tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51149118437744443702012-01-18T07:19:10.851+10:00Fun with my kids at home and out 'n' about in BrisbaneBusy Brissy Mumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14409929043237111693noreply@blogger.comBlogger2101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114911843774444370.post-86441357476126030322011-08-13T10:34:00.008+10:002011-08-13T11:14:08.003+10:00

If you read my last post you may remember that our window painting turned into window finger painting. So, this art activity up was just the thing to extend the girl's interest a little more. Not that I organised it but even the least organised, messiest, spontaneous activity can be fun! It certainly wasn't put together the way I would like it BUT the two girlies were so happy doing painting

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We had such a beautiful sunny winter's morning here in Brisbane the other day that there was no way were were going to waste it indoors, even though the girlies are both a little unwell. So, outside we went with our hats and sunscreen on, ready to discover some play fun.Now that Miss H is a little bit taller, I thought it was time to get some paints out and have a great time painting our

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Meet our funny play dough people. This activity is just plain fun. You can use anything you like really to create faces of all kinds. We found some coloured pasta, "pop cleaners" pipe cleaners and large google eyes in amongst our collage stocks and when we repeated the activity we also added some coloured feathers which worked perfectly too. I set up everything in little bowls and gave each of

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There's no doubt about it, kids love to imitate the adults around them. Just today, I overheard the girls playing a game of bedtime/ sleeping where I'd set up the beanbag and my tall bedroom lamp. Miss H (2.6) said, "goodnight sweetie-pie", just like daddy says as she switched off the lamp for Miss M to go to bed. Earlier Miss M was telling Miss H to go to bed and stay on her bed, just like mummy

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So, there I was sneaking around the kitchen this morning while the girlies played, hoping that they wouldn't catch me preparing this activity. All was good, they were busy in play.I made one batch of plain play dough and once it was finished I kneaded it. Then, I put the dough into two blobs and prepared it for the big surprise. This IS called "surprise play dough!"I pressed my fist into the

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"All aboard!"The girlies and I are playing together with everyone over at Childhood101 for We Play.Two girls, different ages, same toys sometimes means squabbles so when I see them creating together, playing together, problem solving and being team players, I have to stop and enjoy the fun filled, lovely moment (and take a photo or two).I've been collecting these fruit boxes for a while now and

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A cake made for "Aunty Symon" (Uncle Symon)by my littliest, Miss H, with some help from me. Both girls had a great time decorating it.It's a layered chocolate mud cake - the cheat's version!I have a passion for cooking that is absolutely unstoppable! It's what gets me up in the morning (like this morning) to try a new pancake recipe (for us). 1 cup plain flour. 1 cup milk. 1 egg. Mix and cook in

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The girlies and I are playing along with everyone for We Play over at Childhood 101.This house of ours is a work in progress. It's missing some of the comforts or special features houses can have but we love it and we'll continue to work on it (probably over many, many years). Until it's finished some of its not so lovely features become our best play areas, like the muddy car tyre tracks where a

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There is so much to love about a trip to Queen's Park, Ipswich. Firstly there is the gigantic playground which has every sort of play fun in it. Then, there is the cafe which overlooks the playground but what is most unique and special about Queen's Park is the animal enclosure.Entry to this area is completely free although a donation is encouraged to help with the ongoing work there. In the last

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The Natural Bridge, SpringbrookI cannot go without telling you about our trip to The Natural Bridge in Springbrook, Queensland. To get to Springbrook takes about 2hrs from Brisbane and some of the trip is spent enjoying winding roads and beautiful views. Springbrook is a magnificent place but a most spectacular sight is found when you visit The Natural Bridge in the Springbrook National

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Our decorated eggs.

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The girlies and I are in the middle of making some beautiful paper mache Easter eggs, just for fun. We've added our first few layers of newspaper, in preparation for the final two layers which will be white paper, followed by our final layer of choice. I'll pop by the blog tomorrow to show you how they end up looking.To Make Something From Paper Mache...Use Cel mix glue or kids PVA glue as they

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The holidays are finally here for our little family but we won't be going too far from home. Making the choice to be a SAHM doesn't always allow us to afford time away but it doesn't mean that we have to miss out on the fun all together. Here's some ideas we have for this Easter break....1 Find a great park for a play. These parks are asking for Brissy kids to come and have some fun - Neal

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Ice-creams at Picnic Point, ToowoombaWow, it's been a long time since I've posted on Busy Busy Mum! I guess I lost my blogging voice for a little while. Things have changed a lot round here so I've had to work at finding the time to fit my usual family fun and blogging time into the new routine life has thrown at us.The year started off in an unexpected way with the floods happening so close to

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beforeThis has been a long time coming! Well over a year ago I purchased a wooden dolls house while out "treasure hunting" one day. It had just come in to the store and the price on it was only $10. The house wasn't a flash one and to look at it, it seemed to have been well loved by it's previous owner. The curtains, wall paper and flooring choices told me that it had probably been made a very

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At Easter time we save shiny egg wrappers to use in our art and craft and at Christmas time we save our Christmas cards to use in all kinds of Christmas fun, the following year. This craft is just a simple Christmas collage using Cel Mix glue (or glue sticks) and the pictures from the fronts of cards. Too easy!

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I hope you don't mind if am a proud mummy for a moment....Miss M (4.3) was asked to paint a canvas as part of a display of children's artwork telling the true story of Christmas. Her painting now hangs on the gallery wall of our church amongst a line up of other beautiful paintings. How excited was I!! I had to remember that I wasn't the one commissioned to do the art!! She was so excited too and

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In amongst the madness that surrounds Christmas there is a story that quietens our hearts and makes us think about the true meaning of Christmas - God sending his Son to earth as a baby on that first Christmas.As a family we try to focus much of our Christmas time celebrations and activities around Jesus birthday and for some time now I've wanted a nativity set to help us do this. A beautiful

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Soak your chalk in water, then let the kids get creative on a path, side of the house or chalkboard. They'll love this activity - the chalk will be much more vibrant in colour.

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Sisters at Southbank1 ~ City Christmas ~It wouldn't be Christmas for our family if we didn't take a trip into the city to see the huge Christmas tree in King George Square or the spectacular Myer windows dressed to tell a beautiful tale. Take the City Cat in and enjoy all that the city has to offer this Christmas.Flipside Circus will be performing in King George Square from Monday 20 - Thursday

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Oh we're a little slow off the mark with this one but then we're a bit slow with everything at the moment in this house. Apologies for the lack of blog posts. I'm going to have to post when I am able to as I've been out of action quite a bit with a crazy back, neck and head. (Would you believe I put it out having fun with the girls?) So here is our Advent Calendar for this year. I drew a simple

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How special is it to receive homemade wrapping paper from a littlie. Old paintings are great for this! Both my girls were very happy to get birthday presents from their Melbourne cousins which were wrapped up in the most beautiful homemade bubble printing paper. It made my day to see it too - so creative!We had a present to wrap for a little friend recently so we decided to make our own wrapping

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Earlier this week we celebrated Miss H's second birthday with a family afternoon tea party. Time since we welcomed Miss into the world has passed by very quickly! Here are some pics from the party and from her birthday on Monday. She is loving playing with all her new gifts. We've played coffee shops and bakeries many times over.Love my girl!

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Find a small bucket.Fill with water.Get a paintbrush.Paint the house!

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This week we celebrated Daddy's 40th birthday so with much excitement two little girls made their own cards to give to him. Miss M (4.1) and I decided that it would be fun to try making a pop up card so it would be extra special for such an occasion.We googled how to make pop-up cards and found this great tutorial with easy to follow instructions. Then we watched this tutorial so we knew how to

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Look what delightful play items we found at the treasure shop today - a lovely kid's washing line and an old fashioned washing trolley. ($4 for the line. $5 for the trolley.)Wet washing hanging on the line.Drying very quickly when the weather's fine.Along comes the wind and blows it all about.Flip, flap, flip, flap, floating in and out.Composer: Liz OlsenPublisher: ABC Music

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We collect cookie cutters. Sometimes we find a few when we go on treasure hunts and add them to our container and I have some great ones I have been given as gifts or have purchased over the years. Here are five creative things that can be done with cookie cutters....1 + Play with play dough +There is nothing better than having a big blob of play dough kept in the fridge ready for use at any

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The girls and I are playing along with everyone over at Childhood 101 We Play today.This isn't exactly the healthiest game idea but boy we had fun playing it! I've been out of action now for a few days with neck, back and head pain and daddy has been taking over the daily role of "director of fun". Today was his first day back at work so I had to resume my role and this is the game we came up

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Yesterday I posted that we were making our own stamps to create some thank you cards for friends. At the time the stamps were happily drying in the sun. By the afternoon they were ready for the stamping fun and the girls were able to create beautiful and very colourful homemade printed cards. Stamping Printed Cards You will need... Plain cards - I buy these from a craft shop, cut to size but

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Recently we've had new friends and wonderful old friends (separately) do some amazing things for our family. Each act of kindness was to bless the girls but really through their kindness we have all been blessed in various ways.Their kindess has prompted us to give a thank you back and considering that the gifts were for the girls, I thought it would be great if the thank you's came from them.

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The girls and I are playing along with everyone over at Childhood 101 We Play.I promised you I'd give you a look at our spring mural as we continue to work on it, adding things here and there. We've had two more days creating and glueing since my last spring mural blog post . Yesterday Miss M was in the mood for creative arty fun so she spent the afternoon making various spring things to stick on

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A few things have changed around here lately and it's been for the better so I'm loving it. (Look out for that blog post coming soon!) This particular change has come about because I want to keep the girl's activities fresh and interesting. I want them to be able to tidy up easily after play and I want to keep the place tidy as well. I needed to de-clutter and reorganise the toys.The solution - a

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Here are my 5 smiley things to join in the Five for Friday fun over at Aspiring Mum.Family Fun...Miss M's Charlie and Lola party was great but it was especially so because of time with our close family and a special family we do life with. It makes me smile to have such special people around us. Here's a picture Miss M drew after the party. It's her "whole family". She loves them dearly.Hilarious

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I thought the girls and I could give some tracing a go after being inspired by a blog post I read here at The Artful Parent and after enjoying our body tracing activity so much but instead of making this a one off project, we worked on it over two days. It was great to turn it into something more than just tracing, even though the tracing part was super fun. Yesterday afternoon we traced around

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We don't do big parties every year in our family and really we are trying to work out how often we do have them. We do however work to a theme most years and we do have family and one special friend over for a little party/ get together for afternoon tea. Seeing family makes for a lovely time celebrating together.From my last blog post you would know that Miss M turned 4 on Friday so yesterday we

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As I sit here to type I think about where the last four years has taken me. This time 4 years ago I held my own tiny baby girl in my arms for the very first time. She was such a precious little bundle and I'm so glad she came into our lives. We now have one very lively, confident and fun loving 4 year old girl! To celebrate we (the E girls) went to Nourish cupcake shop for morning tea (just so

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You know what they say about the simple things in life, well table drawing is one of them and it is often the best in our house.1 Cover the table in paper.2 Draw all over the paper.3 Hang it up or toss it away later.It doesn't get much simpler or cleaner than that.You could try....using butcher's paper, easel paper or backs of old posters. We found our butcher's paper at Riot.covering the dining

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Spring arrived here in Australia on the first of September and Miss M was really keen to find out all about it. (I also think she was very keen to find out when the swimmers could come back out!) Together we decided that it would be fun to make a spring mural which could be made of anything and everything we had but showing things that might be found outside in spring. This has been a great

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Once again I'm joining in with Aspring Mum for her Friday fun. It's great to end the week with some grateful, smiley thoughts. Here are my five smiley things....Cute as a Button....I love to cover buttons to make clips and hair ties for my girls and friend's girls. This lovely little package was ordered by my friend who also enjoys this addictive crafty activity. I can't wait to get stuck into

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The girls and I are playing along with everyone over at Childhood 101 We Play this week.Washing up... always seems fun... when you're little!*****You could extend this activity by...Singing and playing 'Wash the Dishes, Dry the Dishes'Singing and dancing to 'Mrs Knife and Mr Fork' - Justine ClarkeCome play at the Childhood 101 Link up.

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A few week ago we excitedly purchased two little hammers (from Bunnings), one for each of the girls. We anticipated some hammering fun to happen during that week but it took some time to organise our supplies. As it turns out, leaving our hammering for a few weeks gave us the opportunity to make some lovely gifts for daddy for Father's Day.Feeling inspired by some blogs I have read recently I

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The girls and I are joining in the play fun over at Childhood 101's We Play today.My "treasure bug" has become a little unstoppable of late. We've had a brilliant time rummaging through "treasure shops" and shopping at the local school fetes to find new (to us) pre-loved play items. Have you ever gone treasure hunting like this? It's such a buzz to bring home your treasures and set them up for

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I've mentioned before that we are living in a reno house. The kitchen has been a quarter of the way done since I don't know when. This means no oven or stove so we've been using a two burner electrical stove top. I have to be creative when it comes to cooking.This was a meal which was able to be made with the appliances we do have and it was a creative activity for the girls as well. My little

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We've been experiencing some lovely weeks here so lots to smile about. (Even with sickness hanging around!) Here's my (very late) list of Smiley things to add to the growing list at Aspiring Mum....Hooked on Sesame Street?My girls and I share a great love for watching Sesame Street clips on Youtube. I'm sure we could sit for hours if nobody stopped us. We love the singing clips and the funny

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These three words have changed each and every day for our family.These three words bring a smile to my face.These three words are wonderful!And they are....Three yummy things How could you not love these three words?They tell you that what you're about to eat for morning tea, lunch or afternoon tea should taste delicious.You don't have to stop at one or two.And, you can't possibly argue or ask

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With the rain around in Brissy today we had lots of indoor play time to enjoy. The girls have taken to matching and dominoes games lately. We played them for most of the morning but I really wanted to give tile printing a go. I saw it here and here on one of my favourite blogs, Let the Children Play a little while ago and was keen to try it, especially since I knew we were well stocked up with

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One of our favourite regular places to visit is the library. We usually attend the story sessions once a week but it seems that we miss so many in winter with sickness. It will be really great to return again in spring but for now we will continue to go in and get our usual big pile of books to read. Our local library is a smaller one so there's a wonderful community feeling there.It doesn't seem

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I am joining in the Five for Friday fun over at Aspire Mum today. Here's my list of smiley things.....Baby LoveThe next best job to being a mum is definitely being an aunty to my beautiful niece and nephews. At the end of last week SJ, my gorgeous new nephew was welcomed into the world. Seeing all the pictures family have been sending has made me smile. I'm sure I'll smile even more though when

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We were given a huge piece of crisp white paper last week. I was very excited because I've been looking at prices of butcher's paper and large rolls of white paper and they're not cheap. (Remember getting the freebie rolls off the ends of the newpaper runs?) Together Miss M and I decided that the paper would be fantastic for tracing and painting bodies on. This turned out to be super fun but also

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The girls and I are playing along with everyone over at Childhood 101 We Play today.A big racquet for a little girlI really don't know what the real name of this game is. I always wanted one of those swinging tennis games when I was a kid - the ones tied to a long string on a pole. We always knew other kids who owned them so we had a great time using theirs when we were over for play dates.An

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This activity is a great listening skills activity disguised in fun! Today while we were at one of our favourite parks (George Scarlett Park) I asked Miss M if she would like to do an obstacle course. I got the answer I was ready to hear. Miss M is a huge fan of doing any gross motor activities such as climbing, riding her scooter, running and hopping so of course it was a big YES! This park has

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I am joining in the Five For Friday fun over at Aspire Mum today. I love this blog! Debbie gets me thinking about all kinds of topics and I love to read about the joy that comes from her beautiful family. Here's my list of five things that made me smile this week.....Sister LoveWe decided not to send Miss M to kindy this year for her year of being three. For us it is important for Miss M and Miss

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Take a look at our easy peasy threading activity from yesterday. We missed out on our Mums on the GO 'Art in the Park' morning due to Miss H still being sick so instead we made a little creative fun of our own at home. Must be fun, Miss M is giggling.Threading BraceletsYou will need....Pipe cleanersSome items to thread .....try small coloured patty pans, cut up straws, threading pom poms (found

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Sometimes when your days just seem to be all about the kids it's such a blessing to have one night in the week dedicated to being Date Night. No kids, no jobs to do, just you and your partner on a date.We have always loved Date Night although we haven't always kept up with doing them for one reason or another. Our Date Night is a Tuesday which back before kids would fit in with two for Tuesday

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We're experiencing a glorious warm day here in Brisbane today so with the weather just right the girls and I spent plenty of time enjoying the outdoors this morning.Miss M saw mud pies being made on Playschool earlier this week. This seemed to inspire her so off she went to get herself a pie tin from the recycling box and a spade from me before she headed straight for the veggie patch. She made

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This activity is a favourite for me because in theory it should be fairly clean so it's great when you don't feel like cleaning up a painty mess. The whole activity is done in a box or box lid.Do you have a fruit box lid, cereal box or tray lying around? Do you have acrylic paint?Do you have marbles?What about paper?If you have all these items then you have everything you need to do this fun

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We're on to week two of Miss M being sick (notice the red nose) and now that she's just starting to get over it, daddy is also sick and Miss H is starting to come down with it too. Time to put the thinking cap on for some extra indoor activities to shoo away any signs of boredom. Sometimes it's just good to fall back on a golden oldie. I imagine that many of you who read Busy Brissy Mum may

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You may think that we haven't been around this past week due to the lack of blog posts (sorry) but we have, it's just been a tricky week juggling one sick little girl. It's a crazy thing when they are sick but still happy enough to play. You just get caught at home so the sick germs aren't escaping to others. We were still able to squeeze some fun into the week and if you don't mind, I'm also

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This week has almost been like show and tell here at Busy Brissy Mum. To finish off the week I must show you my latest treasures found. It has been a long time since I've shared with you what the girls and I have discovered. More to come next week!Tuesday was a special morning out with my girl friends and their sweet girlies. To end the time together we ventured to Cradles2Crayons to see if there

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What does our art space look like? Jean from The Artful Parent would like to know. Her beautiful blog is one that I visit regularly to find creative ideas to use with my girls.My two girls are 3.9 and 20 months old so on one hand I have a "big girl" who likes to create "by herself". She draws and draws and draws while Miss H on the other hand also likes to draw but would draw on things other than

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There has been a buzz of excitement in some of our play recently because we've tried new activities I came across online. We have.......had a lovely tea party with Lemongrass Tea, thanks to an idea I found from Jenny at Let the Children Play. This was a a great way to use the lemongrass from our veggie patch. ...put pasta in our water trough (without water) and had fun pouring and mixing and

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Miss M and I are playing along with everyone over at Childhood 101 We Play this week. We've been playing a wonderful game that's continued right throughout the holidays. It has involved Miss M, myself and our tiny little friend Piglet. Piglet has cheekily been hiding all over the house for Miss M to find. Once she finds Piglet the game starts all over again. Where, oh where, oh where is Piglet?

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Holiday activities at the Ipswich Art Gallery last yearMy school holidays as a child were spent on outings with my Mum and siblings while Dad was off at work. My Mum didn't drive so we went everywhere by bus, which I guess made most outings more of an adventure. My Mum spent time before the holidays doing her homework, looking through the newspaper, local and Brisbane wide and through flyers to

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It feels like we're in quarantine here at the moment. It's the school holidays and there is so much frugal fun for kids out and about but due to sickness we've had to enjoy the indoors. It has however made me appreciate the space we live in more and think creatively about how we use it. The hallway door makes a wonderful puppet show area when the couch is put against it. The hall itself is a

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The girls and I are playing along with everyone over at Childhood 101 We Play once again. Birthdays are so much fun to plan and celebrate, especially when kids are involved! Miss M has been planning her 4th birthday since her 3rd so there's been much discussion going on about what she would like to do. Her birthday happens to be three months away which can seem like such a long time to wait! "

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Sometimes I see my own childhood very clearly in the play of my two little girls. My sister and I spent a lot of our play time creating concerts in the lounge room and almost every night before bedtime our girls treat their daddy and I to a very cute concert.More recently we've had lots of stay and play kinda days at home because of sickness so on this particular day we filled our morning with

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Here's an activity that might take you back to your own kindy or pre-school days. It is very much a nostalgic art activity for me as I loved my two years at pre-school and I loved doing apple printing when I was there. I was happy to find out last week that my girls also enjoy doing apple printing.We get our apples delivered in a farmers fresh box each week and lately they haven't been so tasty

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Would you like to do messy art activities like painting with your kids but don't have aprons to protect their clothing? Here's an idea that is easy to do.Cut the bottom out of a supermarket bag - that will become the bottom of the apronPut your child's head through the top end and their arms out the handle holesThere you have it - a plastic art apron!These bags were a little big on my girls so I

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Here is the final giveaway for my Busy Brissy Birthday celebrations. What fun it's been so far! This week's giveaway prize is a fantastic one. It's the latest CD from Justine Clarke - 'Great Big World'. Justine has certainly done it again with a great mix of 15 incredible songs.Enter this giveaway and you could possibly win the CD for your kids and if so, you too (just like me!) may be found

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Continuing with the birthday celebrations, here is the second Busy Brissy Birthday Giveaway. This time you have the chance to win a copy of the 'Maisy Playtime' DVD. It contains 10 episodes of the usual fun you'd expect from Maisy and her friends Tallulah, Charley, Cyril and Eddie. They'll have fun playing tennis, follow-the-leader and making a band plus a whole lot more playtime fun. We love

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The girls and I are playing along with everyone over at Childhood 101 for We Play again this week. We have plenty of toys for our girls to enjoy and most of them were found in what my new friend calls "designer shops" (Op Shops). Some toys were gifts from friends and family and of course we've also given some ourselves as gifts. We have toys that inspire play from construction to role play to

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Take a bucket Fill it with water Add a good amount of good quality dish washing detergent Take a fly swat Dip the fly swat in the detergent waterMove the fly swat back and forth vigorously through the airWatch the bubbles float and flyBeautiful bubbles*********This activity requires good supervision since it involves water in a bucket. You'll be amazed how many bubbles you get - some will be like

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Hip-hip Hooray...Busy Brissy Mum turns one today! Over the past year I have enjoyed sharing some of the ideas I have up my sleeve with you and I hope you've had as much enjoyment reading them...and maybe doing a few too.To celebrate my blogaversary Busy Brissy Mum will have a month of giveaways starting and ending each Thursday (although the first one starts today to help the celebrations begin

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The girls and I are playing along with everyone over at childhood 101 for We Play today.What beautiful sunshine we've had here this morning for the first day of Winter. We spent the morning playing in the garden so we didn't miss a minute of it. The girls got straight into play making cakes in the sand (Jessie Teddy seems to be having a lot of birthdays this week!), watering the vegies (and me!),

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We ended our dance amongst the roses outing on Friday with a trip to Harmony Gardens in Dutton Park (since the playground at New Farm Park was closed for renovations). This park has a lovely little playground which local kids helped to design. There are mosaic butterflies on the path and butterflies on the fence, tall clay art and decorative seats to sit on. The girls liked crawling in a tunnel

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We've had sniffles and snuffles all week here so it's been lots of home time for us to allow sick little bodies to get better. Today we went to the park for some outdoor fun as some events of yesterday made us realise that the girls had been cooped up for too long.Still keeping things quiet we went to the park and danced amongst the roses. Here are my beautiful little ballerinas in the gorgeous

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The girls and I are playing along in We Play with everyone over at Childhood101.com. "Blowing bubbles" "Chasing bubbles" "Catch them if you can"* * * * *"Bubbles bubbles in the airBubbles bubbles everywhereBlow them hereBlow them therePop...pop....pop"Come play at the Childhood101 We Play link up.

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With tissues in hand we headed outside for some much needed sunshine this morning. Even with sniffles and snuffles we still had fun.Easel painting is always a favourite with my girls no matter when it is set up and now that I have two girls there are times that I like to set up the painting a little differently to allow them to enjoy the experience together, side by side. We don't own two easels

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The girls and I are playing along with everyone else over at Childhood101 this week.I'm gonna ride on my scooterToot on my tooter - race on my racer And then I'm gonna do it againJustine Clarke - 'Great Big World' CDIf there is one thing this girl loves to do, it's ride her scooter. She would ride it anywhere, anytime but the best play fun comes when we take to the bike track down the end of our

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It is an incredible blessing to be able to blog. For me it brings together my past and the present as I enjoy life as a mummy. I love to encourage other parents by sharing the ideas I have learnt while working with kids and the new ideas I am trialling now in my role as "director of fun" with my own kids. Much of what you see on my blog is my kids just being kids, playing, doing art activities

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It's a great idea to have play dough stored in the fridge for whenever you need it. I like to use play dough for keeping Miss H (18mths) occupied at the kitchen bench while I cook the dinner.What kind of play dough do you have at your house now? Green, pink, blue, yellow? What if I told you that you could give it a new interesting scent? You can have your play dough smelling like all kinds of

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The girls and I are playing along with We Play again. You'll find lots of brilliant play ideas at www.childhood101.com .Don't you just love how much the mind of child aged 3+ explodes with endless creativity? We have a steady flow of ideas floating around this house which come from Miss M who likes to make up her own games. Today she created a game of "sisters" where Miss M, Miss H and I became

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This morning the girls and I were busy little bees making beautiful flowers for Mother's Day. It was a special time creating together, even Miss H gave them a go. We had a few different items to put on our flowers but the three main crafty things we used to make them were coloured and spotty patty pans, sticky tape and green bendy straws. The finished flowers look great and they only took a few

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Miss H enjoying time on the fortThis is the park you must go to if you have little boys. It's not that my girls don't like watching trains, they just don't love it that much. Our Mums on the GO group went for a play there yesterday and you could hardly peel the boys off the train line fence. They were absolutely taken with watching each and EVERY train go by and talking about them in detail -

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My girls and I are playing along with everyone over at Childhood101 once again. What fun!Miss M (3.5) has been playing shops a lot lately so I've been thinking for some time about surprising her with a little shop in our play room. She loves to be the "payer". I like the idea of changing the play environment every so often anyway to keep play varied, fresh and interesting.Each week a lovely

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Another long weekend - hooray! Three Daddy days - hooray! We had to do something special before the week hit again so off we went to Wynnum, down by the bay for a morning of family fun. How lovely it was to get out of the house together and enjoy everything Wynnum has to offer.This place is "crazy central"! At least that's what I'm calling it. There were people everywhere enjoying swims, water

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Last weekend was a long one and we were looking for some adventure that was big enough to call adventure but small enough that we could do with our littlies and one sore daddy (with a cracked rib!). We think we found the perfect thing to do.Up Brisbane's Mt Nebo is Jolly's Lookout. We got in the car and trekked up the mountain to enjoy a picnic morning tea there, together with my parents before

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A B C D E FG H I J KL M N O PQ R S T U VW X Y Z Well so far we've been on an alphabet hunt, a treasure hunt and a numbers hunt while out walking. This time we went on an alphabet sounds hunt.For this particular hunt we played the game of Eye Spy but with words that started with a particular sound. Miss M is not up to knowing what letters words begin with yet but she is interested in the sounds

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A park with a fence around it always gets the big tick of approval from me. It's a great start to an outing knowing that your littlies will be a whole lot safer. Neal Macrossan Park is one of the best parks I've been to with the girls and it came highly recommended by a friend who also has two littlies. It is fenced right the way around with a few entry gates for different parking spots but I

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Today I'm playing along with everyone who has joined in 'We Play' over at Childhood 101. It was a home day play day for us. The girls played all day in various games, sometimes together, sometimes separate but this was one game I enjoyed being a fly on the wall for. Two mummies with their babies out for a walk to the park (our swing set). The littlest stroller is our latest treasure find - just

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Our week began with a trip down memory lane for me. Many of my holidays growing up were spent on my Uncle and Aunty's farm on the Darling Downs. It was there that we city kids got a wonderful taste of the country which to this day we are so thankful for. Going back to the farm on Sunday almost felt like going to my second home. Much has changed there but some things remain the same. I was so

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I was encouraged this morning by http://www.teachmama.blogspot.com/ to do something for the Earth today. We kept our activity simple but it was lovely to care for our little corner of the World. It also felt lovely to be inspired by someone who lives in another corner, so far away from ours.We purchased two seedlings, one an Opal Basil and the other Tarragon, to plant in our new veggie patch. I

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I thought I'd share with you some of the little people who have come to our house. Miss M (3.5) is into drawing people at the moment. Some of the extra features you might spot are foreheads, chins and cheeks. They always make me giggle on the inside. I just love meeting these super special people!A lionOur family + Miss M's swimming classSelf portrait

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I have a new love in my life - my veggie patch! It's like I've given birth to another child. I've never seemed to have had a green thumb before which is quite sad really when you look back at the family heritage I have. My Grandad was a farmer and in his retirement he kept one of the best veggie patches I've ever seen. He also had a gorgeous flower garden that grew the most beautiful array of

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With a list in hand and a bag in the pram we were off on Friday afternoon for another hunt on our walk. This time our hunt was a treasure hunt.Earlier that day I made a simple list of items Miss M, Miss H (mostly Miss M) and I had to find. I kept it simple and honestly it was a little bit rigged (OK, a lot rigged!), since I wanted the items to be easily found this time around. I knew we had seen

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Why? is a question we get all day long from our Miss M (3.5). We get questions from the bizarre to the ridiculous and some are also quite serious but every question is important in her mind.Why does it rain?Why are they called Grandparents?Why is it hot?Why is it 8 o'clock?Why do you have bones inside?Why does the sun go down?Why? Why? Why?Even if it drives me a little crazy at times I've got to

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At long last we have our recycled art container in the playroom which is there for all sorts of creating fun. This is something I've wanted to put there since our move but the area is fairly small so I've had to come up with something big enough to store the items and small enough not to take up too much space. In keeping with the reduce, reuse and recycle theme I found the above pink container

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If you're crazy about doing collages with kids or you'd like to be, don't forget to keep your Easter egg wrappers. They make a great addition to your collage items collection all year round. Simply collect and store them in a snap lock bag, jar or other storage solution......and do a lot of walking afterwards!Now that's one collage item I'm personally happy to help collect!!! I hope you had a

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So you already know how much the girls and I like to step out for a daily walk to enjoy our surrounding neighbourhood and mixing it up ocassionally has seemed to be the key to help keep our walks fun and interesting. Sometimes we just walk and sometimes Miss M takes her scooter for a ride along the tracks. Sometimes I try and run for a little while (and I mean little - I'm getting there!) and

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