Pretend food play- Felt sandwich

I was looking in our box of recycling goodies for inspiration and came across some sponge. This was flat and immediately made me think of bread. So I set to work making Little Boo a pretend sandwich with felt fillings.  I did this a while ago with Little Boo but due to the success of the sponge cakes thought that many of you may like this idea as well. It was really simple to make and could be made more difficult but I love the simplicity of just cutting the felt adding a few details with marker then it was ready .

Little Boo loves playing with it especially as I have made the cheese like grated cheese (obviously this would not be a good idea for children who tend to still put things in their mouths but Little Boo is fine) she enjoyed sprinkling!  Little Boo was taking orders for her sandwiches discussing what we wanted.

Busy bags part 3

The next three busy bags that I am sharing with you are threading inspired. I am sure some of you may have seen our post on the Sellotape reel threading. For this I created a threading game for Little Boo out of Sellotape reels. These are great to transport as all is needed is the reels and threading material. Little Boo loves threading so this always keeps her happy and busy.

Another threading bag just contains coloured beads and some pipe cleaners that are the same colours as the beads. The idea is that the beads can be matched to the same colour pipe cleaner. However, Little Boo also enjoyed just twisting the pipe cleaners around each other as well or just making mommy pretty bracelets.

Button practise is the next busy bag this was inspired from tried and trues post on busy bag swaps.  It is simple to make and cheap as I already had loads of felt. The idea is to improve skills with using a button. Little Boo can use the button to put the felt shapes onto the ribbon. This was easy to make and can be used for pattern making and/or colour recognition. Little Boo enjoyed this as I started to make it more and more challenging with the patterns. The only problem was that the felt holes will stretch so be careful when little one is using this especially if they get frustrated if they can not button one on.

Hope that you liked these ideas there are a few more tomorrow :) 

The felt farm

I love exploring with felt and have recently made a wonderful discovery! that t-shirt transfer works to transfer images onto white felt. Due to our theme of animals I decided to make Little Boo a Felt Farm.  Here is how it went.

I printed images of the farm animals and people on to the transfer paper, do not forget images need to be mirrored when printing so when completed they are the correct way around. These images were from  Twinkl and Dltk

Cut out  images and place face down on the felt.  It was important this was white as the transfer paper I had was for light fabrics. Please be careful when ironing place a t-towel over the felt and pieces and keep rotating the iron.  Mine needed ironing for quite a long time.  Do not use steam. 

The completed piece.  I also made, the sun, house, gate and had the tractor from a cheap felt set I had brought. 

Little Boo playing with her new felt farm. 

Putting the ducks in the pond 

It was great fun playing with this and got Little Boo thinking she started making up little stories about the farm and setting the scene with the felt pieces.  This also encouraged counting as I asked questions such as "how many ducks are there?"