This tuff tray kills 2 birds with one stone as the baby ate his way through the cornflakes (meaning I didn’t have to make breakfast) and my toddler happily played with the farm. This simple farm based tuff tray idea gave the toddler a good hour of fun play and took mere minutes to set up.

Then red dye, bicarbonate of soda and a splash of washing up liquid were added to the cup and white vinegar was poured in. With tea on Friday night we read some of our favourite farm stories to help us with ideas as to what we might find on a farm.They give the opportunity to be creative, to act out familiar and well loved stories and situations. This tray is perfect for sensory exploration but is also beneficial for learning many things including fine and gross motor skills, role play, and mark marking. Different animals with different family units were used in the tray to link it back to how other children have different family setups. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Her creativity always astounds me and her ability to translate the vision she has using loose parts.

The textures, loose parts and vehicles all use different motor movements and is excellent for child development. Sophie collected leaves and petals and used them to spell out her name (along with her age at the time) in the tuff tray. My little ones just loved squishing the different textures between their fingers and mixing them together. We then read some books about tractors and food in general and had a chat about different things but I mostly left them to play with this as the pleased. My original idea was to create an industrial, crop type of farm on one Spot and a country, animal farm on the other but in the end we had a mix of the two on each.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Dinosaur Busy Tray- Use taste-safe ingredients to create a roarsome busy tray for your baby or toddler (and their toy dinosaurs) to discover. Once this was all set up and put into place I then added toys that I already had in our home such as animals, Happyland people, a fire engine, and other little bits. I have two daughters aged 5 and 7 and after working in retail merchandising for over 12 years I really wanted a change.I'm Louise, mummy of three - Jessica, forever six, who was born with half a heart and lives on in mine; and heart-healthy Sophie (born 2013) and Thomas (born 2018). Sensory play has so many benefits for our little one’s brain development and their fine motor skills. To make the mini beasts tuff tray I covered the bottom half of the tray in soil and added a line of rocks halfway along the top of the soil. Whether it's travel, food, lifestyle or just a healthy dose of parenting reality, there's something for everyone here. The children were able to freely explore with different utensils and gain a little understanding about the garden and what lives within it.

Here you'll find a mix of parenting tips, easy crafts, fun activities, and free printables to make your life that little bit easier. I used homemade playdough for the worm tunnels and worms and added loose parts and other items for an extra sensory experience. I will be doing some more tuff trays along side popular children's books in the next couple of months. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. This tray provided hours of open-ended play and fun, with the added sensory experience of playing outdoors.Making nature collages was a popular activity with my girls, although I’ve yet to try it with Thomas. They had to get into the Tuff Spot themselves and really interact with the farm with every bit of their being. As time went on Esther started to notice the flashcards and the Big Jigs animals with words on the back. And, if you try out any of the ideas above please do tag me and the Instagram account of the original creator - we would love to see all of your creations! I placed Harry’s digger vehicles all over the tuff tray in different positions, ready for him to play.