Fab Mums

After escaping the huge heat wave that hit Southern Europe last week, with temperatures rising to the high thirties, here we are back in sunny Sardinia. Yesterday we enjoyed a day at the beach and today it is business as usual. The little one is at his morning summer camp on the beach and I [...]

These are only a few of the beautiful prints and original artwork for children available from Etsy shop Pescerosso.  The illustrations are by a talented young Italian born and Stockholm based artist, Laura Di Francesco who specializes in children illustrations. Her ability to capture animals on the move and other natural creatures mixing elements of [...]

The Design Museum in London has an interesting workshop coming up in April to coincide with the current exhibition, Brit Insurance Designs of the Year. The theme of the workshop is transport hence the title: Slide, Glide and Ride. Children between 5 and 11 are invited to express their creativity coached by industry experts to create [...]

What I love about London is that if you look well enough you find plenty of free activities to do with kids like the fabulous workshop for children aged between 6 and 12 offered by the Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA).
The Make It – Magical workshop is inspired by the gallery’s current exhibition Mystery, Magic [...]

The Tate Modern is one of our favourite places, whenever we are in London we wander down to the South Bank and have an early morning visit so we avoid the really busy time. In view of an imminent trip to London I was looking around the Tate Modern website for any interesting exhibitions and [...]

Science doesn’t need to be boring or difficult, it can be colourful and artistic and that’s exactly what the OKIDO magazine for children aged 2 to 7 is all about.
Beautifully illustrated this kids mag focuses on art and science by developing science ideas and notions through play, art projects and experiments that are both educational [...]

I took my 5 yearl old boy to the Natural History Museum yesterday, It was actually our second visit but he enjoyed it much more this time because he’s that little bit older and also going through the dinosaur phase. We had a lot of fun guessing which bones bolonged to which dinosaur and then reading the [...]