A Day of Rainbows and Good Luck! | Small Potatoes
“My two favourite colours of the rainbow are gold and leprechaun.” ~Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me Today we are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with a whole lot of colour! We playe…| Small Potatoes
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.” ~Carl Jung If you give a child a sandbox, he will play in it. If you give a child a sandbox equipped with ALL kinds of materials for play possibilities, he will create worlds the likes of which we’ve …| Small Potatoes
“Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.” ~Christina Georgina Rossetti Children love to observe bugs…plain and simple. So this week, we all worked together to build the biggest bug attraction our backyard has ever seen: a bug hotel! It is full of nooks and crannies for insects and spiders to hide …| Small Potatoes
“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods. It …| Small Potatoes
“Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels. But their magic sparkles in nature.” ~Lynn Holland It all started with a little walk into the woods… The warm May sunshine filtered down through the big trees and the smalls were armed each with a basket for nature’s treasures and a big sense of adventure. They each …| Small Potatoes
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ~T.S. Eliot Cars, cars, cars. It’s all about the cars these days. Drifting, shifting, crashing, skidding, jumping and…rallying. My son is 8 yrs old and fascinated by the world of rally cars. Ken Block is his favourite professional rally car …| Small Potatoes
Books are far more than just a cute story for kids. You can explore them. Stretch them. Learn from them. There is so much possibility in books. At Small Potatoes, we like to bring science, literature and art together to form one great big afternoon of learning. Today we are diving into A House For Hermit Crab. If …| Small Potatoes
Babies. Toddlers. So often we exclude these tiny humans from the messy, sensory sort of play because we think they aren’t capable, they aren’t big enough, or because we think they won’t really benefit from it. Well this is all malarkey. Babies and toddlers love this sort of play. They are capable of this sort of …| Small Potatoes
Wise words, Picasso. I think you and I could have been great friends. I mean, I got some truly incredulous looks when I pulled out the bucket of sidewalk chalk at the wading pool today. Why in the world would I bring my chalk swimming? Well, I think the question is more like, why not? A …| Small Potatoes
“It’s a secret no one is telling? Why in your garden, surely they’re dwelling! No need for journeying, seeking afar: Where there are flowers, there fairies are!” ~Cicely Mary Barker Around this time last year, my two littlest children and I built a little garden in the backyard…just for them to play in. The …| Small Potatoes
“My two favourite colours of the rainbow are gold and leprechaun.” ~Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me Today we are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with a whole lot of colour! We playe…| Small Potatoes
