Play and Learn Everyday

* This post contains affiliate links. * As a Play Therapist one of the first things that I needed to prepare was my Play Therapy tool kit, which is basically just all of the toys that I bring i...

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It has been a very long time since I've posted an update and that is because I have been very busy training to be a Play Therapist.  I am about halfway there, having recently completed the Post ...

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We recently went to Disneyland Paris for our October Half Term Break from school and had the most wonderful time!  Of course some things are different from the last time that we visited Disneyla...

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We recently celebrated another birthday with a difference as Ivy turned 7 during full lockdown and we had to find a creative way to celebrate!  We decided to go for a Zoom video call party, but ...

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Back in October we celebrated Ethan's 9th birthday, at the time the virus numbers were a bit lower and so here in the UK we were allowed to have up to 6 people gather indoors (the 'rule of six')....

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We have been having fun at home together playing some family games that we have been sent to review from Spinmaster.  We were very kindly sent Grouch Couch, Beat the Parents and Hedbanz.  These...

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Well here we are in September and things are continuing to look like the best plan is to stay at home and only see people in our accepted bubbles (obviously this varies by where you live).  For ...

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It is almost time for our children to return to school!  I know that this is a sensitive topic to talk about as every family is in their own unique position and is choosing to do what is best fo...

https://www.playlearneveryday.com/2020/06/tips-for-returning-to-school.html

We are very excited to have received a package from Playmobil with a selection of the new series of EverDreamerz Comic City toys to review.  We received 2 of the surprise boxes and all 5 of th...

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This month as part of the Blogger Board Game Club with Asmodee we have been playing Dixit .  It is a really unique storytelling  and guessing game which is unlike any of our other games and wa...

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We have just been sent the most adorable new series of Cutetitos to play with.  They are the Cutetitos Fruititos ! If you aren't familiar with them already, they are the sweetest little collecti...

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This month we are playing BrainBox - The World as part of the Blogger Board Game Club with Asmodee . This item was gifted for review BrainBox - The World is a great little game that is per...

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As part of the Asmodee Blogger Board Game Club this month we have been sent the game Crazy Eggz!  It's a great game for getting active and silly during our days at home! This post contain...

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We have been sent a few games from Spinmaster to keep us busy as a family while we're all at home.  It's so great to have this extra family time together and we absolutely love board games, so ...

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We have been sent a couple of fantastic educational games from Learning Resources that will be the perfect addition to our home learning days.  One is for English and one is for maths (and they'...

https://www.playlearneveryday.com/2020/05/educational-games-for-reading-and-maths.html

We have been using this reward method for a few years now, but not really very consistently.  We get back into it when there is something specific that I would like to encourage the children to ...

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This month we have been playing Codenames from Asmodee as part of their Blogger Board Games Club.   I actually think that I might have misread the information when I chose it as I thought ...

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It should be the final day of our two week vacation at Disney World in Florida.  Of course that isn't happening, and I have to say that the kids have actually been really good about the whole th...

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When Ethan was little he went through a phase of waking up with bad dreams, and I realised that he was thinking and worrying about things that had happened throughout the day.  That's when we st...

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I'm not quite sure the reason, but this week has seemed more difficult for our family.  The big emotions that the children are dealing with all seem to be coming to the surface, so I have been l...

https://www.playlearneveryday.com/2020/04/ways-to-explain-and-explore-emotions.html

It's the last day of school before Easter holidays!!!  Well, it's not that exciting now is it?  We were actually going to be sneaking off a day early and should have been on our way to Florida ...

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Now that we're all staying home for Easter, I started thinking that we might buy a few different things for the kids' Easter baskets.  Probably less chocolate for them (more for me) and more foc...

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Now more than ever we need to stand with small businesses to try to support them through these difficult times and Etsy have a Stand With Small campaign doing just that.  And as we are all home...

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Now that we have been home learning for a little while we are really getting into our routine and enjoying our days. (Here are our full schedules and resources for playing and home learning .)  ...

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We are new to the world of Bakugan, but I have to say that Ethan is hooked already!  It's like a way to bring together shape changing toys and card collecting and put them together in a game, it...

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