and learn about cars was always really tricky, so I decided to bring the learning to his car play mat! My son really loved this activity and didn’t even realise that he was learning at the same time, which is always a bonus!

What you will need for this activity

🚘 a car playmat. If you don’t have one you can always try making one...

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Learning to count with bricks and cars

My son loves cars so we try to include them in lots of our learning activities. For this activity we are learning about counting and measuring.

For this activity you need :
  • Different sized cars, we used a variety from big trucks to little sports cars
  • Lego blocks, the smaller bricks are better as you will use more and encourage them to count more.
  • Paper
  • ...
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Zog and the flying doctors tuff tray

This has been another one of our favourite bedtime stories, so was another great choice for us to turn into a tuff tray activity.

What you need for this activity
  • Tuff tray
  • Princess
  • Dragon
  • Knight
  • King
  • A unicorn
  • A lion
  • A mermaid

We were lucky that we had a toy castle to use, but you can...

picture of The Tiger who came to Tea tuff tray

The Tiger who came to Tea tuff tray

The Tiger who came to Tea is such a lovely book, which we love reading at bedtime. As my children love it so much, I used it to make a tuff tray activity.

I had to be quite resourceful to create this tray and dipped into lots of different toy boxes to get all the characters, but it was well worth it for the fun we had.

What you need for your tuff tray:

• Sophie character •...

picture of What the Ladybird Heard tuff tray activity

What the Ladybird Heard tuff tray activity

This tuff tray activity was lots of fun and helped get my children back into reading one of our much-loved bedtime story books.

What you need for this tuff tray activity
  • Tuff tray
  • Farmer
  • Farm animals – horse, cow, hen, dog, cats, duck, sheep, pig and goose
  • Two bad men – lanky Len and hefty Hugh
  • Getaway car
  • Ladybird
  • ...
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Colour themed playdate platters 

Over the half term recently we have had lots of play dates with friends, where normally someone either provides us with food or we bring our own lunch boxes. But this half term we came up with a much more fun way to provide the food!

Whilst scrolling through TikTok I found a new trend where people come to parties with a different platter, each with a colour theme of food! Most of...

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Home made Sweet Cones

We have recently had my son's birthday party and I have been trying to think of some party favours that the children would love but weren't full of plastic that would most likely end up in the bin.

My son loves sweets so I found these sweet cones, which I thought were perfect! They also had the added benefit that we could have some fun at home making them ourselves!

How to make...
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Valentines Day Mess Free Painting

My Daughter loves painting and, whilst I enjoy a good messy painting session when we have the time, sometimes I need an activity which is a bit less messy and much quicker to tidy away.

My go to addition to my painting activity during this time is always cling film! Sounds strange I know, but trust me, it’s great for everyone!

With Valentines day approaching we have been...

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