This is one of my toddler's absolute favourite activities, and it's one we've done many, many times. We freeze her small plastic animals in ice cubes, and then 'rescue' them by melting the ice and setting them free! My daughter is always asking if we can put her animals in ice cubes - on more than one occasion, I've gone to look for some ice cubes to make a drink, and I've opened the freezer to find a load of plastic animals staring back at me! It's actually pretty great to have a fun activity ready to go at the drop of a hat - especially one…

Play-Doh is one of my toddler's favourite activities. We usually play with it during her baby sister's nap time, as I'm still not quite comfortable letting the baby play with Play-Doh. So nearly every morning at the same time, the Play-Doh comes out! Usually we pretend to make biscuits - she loves to put them on the 'baking tray' (the plastic moulding tray) and put them into the 'oven' (the cardboard box!). But sometimes something fun will happen naturally and we like to go with it! This time, I made a little penguin out of some of the mixed up Play-Doh. After a few months of playing…

My toddler loves playing with Duplo, and usually she's happy to get on with it on her own. It allows her to be creative and come up with her own designs and models, so if she's busy building something cool, I try not to interfere too much. But sometimes, it's fun to play together on something a bit more structured. This time, we built a model of our house out of Duplo. We made sure we included every room in our house, including the living room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. She even told me we needed to build a separate office, like we have in our garden!…

I've seen lots about aquafaba online, so I thought we'd have a play with it. This was a fun activity that both my toddler and baby could get involved with together, which was really nice! If you're not sure what aquafaba is, it's basically the liquid that you get in the bottom of a tin of chickpeas. Sounds like a really strange thing to play with, I know, but when you whip it up, it goes all bubbly - it ends up looking a lot like bubbly washing up liquid water! Whipped aquafaba is usually used in cooking as a vegan egg replacer (I've often seen it…