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July 8, 2019 GREYandGOLD

FREE Printable. Mammals. Use it for homeschooling activities or blow it up for a beautiful bedroom poster.

August 16, 2018May 29, 2019 GREYandGOLD

Top Tips for flying with a baby first time. A well-traveled mothers guide!​

October 26, 2019October 28, 2019 GREYandGOLD

Free Printable: Magnatile Toy Story Puzzle.

September 28, 2019September 28, 2019 GREYandGOLD

The long-term​ dangers of “sharenting”. (Posting photos and details of your child online).

July 8, 2019 GREYandGOLD

FREE Printable. Mammals. Use it for homeschooling activities or blow it up for a beautiful bedroom poster.

June 27, 2019June 27, 2019 GREYandGOLD

EGG MUFFIN RECIPE (Teaching your child how to make this recipe has so many surprising​ benefits than just “how to cook!”. Read to find out how…)

June 21, 2019June 21, 2019 GREYandGOLD

Sick of drawing on your eyebrows on every single day, yet scared to have them tattoed on for life? Try Microblading!

May 31, 2019June 19, 2019 GREYandGOLD

The 6 BEST sleep meditation stories to put any restless toddler to sleep… including mum! ZZZZZZZ

May 29, 2019May 29, 2019 GREYandGOLD

Toddler Science & Art: Pendulum Painting.

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Our WEEKS THEME is “TIME” and the way we MEASURE IT it. ⏱⏲⏰⏳🌳. . To kick off our “time” theme we made a sundial out of a straw and paper. . . MAKING THE SUNDIAL, HERE IS WHAT WE LEARNED: ⭐️Recognizing and counting to 12. ⭐️Numbers go clockwise direction around the clock with 12 at the top. . ⭐️Fine motor skills peeling number stickers and putting the dial together. 😍If you watch the video, you can see his super proud happy dance he done after it was completed. . .. . HOW A SUNDIAL WORKS, HERE IS WHAT WE LEARNED:. 🌞We set up our dial outside so it was positioned north and the straw cast a shadow on our dial. . ⏱I asked my toddler what time (number) the shadow was pointing to and then we discussed what we saw. . 🌄I explained how the sun rises every morning from the backyard (east) and goes over us and sets at the front of our house (west). While doing this, the shadows change direction and become longer in the morning and evening due to being lower. We used the shadows that start stretching over our backyard from the fence as an example. . . 🕵🏻‍♂️Every hour the shadow will be different on our dial so we got some play-doh to mark the time (and confirm our time with a real clock) We came back an hour later and the shadow had moved an hour. He was so interested and curious that it had moved and began picking up the dial to examine it more and spin the clock around (changing where the shadow landed on the dial). . . 🧠A fun critical thinking question that I asked him when a long afternoon shadow was approaching our sundial was “How will we tell the time if the shadow reaches our sundial?” He didn’t know so I put the dial in shadow to show him that you could not read the time unless there is sunlight. So we are really lucky that clocks use batteries and can stay inside. . . #stemeducation #steameducation #iteachstem #iteachsteam #stemday #steamday #stemnight #stemmom #stemforkids #learningthroughplay #stemandplay #kidsactivities #prek #playdiscovercreate #playtolearn #learningtocount #sundial #scienceexperiments #stemandplay_time #learnandplay #montessori #kidsactivities #invitationtolearn #invitationtocreate #playbasedlearning #playislearning
I made this little picture out of household items to celebrate National STEM day today! .. . 👀Check out my stories right now for all my favorite STEM activities we have done so far.👍🏻. We celebrated today by playing with our @magnatiles making massive towers, and a coding maze for one of our new robot toys. I was also looking at making a water wheel but we got stuck halfway through by not having all the pieces to complete it. 🤨 . I must say that I am really excited to learn along with my son all about STEM and trying out new activities as I come from a purely artistic side of mind and career- but did you know that many people like me prefer to call STEM “STEAM” to include Art because it’s all about discovering and creating ingenious ways of problem-solving, integrating principles and presenting information. By adding the elements of art to STEM based thinking, educators believe that students can use both sides of their brain—analytical and creative— to develop the best thinkers of tomorrow.. . So... there you go. . . . #NationalSTEMDay #NationalSTEAMDay #stemeducation #steameducation #iteachstem #iteachsteam #stemday #steamday #stemnight #stemmom #stemforkids
⭐️I hope every one is having an amazing day! I made this video for all of you to show my love and appreciation for you all. . HAVE YOU ENTERED THE GIVEAWAY YET? Look for the pink image on the next row down! 🥰 . ..PRIZES: ⭐️@magnatiles 19 piece #magnaqubix (A fantastic STEM educational toy for all ages!). ⭐️@grey_and_gold_blog 3 educational printable posters (Animals, insects, birds) . ⭐️ @ralphsgrocery $20 voucher with no expiry. ⭐️ @imax 2 tickets to the 3D movies playing at the @californiasciencecenter . . . . . Just a quick note on my promotion, it’s now open to international people but you will need to pay international postage for the @magnatiles. It will be up to you what you do with the RALPHS supermarket voucher and the location based IMAX tickets. . . #giveaway #magnaqubix #magnatiles #kidstoys #momlife #momsofinstagram #kidsactivities #thingstodowithkids .
Converting 2D @magnatiles shapes into 3D shapes, copying the shapes in our #magnaqubix set. . This is a great mathematic activity for young ones to learn 3D shapes. . . I can’t take credit for coming up with this activity. It was inspired by the amazing @resolvetoplay and we had to try it out (of course!!). May I just say that I am so inspired by so many of the things that moms are teaching their sons and sharing it on Instagram. I know it takes that little bit extra out of your day and I appreciate every post I see. I hope that some of my own creations can inspire other moms too. This is all good practice before I start my teaching career. I’m in the process of enrolling for a Masters of Education. Well, I better get off here and get back to my application letter, it’s not going to write itself!! . . . Oh and if you check my last post, I’m doing a giveaway in advance of my 1K followers. I have to do it early because I might be doing a lot of traveling soon and this way it will just be easier. . . . #stemtoys #magnatiles #stemeducation #playislearning #playtolearn #playbasedlearning
🎉Hooray. We want to celebrate my account coming up to its 1K of followers with my 🇺🇸&🇦🇺 followers (read details below) and I want to celebrate with you with a GIVEAWAY. I’m offering A cool STEM toy, $$$, movies and pretty educational posters. A little 🎁 for both your kid and YOU!! 😻. . ❤️❤️❤️A secret separate prize will be given out to whom ever becomes my actual 1K follower. ❤️❤️❤️ . 1. 👤 Follow @grey_and_gold_blog 2. ✒️ 👭 Tag at least one person who may find my account inspiring for kids learning through play ideas. (1 tag per comment). (This competitions aim is to bring more moms, homeschoolers and teachers to my account, not random people, thanks! ) 3. ☝🏻Tag an extra friend and get an extra entry. Try your best to tag a minimum of 3 friends. 4. 🥰 MORE WAYS TO GET BIG BONUS ENTRIES: . ⭐️Sharing my competition on your page. ⭐️ Share my competition in your stories. Be sure to tag @grey_and_gold_blog Or ⭐️Leave a ❤️ emoji on the last posts on my page. ⭐️Leave a comment on why you want to win/Why you love following my account. . . 🚫Entries close midnight on 17th of November 2019 and announced on the 18th of November in my stories. Winner must be 18 years+. . . 📬Winner must reply with their address before the end of business on the 21st of November to claim their prize. . . 📦🇺🇸NATIONAL SHIPPING in the USA only, so if you live overseas, you may want to give a USA address and have them mail you the prize themselves. . 🇦🇺Otherwise, if your from Australia, I can ship the magnatiles to you early December but the Ralph’s & IMAX voucher might be pretty useless to you unless your visiting the USA or can give them to USA friends. The IMAX 3D is only available at the California Science Museum location. IMAX Tickets expire 31 Jan 2020. . 📱This promotion is in no way sponsored or administered by, or associated with Instagram. . . . @magnatiles @ralphsgrocery @imax @californiasciencecenter #giveaway #giveawaytime #giveawaycontest #lamoms #losangeles #kidsactivities #stemtoys #playislearning #playtolearn #playbasedlearning #stemeducation
🧠STEM ACTIVITY ⭐️ I added some new triangular prism building materials made from cardboard paper to our toy rotation. I am a huge believer of toddlers #learningthroughplay and this introduced lots of maths and engineering concepts. . . I’m really keen to start building more STEM activities into my sons education because I honestly believe this will equip him with the skills needed in the innovative future. . . First my son helped me fold up the paper that I had pre-folded so he could see how the shape takes place. It was a long rectangle made of three squares of equal sides and a little extra for sticky taping together- see next image. . . The first activity was stacking them on top of each other, creating a pattern which eventually made a bigger triangle. It was quite mesmerizing watching the triangles fit into each other. We found as we put more on top, the more pressure pushed the bottom end ones out but once they were supported, it was quite strong. . Then we tried making a bridge. We noticed that our @magnatiles would not sit securely on top and fell off if we just payed one layer of triangles on the table with the points in the air but found our paper rectangles were stronger at holding more weight if we did the AB pattern. (🔼🔽🔼🔽) . . Once we knew this was able to support the bridge strongly then we were able to make multiple levels, creating a huge tower. . . And lastly, we enjoyed making a pretty star flat on the surface, inspired by some ideas we have done with magnatiles in the past. . (Ooops... The photos are a bit out of order) . . #stemtoys #stem #stemeducation #stemforkids #stemlearning #stemlearning ##stemfortoddlers #prekactivities #toddleractivities #learningthroughplay #recycleandplay #stemweek #engineeringstudent #playdiscovercreate #playtolearn #playislearning #everydayplayhacks #everydayplayhacks #kmartplaytray

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