Fab Mums

The active kids campaign last year has donated to many schools and groups in local communities and the 2010 campaign intends to do just the same and more. Thanks to shoppers at Sainsbury’s, who simply collected vouchers, then donated them to schools and groups taking part, kids of all ages have benefited. Watch the video [...]

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 [...]

When it comes to educating children about recycling there is no better way than a playful environment, which can be paired with a reward system to keep the interest going. I have posted before about the initiative in place at my son’s school about Capitan Eco point system for recycling, a very clever initiative that [...]

The number one wish on my son’s long list to Santa was a camera. As a first reaction I thought  that a digital camera to a 6 year old was a little extravagant  and it definitely risked to be a short lived present  too so I was tempted to give him my first digital camera, [...]

Visiting a museum can be a very dispersing experience for kids who have so much to take in all at once, that’s why museums’ visits for children should be channeled to specific sections for them to take the information having fun and focus their attention to an area that they will remember. The backpacks available [...]

Museums have really become children friendly in recent years and not just the usual family oriented museums that have always appealed to children, but more traditional national treasures like the British Museum now offer specific trails and explorer backpacks for more enjoyable family visits.  
The British Museum has in place a series of facilities for [...]