Enhancing Play with Loose Parts at Home

The other week I was sitting at an outside cafe in Napier with cousins that were visiting from Kapiti.   At this cafe, they have oversized checkers counters.  Every time we go to this cafe I see children playing with these counters.  Either stacking them up, placing them side by side, moving them about, the …

Putting Down my Phone Camera

Resolutions!     I have never really been into making New Year resolutions because I figured if I wanted to change something, I could change it at any time, not just at the start of the year.  However last year I made a new years resolution to "live greener" it was a broad resolution but ultimately …

Heuristic Play (Everyday Object Play)

I have never been a huge toy person, even before children I always thought a lot of toys were pointless.  As a child, we never had many toys and much preferred the outdoors, imaginary games or lego if we played indoors.  I am not perfect and I don't want to deprive my children of something …

New Cafe in Town

It's not often you find a cafe that ticks boxes when you have children.   I don't have a huge amount of boxes to tick but basically good coffee and a safe place for children to roam around is at the top the list. This little gem opened just before Christmas and it seems that …

Wandering Stones

This week I was introduced by a fellow mum friend to a facebook group 'Hawkes Bay Wandering Stones'. Basically, what the members do is paint rocks and hide them in parks around Hawkes Bay (and further afield). They post on the page that they have 'done a drop', give some clues as to where you …

Making a start

Hey ya, I'm Becks, Mum of two, Alex (four) and Frankie (15 months). I've wanted to start this page, blog etc for some time now for a number of reasons firstly. - I have learnt so much over the past four years since having Alex on the benefits of letting children play, especially uninterrupted play …