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British early years educator in Bucharest. Play-based English learning for little ones. New sensory tray every Saturday 🌿
Blue rice, glass jars, tubes long enough for a proper pour.
Set this one up for week two of I See Colours.
Watched them test every container for how fast it could empty. Some poured in seconds. Some took real patience. Nobody needed telling which was which.
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The Learning Nest
Learn • Play • Grow
I think tracing letters in a paint bag beats tracing them on paper, and I’ll stand by that one.
Three reasons this mess-free trick works so well: there’s no pencil grip pressure yet, a wrong line just smooths away with one swipe, and the colour alone holds their attention longer than a worksheet ever does.
Have you tried this one at home?
The Learning Nest. Learn. Play. Grow.
11/08/2026
Your toddler has four words, and suddenly everyone has an opinion. 🗣️
It’s one of the most common pieces of unsolicited parenting advice out there: "Oh, it’s just because you speak two languages to them. You should drop one."
It usually comes from a well-meaning place, but the actual research tells a completely different story.
Bilingual children reach major speech and language milestones at the exact same pace as monolinguals. Their total vocabulary matches their peers when you count both languages together, and a real delay looks identical in one language or two. Dropping a language "just in case" isn't the fix - it's just a myth.
đź“Ś Save this post for the next time someone tries to blame the languages.
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Set this one up for the first tray of our I See Colours theme. Red confetti, red toys, and a stack of I Spy cards tucked in for the reveal.
Watched them dig through, calling out what they found, English words landing right alongside the discovery. Nobody was being tested. They just wanted to know what was hiding in there.
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Worksheets have their place in early years. This isn’t it.
Give a child the same word through movement, through their hands, through something they can touch and pour and sort, and it sticks in a way a page never quite manages. Nobody’s filling in a blank here. They’re just playing, and somewhere in that play, the word arrives on its own.
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Caught him mid-sort today. Every colour, sorted correctly, and he’s still learning half these words in English.
That’s not a coincidence. Take the pressure off, and repetition stops feeling like repetition. It just feels like play.
Tag a parent who’s looking for ways to build English vocabulary that don’t feel like drilling.
The Learning Nest. Learn. Play. Grow.
04/08/2026
Your child points at a red ball and says “ball.” Not “red ball.”
Colour words feel like they should come easily, they’re everywhere. But naming the object always comes first. The colour comes later, and that’s exactly on schedule, not behind it.
Swipe through for what’s actually going on, and what to watch for instead of the word itself.
Have you noticed your little one sort colours before being able to name them?
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This one smelled like vacation before anyone even touched it.
Lemon. Lime. Orange. A little bit of island in the middle of Bucharest.
This exact tray, and the full lesson plan that goes with it, is already built into Nest Weekly. Comment PLAY and we’ll add you to the waitlist ahead of launch.
The Learning Nest. Learn. Play. Grow.
Didn’t plan to build a thriving school. Just wanted to share my love of play-based learning.
Here we are.
What did you do a while ago that turned into more than you meant it to? Let us know below.
The Learning Nest.
Learn. Play. Grow.
Who said sensory play is only for toddlers? Our 5-7 year olds benefit from it just as much.
This week our summer camp class turned into a dino dig site. Vinegar in pipettes, a bicarbonate dinosaur egg, and a lot of concentrated dripping until it finally cracked.
Nobody was thinking about English while they did it. That’s usually when the most sticks.
Try it with your “big kid” and tell us we’re wrong.
What’s the last “toddler” activity your school-age child still loved? Let us know below.
The Learning Nest.
Learn. Play. Grow.
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