Monthly Archives: July 2013

29 07, 2013

our play spaces

July 29th, 2013|Categories: crafts|Tags: , , , , , |10 Comments

Happy Monday lovely people! :o}I hope you had a great weekend! One of the things I receive the most messages and emails about is people wondering how we have set up the kids play spaces in our home. I admit our kids are very lucky with what they have space-wise in this house. They are lucky enough have two areas that are dedicated to playing and creating.If you have been a reader for a while you will know I like to change our house around a lot. We have recently done a whole switcheroo {again} and […]

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28 07, 2013

{craft} weather :: pasta wheel rainbows

July 28th, 2013|Categories: crafts|Tags: , |0 Comments

I love any reason to dye pasta and we use it a lot in our activities and crafts at home. This idea is straight from pinterest, we just glued some pasta onto cardstock to make pretty rainbows. I set out the table with glue in a pot and all the coloured pasta ready for some fun! Noah knew what to do and had fun starting out on his own – he has also memorised the rainbow song so knew the order the colours should go in. Chloe needed a bit of help to start out – she […]

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28 07, 2013

{review + giveaway} ENJO window cleaner! {now closed}

July 28th, 2013|Categories: A Little Delightful|Tags: , , , |74 Comments

Well we have certainly been nesting here at our house over the past few weeks the other weekend we finally cleaned the windows. We have some really large windows all over the house and all of them were looking very very ordinary. We pretty much pretend that windows don’t need to be cleaned because neither of us particularly like that chore. I will clean the windows on the inside when they start to bug me a lot – but the outside honestly we haven’t touched for months and months. And it shows. Eeek. I hope this is […]

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26 07, 2013

{printable} weather station

July 26th, 2013|Categories: crafts, printables|Tags: , |0 Comments

We couldn’t do a weather theme without making up a weather station! I searched all over the net for a printable weather station but they all had a ‘snow’ category. Now, I do know that it does snow here in some places here in Australia, but for most of us in this gorgeous country it doesn’t so I decided to make our own and leave ‘snow’ out. We decorated it ourselves with different things like coloured rice, cotton wool, tissue paper, crayons and pipe cleaners! You could just draw the pictures or get as messy with […]

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23 07, 2013

{activity} weather :: cloud fluff sensory tub

July 23rd, 2013|Categories: A Little Delightful|Tags: , , , , |1 Comment

My kids love sensory play and after making cloud dough we also made cloud fluff! Yes, maybe over-doing the ‘cloud’ activities {we also did rain clouds in a glass!} during our weather theme but with a cloud theme happening in the baby’s nursery as well I have clouds on my mind :o}This is seriously a fun sensation. I enjoyed it too. It’s hard to describe. You know what shaving cream would feel like on it’s own – already pretty fun for kids, but the cotton wool provides a little resistance and texture!It’s definitely messy […]

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22 07, 2013

{activity} weather :: cloud dough sensory tub

July 22nd, 2013|Categories: A Little Delightful|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

I have seen so many pins on pinterest of cloud dough sensory tubs so of course when we did our little weather theme we had to try it! It is AMAZING! It’s so soft and my kids are still enjoying it weeks later!You need just two ingredients – plain flour and baby oil {or vegetable oil}We used 8 cups of plain flour and 1 cup of baby oil. {I just bought the cheapest of both I could find at the supermarket} I ended up adding in more baby oil as I mixed it together to get […]

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16 07, 2013

{activity} weather :: rain clouds in a glass

July 16th, 2013|Categories: A Little Delightful|Tags: , , |6 Comments

Over the last week of term and first week of our school holidays last week we kept on going with our weather theme! This time we decided to do a fun activity – rain clouds in a glass :o}  For this simple activity you will need some shaving cream, water and blue food colouring for rain, a glass or jar with some water and a dropper or medicine squirter for adding the ‘rain’ to the cloud in a glass.Put some shaving cream on top of the water in your glass or jar. Pretty white fluffy […]

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15 07, 2013

The Trusted Trolley – begin your additive free journey! {giveaway}

July 15th, 2013|Categories: Additive free|Tags: , , |32 Comments

As many of you who have been here a while know, we try our best to follow an additive free diet as much as possible. My kids often react to preservatives and specific colours {reactions can range from hyper behaviour to rashes and skin eczema, lucky for us their reactions are fairly mild} and so for this reason and for general health we avoid additives in our food. You can read more of my additive centred posts here.When we first started on our additive free journey, it was completely overwhelming. One look at the […]

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11 07, 2013

quiet thoughts and thanks

July 11th, 2013|Categories: A Little Delightful|Tags: , , |12 Comments

It’s been a bit quiet around here lately. Thank you so much for the messages and emails from some of you checking up on me! No, baby hasn’t  joined us yet {and hopefully won’t for at least another 4 weeks}, I’ve just been so exhausted and honestly not really coping on 2 hours sleep a night. I suppose it also doesn’t help that I’ve been in super nesty mode too – with a huge huge to do list. But with not a lot of energy available to blitz through it all I get a bit {a […]

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3 07, 2013

winter family fun :: 25+ ideas for enjoying the season together

July 3rd, 2013|Categories: A Little Delightful|Tags: , , , |5 Comments

I know winter isn’t everyone’s favourite time. Often winter comes with sniffles and coughs and lots of time indoors watching the rain.But there are a lot of things I do love about winter, things that are special to this time of year. So we try to embrace it, and allow our rhythms to change with the season. Winter is slower. And quieter. And I love the emphasis on quality family time and making cosy memories with our children.Night falls earlier and there is something more enjoyable to me about snuggling on the couch reading […]

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