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Why Teaching Your Children to Write in Cursive is Important
Computers have become the main source of writing at present, and according to many administrators there is no need to[…]
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Getting Your Children Involved in Gardening – Bird Watching
If you’re an avid gardener, you may take pride pulling up weeds, planting seeds or choosing the right stylish bird[…]
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Arts and Crafts Ideas for Every Stage of Your Child’s Development
Arts and crafts are great fun. Children love the creativity and imagination art requires, and getting a little bit messy[…]
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Your Own 12 Days of Christmas
A fun and simple idea that the whole family can do together. We all know the 12 days of Christmas[…]
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No-Sew Sock Snowman Craft
How cute are these? If you’re looking for a really simple Christmas decoration or even a fun gift from[…]
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Learning Doesn’t Have To Be Boring: Educational Trips In London And Essex
They say that travel broadens the mind. It’s true, too, and we can all agree that a voyage away somewhere[…]
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Fizzy Science
Bonfire night is coming up and I thought it would be fun to look for some fizzy, whizzy science experiments[…]
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Halloween Acrostic Poem
Acrostic poems are a great way of inspiring budding poets by getting them started with the first letter and a[…]
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Sensory Balloons
A great idea from Naomi Claxton. Naomi likes to set her toddler ‘invitations to play’, we think these are wonderful[…]
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Surprise Ball
A quick and easy activity to set up, great for fine motor skills and talking about colours and textures. If[…]
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Bug Hotel
Arts and crafts for the garden? We turned a trip to the woods into a materials gathering treasure hunt for[…]
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Homemade Blackboard Frames
Another lovely idea from Claire! Making a blackboard frame. You will need: An old wood picture frame with backing[…]
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Pretty beaded bubble wands
Another great idea from Clair Thienel: We made this super cute bubble wands about two years ago; they always come out[…]
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Reading Bookworm
This idea from chickenbabies.com was originally aimed at getting kids to read throughout the summer holidays, but I think it could[…]
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Upcycled Crayons
I love this! Thanks to Clair for another fantastic idea! Fed up of finding bits and pieces of broken crayon[…]
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Homemade Moondough
Moondough is fun, mouldable sand; here’s how to make your own at a fraction of the shop bought prices. Thanks[…]
Read moreGlow In The Dark Glitter Jars
Something fun for the bedroom (how cool would these be for a space-themed room?) or even to take camping with[…]
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Me in My World
Do your kids know where they fit into the world? This is a fun activity to help them understand where they[…]
Read morePuffy Paint
This idea from One Little Project really caught my eye. I would have loved it when I was a child[…]
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