Cornish Mama

This weeks theme for #WonderPlayDiscover is Stacking! Zach loves stacking, he will literally stack anything! Loo rolls are a firm favourite in our house, if 2 or more loo rolls were in the bag, they're probably now in a tower curtesy of Zach HAHA! The first proper wooden toy we bought him was the Grimm's waves when he was about 10 months old and he enjoyed demolishing that more than anything but he did really enjoy it, for his 1st birthday my in laws got him some grinds pebbles and he loves stacking then but the proper stacking started when he got his 36 grimms cubes for christmas! He loved them (and so did Daddy who spent Christmas Day trying to see if he could stack all 36) and could probably do 5 blocks by a couple of days, he however then managed 7 after a couple of months and can now easily do 10 high!  He often stacks his animals and does prefer Lanka Kade for stacking however seeing as this was a challenge from the wooden play den, we stacked our Holztiger and N...

Travelling Through Space Ice Tray This week I did two tuff tray set ups based on space to celebrate and learn about the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, it was also part of the #WonderPlayDiscover challenge set up by The Wooden Play Den This Tuff Tray set up was really easy to do but very effective as Zach loves Ice play! I filled up 4 small buckets (small coloured buckets from Tesco, I think they are 60p each) using some black food colouring with water, a variety of glitters and stars. I also made another lot of shrinkie plastic, I made a rocket, star, moon and planet and put these in the buckets before freezing. This was all the prepping I had to do, all I had to do once frozen was to plop the most onto the tray and fill up the buckets with warm water! I gave him the buckets of warm water, a spade and a shallow metal bowl (which is great for scooping the water off the tuff tray) and encouraged him to pour the water over the ice blocks not that he needs mu...

Moon Landing Tuff Tray This week I did two tuff tray set ups based on space to celebrate and learn about the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, it was also part of the #WonderPlayDiscover challenge set up by The Wooden Play Den I started by making a slime, Zach loves playing with Slime but I find it a bit of difficult sometimes as he likes to eat it and I have to keep such a close eye on him that it sometimes ruins the whole child-led-play idea! But I found a recipe (it was on Instagram but I can't remember where from so if it was you, please let me know!) so here it is: 1/8 cup of chia seeds 1 cup of water Soak over night together (you can add food colouring to the water if you wish but i wanted it to look like the moon so i kept it white) Add Cornflour, I reckon I used about 2 cups but just add slowly until its not sticky to touch anymore, the texture is between slime and obleek and is incredibly satisfying! I don't have a huge range of 'space ...