Felt Fortune Cookies
With Chinese New Year fast approaching why not have a go at making these great felt fortune cookies. These were simple and satisfying to make and I made them with my 6 year old daughter who really...
View ArticleFairy Cookies
In our playroom we have an inch high door on the skirting board where the fairies live and come out to play when we’re asleep. Our little girls love to leave pictures and messages for them and...
View ArticleHello Chicken!
My eldest is really into sewing things at the moment and loves playing with my sewing machine, but it’s quite difficult to think of things a 6 year old can make by themselves without me doing lots of...
View ArticleThe Bad Tempered Ladybird
Since today is World Book Day, I thought it would be nice to do some book related activities with my youngest. She’s loved books from a very young age and The Bad Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle is a...
View ArticlePlaymais
Do you have playmais? Our little ones love it, we bought a massive box years ago and it lasts forever. It’s great to have a material that they can manage fairly easily on their own and not get into too...
View ArticleEarth Day – Seed Paper Earths
I thought it would be nice to do some Earth Day activities with my children this year and had previously seen little earth gift tags on Etsy which I used for inspiration. We started by soaking some...
View ArticleSummer Bucket List
For the last few years, we’ve had a tradition of sitting down and drawing up a huge list of all the fun things the girls would like to do in the summer holidays. Then I put it all together into a big...
View ArticleSummer Holiday Ideas!
Some of you have asked for some more information on our Bucket List, so we’ve written some more descriptions for all our ideas here. We hope lots of you have fun trying out our suggestions this summer...
View ArticleLeaf Crowns
Whilst enjoying a lovely relaxing picnic, the girls were running round collecting various bits of found treasure, flower petals, twigs, our youngest seemed to like collecting piles of grass for some...
View ArticleHalloween fun!
Halloween falls right in the middle of half term in our around here, so if you have children at home and are looking for some seasonal ways to keep them amused, why not try out some of our ideas for...
View ArticlePom poms!
Just received my new pom pom maker, how amazing! It only took 5 minutes to make this lovely fluffy pom pom, can’t wait to show the girls when they come home from school. I think I need to make some...
View ArticleLovebugs!
We made these cute little love bugs for Valentine’s Day last year. They’re really easy to put together in a few minutes with just a couple of basic craft materials. You start with a plain cardboard...
View ArticleMermaid Party
Since her 3rd birthday, our youngest has been adamant that her next party would be a mermaid theme, having a whole year to plan certainly makes it a lot easier than trying to pull a party together in...
View ArticleWhat to do with those plastic eggs!
These little brightly colours oval containers are increasingly appearing on al the supermarket shelves at this time of year. But other that filling them with mini chocolate eggs and using them for an...
View ArticleDinosaur Day!
During the holidays, we often like to choose a subject and spend a day learning about it and planning activities around the topic. The girls love immersing themselves in a particular subject and enjoy...
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