After the success of our peruvian drums, we built a colourful xylophone with some old pencils, polystyrene and cardboard. It is very easy to make and you can easily find all you need for this …
I love this hardwood alphabet butterfly puzzle. A colourful puzzle made of environmentally friendly hardwood, each piece has been individually handcrafted and painted with bright child-safe non toxic paint. Suitable for children as young as …
The British Council website www.britishcouncil.org/kids.htm is a great resource for games, songs and learning to read exercises to help your children learn through paly. The website is very well laid out with sections on games, stories, songs, listen read …
What a great idea this pop up travel gym, ideal for picnics in the park or on the beach when you are on holiday. The mat keeps the sand off and it can be easily …
Luca was just three months old the first time he travelled on a plane. It wasn’t a real holiday, but one of our usual trips to London. He was absolutely fine. We never go travelling …
On Saturday we had really good fun at the carnival parade. Most schools in our town took part, we all had to follow the theme of OLD TRADES, our school represented the old millers. We …
I had promised Luca we would bake a cake after school. A promise is a promise and anybody familiar with 5 year olds would know children don’t forget a promise. I picked him up from …
I love Julia Donaldson’s books, the way they are written in rhyme make it very easy for children to follow and after a few times you read them together they start to learn the lines …
Finding Nemo was Luca’s favourite animated movie when he was two, so the enthusiastic new parents that we were we decided to surprise him by building him a Nemo cot. My husband drew the plans; …
Inevitably when you move house there is a piece of furniture that doesn’t fit the new home, but cannot bring yourself to get rid of it. When we moved last summer I had an old …
If you are not yet a yoga fan, what a better time to start a class than during pregnancy, yoga is in fact renowned to be one of the best forms of exercise for women …
Green Eggs and Ham and Cat in the Hat are two of my son’s favourite books and mine too. Dr Seuss books have helped many generations learning to read since the 1950s. The rhyme, rhythm …
What a fantastic idea to carry your child without to break your back. The Hipseat is just a back supporting belt with an integral foam shelf where the child seats on so that you don’t …
Lately we have been consuming large quantities of ice cream so we are left with so many ice cream tabs to transform into useful things. I have already shared the storage containers decorated with comics, …
Here are some delicious ideas from the web to celebrate
Easter. The Easter chick muffins by Birds
on a Cake are almost too cute to eat! The vanilla sugar cakes by Nish Whips up
a dish are as …
Looking around for Halloween songs I landed on a fantastic website Science with Me where you will find songs, science movies, games and fun experiments for kids to learn about science. Whilst I was attracted …
