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Falling in love with Messy Play

Hello Everyone! We’ve noticed so many new families joining our community and we love it! Welcome!!! Thank you for having us along your play journey. I thought it might be good time to come on here and share our story. The path we took to discover messy sensory play. Admittedly, I fell into messy play…

Slime Recipe (for Halloween or any other time of year!)

Ah…slime, it’s either you love it or hate it! lol Which team are you on??? We try to make our slimes a putty consistency which makes for both my kids to enjoy playing with it. My older one, isn’t one for sticky and gooey things but enjoys playing around with this one! Here’s an easy…

Why do we love playing with dough so much???

Hello, Mommies and Daddies! Sharing with you this week about: Fine Motor Skills & Practical Life One of the biggest things messy/sensory play addresses is the development of fine motor skills. Why is the early development of fine motor skills important? It is because the success of a child being able to do practical life…

Gross Motor Skills & Spatial Awareness

Hello, Mommies and Daddies! Sharing with you this week about: Gross Motor Skills, & Spatial Awareness Messy /Sensory Play isn’t all fine motor skills (though isn’t it awesome how our little ones develop these skills through having fun?)! Did you observe how our kids dance in the middle of play, or when they presented with…

What’s all the fuss around sensory play???

Hello, Mommies and Daddies! Sharing with you this week about: Sensory Play & Brain Development It seems to be all over social media these days. What is all the fuss around sensory play? Why is it important?Sensory Play is ANY play that engages the senses of sight, smell, touch, taste, and sound. So it covers…

Play & Speech Development

We often talk of sensory play and how we love it so much, and here is one of the reasons. Sensory experiences give us parents an opportunity to introduce new words through play when we experiment, create, investigate and explore. Learning new words through play helps in understanding the words’ true meaning over just repeating…

Summer Fun for TERM 2

Another term is well and truly underway here at Messy Baby Play! Thank you to all those that took advantage of our early bird sale and availed of our term bundles. This term is all about Summer & Nature! We are taking inspiration from the season in each messy play session. So expect sunshine, rainbows,…

We have parties now, hooray!!! And a collaboration too!

Our Children’s milestones, especially birthdays, are such great things to celebrate! One of the highlight’s of our year so far is launching Messy Baby Play Parties!!! Although parties and events are good fun, there’s also a lot to organize. So many details and moving parts are planned and finalized just to get things the way…

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