The best sensory play of all?

Many blogs posts on sensory play involve wonderfully creative activities designed to feed imagination and imitate real world experiences. This is great, but I believe just involving your child in every day activities is often a better experience for them.

My son is now 8 months old, crawling, starting to cruise and into everything. I have three coping strategies as a parent. Reserved for when I'm fed up of pulling my son away from electrical points and sharp edges.

The first is back caring in my mai tai.

The second is water play.

The third is baking.

I strap him in the highchair and let him explore a bit of all the ingredients. Each and everyone gets inspected by my little assistant.

I tip flour, raisins and sugar on the table. He gets passed spoons and pots whilst I make the biscuit dough. He bashes, traces, tastes, chomps and flings. The mess is beautiful. Because he is learning and loving the experience.

When we have guests (other babies) its such a great, go to activity. We plonk them on our large kitchen table to 'help' us roll out and cut the cookies.

I love watching how much they love this play activity. I also love that it results in yummy mummy fuel (biscuits).

Adding food colouring drop by drop and watching the colour change, rolling and shaping. Banging the rolling pin. Using tin cans and cutters to shape cookies.

This has to be the ultimate sensory play?

Little Bloom- Cloth Nappy reviews

If you are a newbie in cloth its hard to know what to buy. I've been using Cloth Nappies for 16 months with my first born, and am preparing to have two in cloth when my daughter arrives in May. You could say I'm somewhat of cloth nappy pro. I've moved on from my start up stash, and invest in nappies that will see us through til froggy potty trains, and ideally ones his baby sister can use afterwards too! Pocket nappies are great for this purpose and this week I'm reviewing the little bloom nappies You can grab little bloom nappies on amazon from as little as £2.89 delivered. So they are a cheap option but are they cheerful enough to do the job?

Starting our kitchen garden

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Sowing in January- kitchen garden and allotments

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