Fab Mums

These foreign language alphabet blocks from Modern Lola are a great idea for young children who are exposed to a second (or even a third) language. Perfect 44 mm wooden cubes handcrafted with attention to details and coloured with attractive bright and child safe paints, they are ideal to be handles by little hands. The [...]

I love educational toys so I couldn’t help getting excited at the sight of this wooden jigsaw puzzle where each piece represents a different county in Britain. What a fantastic way to learn geography this is. Each jigsaw is cut and painted by hand in a rural part of Sri Lanka in a fair trade [...]

Teaching children to tie their shoe laces requires patience, practice and a lot of praise.  There are various ways to teach how to tie a bow, so it is important to decide which method to follow and stick to it or the child will get confused and find it more difficult than necessary. Once you [...]

Learning to tell the time is an important milestone for young ones, even more so nowadays that kids are equally exposed to analogue and digital clocks, which it might be a tad confusing.

I have looked at fun ways to practice to read the clock and I found a great online resource. Timemonsters is a fun [...]

Raising a bilingual child is not just about teaching the command of the minority language, but also about giving exposure to the cultural background of that language, which is fundamental for a correct use of the language itself. This is one of the biggest problems with translations; often something is lost in the process when [...]

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 [...]

I just had to share the fantastic initiative in place in my son’s school in conjunction with the town administration.
School children are introduced to Capitan Eco the recycling pirate and each is given a booklet packed with comics, recycling facts, quizzes and games to get acquainted with the subject matter. All primary schools in our town [...]