30 days of play

Hands on: As we grow has been running a 30 days of play challenge.


Although we haven't been participating in it religiously, it has given us a few cool activities to do. Yesterday when Mia got home from preschool I had planned a pictorial treasure hunt for her to do. She loved it!

One of the challenges was to raid the recylcing bin and get the child to come up with something to make with the contents. Mia made this car, painted it and planned it herself. All Nathan and I did was attach the wheels!

Who would have known that foam shapes stick to the windows (temporarily) beautifully if you paint water on them? This kept Mia amused for a while.


Ignore the weeds growing in the tiles!

I taped a massive piece of paper to the wall and let Mia loose. She stood on a chair and painted for ages. There was a huge story behind the painting as well. There was a spider, Dad, a tightrope, and all sorts of other things in her painting!

I also discovered that she can write her name!! Thanks preschool!

Here is the artist at work:

We did the block challenge as well. Mia built a tower as tall as her. Then she wanted to measure it (she was 100cms tall).

Then she made a filled in rectangle with some other blocks (she is into doing that at the moment for some reason)

She used the trolley to get some more blocks:

Then she created an elaborate game that involved using one of the letter blocks as a dice and throwing it and you had to find another of the same letter and put a block on it. The rules had a few holes in them and it got a bit too much so that was the end of the block play!

We have been getting emailed play prompts and it has been fun just watching her and seeing her brain tick over. The challenge is about halfway through if you want to join in!