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 [...]

Recently I have been following my son’s progress with English literacy using his Italian schoolwork as a reference point. This works well especially for numeracy and science subjects, but when it comes to learning reading and writing it takes a little more work. I decided to introduce this immediately after Christmas when he began to [...]

It is carnival time in Italy, so between carnival parades and kids’ costume parties we’ve had very little time for our weekend crafts.  Today’s craft is not our latest work, but it is one of those things you make for fun and ends up being around for years.  We made the letter holder with paper flowers in [...]

Finally we got to watch the Disney movie Earth and we loved it. The film takes you through an astonishing journey on earth following the lives of three extraordinary animal families and their hardship to survive on our planet through climate change. The remarkable stories of the polar bears making their journey in search for [...]

There are some bedtime stories we keep going back to time and time again. The Tiger Who Came to Tea is one of them. It was a huge success when my then 3 year old son received it as a present from his grandmother. The simple fantastical story and the old fashion illustrations were such big [...]

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 [...]