My goal this year is to embrace life with curiosity and experimentation to gain greater connection. One of the key habits I am endeavouring to establish is to undertake a monthly experiment …
The stages of play and tips for playing with your child
This is a brilliant guest post by Kobie Bloomfield who is a paediatric speech therapist who specialises in childhood language development and most recently founder of the brilliant start-up ToyCycle. Kobie founded …
5 ways to find more time to spend with the kids
As noted in a previous post, when I asked the question: If there was one thing about your family life at the moment you could change what would it be? There were …
10 Tips To Get The Kids Playing Outdoors
This post is sponsored by Nuffnang. As a primary school kid growing up in the country, I spent the majority of my time outside when I was at home. We lived in …
Keeping Safe With Springfree Trampoline
This post is sponsored by Nuffnang. We are a fairly active family, our kids all play and enjoy team sports all year round. They have training sessions to attend on top of …
Balloon Games
We have a few simple balloon games that the kids love to play. They are great games to have up your sleeve if the weather is not conducive to outside play. Balloon …
How Do You Cope With The School Holidays?
This post is sponsored by Nuffnang. It is now getting towards the last couple of weeks of school holidays here in Victoria. I am often asked “how do you cope with school …
Playing With Cars
All of our kids have loved playing with cars. Over the years we have built up quite a collection of cars and associated Hot Wheels sets with ramps and tracks. But I …
War Card Game For Kids
The War Card Game is a favourite with my kids. It is a great game for youngsters (4+) who are just starting to learn the relativity of numbers, eg that 3 is …
iPad Apps For The School Holidays
This post is sponsored by Nuffnang. I have been lusting after an iPad for awhile now, so jumped at the chance when Vodafone asked if I would like to review one (I …
VTech Storio Review + Give Away!
Thanks to all who entered – Kim was the winner and has been notified – “The little girl who lives next door, her parents are alcoholics and don’t believe in Christmas”. This …
Scrabble Tips + Scrabble Give Away
Entries for this give away are now closed. The winner was Kara-lee Dewhirst – “I was introduced to Scrabble by my grandmother who dared me to beat her. I was only 6 …
Rugby World Cup 2011 – Flags To Print
Last June I posted an activity for kids about flags of the world, based on the Football World Cup for “the beautiful game” or soccer as most Australians call it. (The photo …
10 Great Links on Literacy and Play for Kids
There is so much inspiration to be found in the blogosphere when it comes to kids literacy and play. My round up post this month focuses on creative ways bloggers are sharing …
HP ePrinter Review and Win a $20,000 Holiday with HP and Kung Fu Panda 2
This post is sponsored by Nuffnang. At the Planning With Kids house we have a new printer courtesy of HP and as Po from Kung Fu Panda would say it is “awesome”. …
Kids and Art
Visiting on the blog today is the very talented Christie from Childhood 101 and I am asking her a few questions about Kids and Art. Something Christie knows a lot about with …
Recycled Creations
I have talked about the fabulous Reverse Art Truck before on the blog (here and here). I love the idea of the kids using their imagination to make creations out of recycled …
New Parenting Resource on Exercise and Nutrition For Kids
This post is sponsored by Nuffnang. Both my husband and I exercise regularly and aim to eat pretty healthily. As this is something we want our kids to do, it is important …