About Melitsa
Melitsa Avila is a stay at home mum raising three full of fun boys in various countries as a military mum. She shares her thoughts and ideas on keeping Early years playtime fun for both parents and children www.play-activities.comWebsite: http://play-activities.com/blog
Posts by Melitsa
Toddler Eggshell Silhouette Craft
By Melitsa on February 18, 2011
Silhouettes are a great format for capturing your child and make for fun gifts. This version of silhouette art uses eggshells and a little creativity!
Materials: Lids of empty shoe boxes, collected empty and washed eggshells, white glue, pencil, scissors {read more}
By Melitsa on February 18, 2011
Make a Winter Sensory Box
By Melitsa on December 22, 2010
A sensory box is a container that you can put different items into for stimulating your child’s senses. Its similar to a sensory table, (like you may have seen in your child’s school or day care center). A sensory box can be any size that {read more}
By Melitsa on December 22, 2010
ABC and 123 Place-mats for Kids!
By Melitsa on October 13, 2010
Place-mats are easy and fun to make. Choosing to use the alphabet and numbers will keep your mat fresh and interesting as they provide good starting points for so many activities. It’s also a fun way of reinforcing the alphabet and number knowledge {read more}
By Melitsa on October 13, 2010
Make a Fall Leaves Plate
By Melitsa on September 30, 2010
With the nights drawing in and leaves tumbling, it must be Fall. As a season there are so many things happening and an abundance produced. It’s one of the best seasons for collecting and discovering objects in nature especially since most are tumbling {read more}
By Melitsa on September 30, 2010
How to Create a Simple Miniature Garden
By Melitsa on September 5, 2010
Create a simple miniature garden with these easy steps.
Ingredients for a Miniature Garden
Use a tray, shallow baking tray or any item with sides to contain soil.
Collect lots of ingredients to make the garden such as soil, rocks, moss, twigs, dried {read more}
By Melitsa on September 5, 2010
Wooden Spoon Puppet Craft
By Melitsa on August 20, 2010
Pretend play is always a big hit with children. Look no further than your kitchen for inspiration! Most everyone has a wooden spoon, but if not? Improvise!
Wooden Spoon Puppets
Materials
Scraps of material
Cotton wool
Wooden spoon(s)
Tape
Create
Wrap {read more}
By Melitsa on August 20, 2010
How to Make Window Clings with Kids
By Melitsa on July 31, 2010
Brighten up any window with these easy to make Window clings. The kids get to design and make something important to them that goes on their window or any window in the house.
Materials
simulated liquid leading (Gallery Glass)
Leading blank paper (Plaid- {read more}
By Melitsa on July 31, 2010
Make a Watermelon Noise Maker for Seed Spitting Week!
By Melitsa on June 24, 2010
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week is June 24th through June 27th! This fun noise maker craft is the perfect way to use those extra seeds we know you’ll have lying around after indulging in all the yummy watermelon that’s in season.
Watermelon {read more}
By Melitsa on June 24, 2010
Easy Mother’s Day activity
By Melitsa on May 11, 2010
Mother’s day crafts and activities typically need adult involvement so the activity and the final product comes as no big surprise. We get the warm fuzzy feeling because our little ones made it for us but we know it’s coming. This is an {read more}
By Melitsa on May 11, 2010
5 Overlooked Toddler Activities
By Melitsa on April 19, 2010
Toddlers are fiercely independent but totally need us.
This problem becomes the push pull of our lives. How much do we help and how much do we let them try for themselves?
From 12months to 24months we have a bundle of energy and emotion. They are {read more}
By Melitsa on April 19, 2010
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