Books as a Tactile Experience for Babies and Toddlers
Adventure in a Box is happy to participate in the Sensory Play Challenge Week Blog Hop. Please, visit other participating bloggers for more ideas on sensory play. Each day will bring a new sense into focus. The first one is tactile. Nowadays it is well-known that...
How to Make Garden Markers Rocks
Looking for a simple, cheap and cute solution for making vegetable markers? Try garden marker rocks! The post contains Amazon affiliate links for your convenience. Last week, as we were planting our garden, we once again faced the question of how to label our...
Spring Scavenger Hunt for Toddlers
Adventurous spirits fly high in our family; we love treasure hunts. An Easter hunt is a must - last year I had to climb on the roof of our house to get my biggest egg. But other holidays are not a complete write-off for organizing a small treasure hunt with a map or...
Watercolour Painting with Toddlers
When I was growing up, all I had for art supplies were a box of gouache paints and a scattering of pencils that broke whenever I tried to sharpen them . It was not because my mom did not care to develop my creativity – it was just life in a small city in early...
Books to Read Before Going to the Zoo
Few children do not like animals. Our Budster is no exclusion, and we have been encouraging his interest whole-heartedly with a variety of colourful books (from Mommy) and many captivating animal sounds (from Daddy). Once in a while, we would also take a trip to the...
Painting a Cutting Board
My one-year-old son and I were preparing to make his first gifts for Mother's and Father's Days. After browsing through my drawers of craft supplies, I came back with some paints and... a blank wooden cutting board. When I was a girl, I painted a lot of utilitarian...
How to Make a Viking Play Tent
Camping under the stars is still a distant prospect for our son, but for now a tent offers him infinite possibilities for adventure. It can become a traveller's camp or a bear's den, an Inuit's igloo or a Viking's tent. It can also provide shade for sunny outdoors and...
How to Make Fairy Furniture from Twigs
Learn how to make fairy furniture from twigs! Made from natural materials and with very simple tools, it's a fun project for older kids and adults. In the previous post, I wrote about making the tree house. I planned it as a playground for Budster's birds, but it was...
DIY Project: How to Make a Fairy Toy Tree House
For a quirky Waldorf-inspired uptake on a dollhouse, make a fairy tree doll house for kids from branches, wood and other natural materials! Lately, my son spent a long time, watching birds out of the window, and so he found some little bird figurines in his Easter...
Birds: Games and Crafts for a Toddler
After studying our inspiring book on birds, Birds of a Feather, it seemed natural for us to play a few games with birds. Budster is very fond of birds at the moment, and if he takes after us, there is a good chance he will stay this way. His favourite birds are...
Birds of a Feather: Book Review
Since Sunday, we have been starting and finishing our days with the same book – Birds of a Feather by Bernadette Gervais and Francesco Pittau. This gorgeously illustrated book won Budster's heart from the first look. It comes to us from France, where the talent of...
Russian Books for Small Children
Some of them are more than twenty years old, and some are new. At first, I preferred those which pages were white and fresh, carefully chosen and delivered from overseas, but as Budster brought me my old books, without bright illustrations, but loved now by the second...