Busy Busy Learning brings you the wonders of learning through stories, arts and play. Heavily inspired by books and the natural world you’ll find seasonal ideas including stories, activities and crafts to share with your children, grandchildren and classes.
Latest YouTube Videos
Macrame Christmas Candy Cane Craft Tutorial
Iris Folding Papercraft Free Christmas Robin Pattern and Tutorial
You can find the free template in this blog post. This would be a great craft for Christmas.
Most Recent Freebies Added
Oh Christmas Tree Iris Folding Pattern
You can find the outline to go with this here.
Audio Story: Tinsel and the Christmas Spider
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Most Popular Posts
Wow it’s been a busy year on the website for audio player information. Tonieboxes and Yoto Players have featured heavily. If you have any specific questions about audio players please feel free to drop me a message in the Facebook group.
Toniebox and Yoto Players Top Posts
- Tonie Box or Yoto Player? This post will help you decide which audio player may be best for your child.
- Yoto Club Changes: New Explorer, Collector and Collector Plus Review – big changes are coming!
- Tonie Characters Sale – New 2023 Tonies. This post gave an update of the latest Tonies news – a new 2024 post is coming soon.
- Free Tonies Content for Toniebox Creative Tonies.
- Free Yoto Content for Yoto Player and Yoto Mini – Make Your Own Cards.
Iris Folding Finds
I’m always on the look out for for iris folding resources. Here’s a few that we have that are good value:
Top Posts so far in 2024
- Iris Folding – Free Templates and Patterns – more patterns to be added in 2024.
- Meet the Mum Behind the Maker – Mel from My Story Stones Rock. I’ve recently updated this post for those who wanted to know where to get their own rock blanks from.
- Water Play – Dream Gardens for Kids. Perfect for indoors and outdoors.
- People Who Help Us – Early Years Play. A post to give you lots of ideas for this brilliant topic.
- Phonics – What is Phase 2 SATPIN? This post is a great place to get an understanding of phonics and tips to help your child/ren.
- Mud Kitchens Galore – Dream Gardens for Kids. The perfect play for any time of year.
Phonics Blog Series
Phonics is a real passion of mine and one of my favourite things to teach when I worked in early years. It is one part of a wide range of skills children need to be able to read and write. However, it comes with plenty of jargon and for many of us we were never taught it ourselves at school.
This series is ideal for parents looking to support their children with their phonics learning or planning to home school, but equally perfect for student teachers. Check out the series here.
Garden Series Posts
Are you looking for a little garden inspiration? Would you like your children to be able to explore the outdoors and enjoy learning through play? This is the series for you. Click on the titles below to head to that blog post
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