Monthly Archives: August 2013

29 08, 2013

meeting Owen

August 29th, 2013|Categories: A Little Delightful|Tags: , |18 Comments

Hi everyone!This post has been sitting in my drafts folder now for two weeks. I can’t quite believe how fast that time has flown! We are certainly in a beautiful newborn baby blur.Our gorgeous baby boy Owen joined us two weeks ago. As soon as I heard his little cry and held him in my arms I couldn’t stop crying happy tears – he was here! The whole pregnancy had felt a little surreal and sometimes I still couldn’t believe that we even had a baby on the way. But when he was placed on […]

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12 08, 2013

putting together a mini gallery wall

August 12th, 2013|Categories: A Little Delightful|Tags: , |5 Comments

This post is brought to you by Target I have been a little obsessed with gallery walls of late. I first did one in Chloe’s room, and then in Noah’s. And then in the nursery and now I’ve also done one in the living room.I’m much more comfortable now with putting them together, and don’t know why it took me years before I gave it a go in our home! If you’ve been wanting to try putting up a gallery wall at your house, what are you waiting for?! It’s not as scary as you […]

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11 08, 2013

a little baby nook

August 11th, 2013|Categories: A Little Delightful|Tags: , , , |8 Comments

Well I can’t quite believe we have reached 39 weeks and I am only now just posting about baby’s little nursery nook in our bedroom!This has been almost finished for quite a while, it was one of the first things we organised for our soon to be born baby as I thought it would help make it feel ‘real’ that we were in actual fact having a baby!It had been waiting for the final, finishing touch, which was a home made cloud mobile to hang above.The cloud itself is a little pillow. I was […]

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11 08, 2013

organising our play spaces

August 11th, 2013|Categories: A Little Delightful|Tags: , , |10 Comments

Hi everyone!Following on from a previous post where I shared our play spaces as I received a lot of questions about how we organise things so I thought I’d do up a whole post with lots of answers! If you missed the post about our play spaces you can check it out here. This ended up being a HUGE post – hope you don’t mind and that I’ve answered most of the questions I received! If I missed yours or if you have a question I haven’t answered feel free!!Where are the baskets in your […]

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7 08, 2013

{activity} construction :: alphabet rocks for letter recognition and sight word spelling!

August 7th, 2013|Categories: A Little Delightful|Tags: , , , , , |1 Comment

Another activity we had a lot of fun with during our construction themed fun were these alphabet rocks!We have had these rocks in our backyard for over a year, the kids use them to build little towns on the grass or lately, in the sandpit. It started with writing numbers onto a few of the rocks since Chloe has been so interested in numbers lately, and I branched out and did the alphabet too. I just used a large thick sharpie and wrote a letter or number on each rock and then wrote the […]

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2 08, 2013

{activity} construction :: hammer time!

August 2nd, 2013|Categories: A Little Delightful|Tags: , , , , |3 Comments

We used to have one of those tap tap toys that came with shapes, little nails and a small hammer but it was a cheapy discount store buy and didn’t last very long. I hadn’t gotten around to replacing it and school holidays rolled around and so I brought out some thumb tacks and pulled a cork board trivet out of the kitchen drawer. ta da! DIY hammering toy. {those awesome tool sets I found the kids at Masters have a hammer that is the perfect size for little kids hands so that is what […]

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2 08, 2013

{activity} construction :: nuts and bolts matching

August 2nd, 2013|Categories: A Little Delightful|Tags: , , , , |5 Comments

I shared our ‘construction site’ table here and said we had a couple of activities set up to surprise the kids with in the morning. One of them was a fun construction sensory tub and the other was this matching nuts and bolts activity.This activity is really really good for fine motor skills and helping to develop the muscles kids need in their hands for proper pencil grip. When I took Noah to occupational therapy last year this is one of the activities his therapist used and it was certainly a favourite! If you’re concerned […]

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2 08, 2013

{activity} DIY construction site and sensory tub

August 2nd, 2013|Categories: A Little Delightful|Tags: , , , |2 Comments

Over the school holidays we had some fun with our construction theme! Both my kids love anything trucks, diggers, tools and building so I just knew we could have a lot of fun with it. We started our activities by surprising the kids this ‘construction site’ when they woke up one morning!I laid out two activities for them to do and popped their hi-vis vests on the back of their chairs. Hubby brought in some orange cones from our outdoor playbox and thought he’d have some fun with some caution tape! A month or so ago we also […]

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