By http://rainydaymum.co.uk on Saturday, 18th of May 2013 at 08:36:07 PM 
Summer is on it’s way and I know some of your will be breaking up very soon for the summer vacation so I’ve put together some fantastic fun summer activities for Toddlers to enjoy and keep those hot long days fun. So here goes our Summer Activities for Toddler round-up.
Summer play for Toddlers
Keep cool with some Instant Pudding and Ice sensory play this summer
Pirate Party Small World Play get the water table set up and start the pirate play off keeping cool as the waves hit the sides as you go
When it gets too
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By http://rainydaymum.co.uk on Wednesday, 15th of May 2013 at 08:32:38 PM 
One of the first artists that many children are exposed to are children’s book illustrators – by far my favourite illustrator/artists is Eric Carle so when J posed the questions “How does he make his pictures?” we decided to explore Eric Carle as an artists as opposed to an Author.
Our first stop of was looking at the pictures and working out what makes his work stand out – J decided it was the colours used and the way it looked it was different to the illustrations by Alex Scheffler in the Gruffalo. We looked at the books that
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By http://rainydaymum.co.uk on Tuesday, 14th of May 2013 at 12:30:00 PM 
We are a music loving household – the CD player always has a children’s music CD in it or the radio is on. Musical instruments can be found around the house and both J and T will burst into spontaneous song at various points during the day. So seeing DIY Music Ideas and some ways for Tots to play and learn about music were a great idea for us to feature on Rainy Day Mum this week.
Red Ted Art – shared with us on Tuesday Tots last week how to make a guitar. I love the
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By http://rainydaymum.co.uk on Tuesday, 7th of May 2013 at 06:00:00 AM 
This week I’m featuring 10 flower activities for tots linked up last week to Tuesday Tots including crafts, play and some outdoor fun – it’s Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and we all seem inspired by the flowers we are seeing in our gardens and as we take walks to incorporate them into our posts.
Starting off with flowers in some imaginative play over on Nature and Play – with real flowers turned into a Daisy Crown and leading to some free outdoor imaginative play for toddlers.
Over on Capri + 3 they have been inspired to created some
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By http://rainydaymum.co.uk on Tuesday, 30th of April 2013 at 09:49:39 PM 
Over on Tesco’s Magazine I shared 5 quick and easy crafts for kids from tots to school aged kids to make for mum for mothering Sunday – with Mother’s Day approaching in countries around the rest of the world (yes I realise how odd it is that in the UK our mothering Sunday is way back in March!) you can pop by and discover more.
Handmade gifts from your children for Mother’s Day are extra special. Whether your kids are two or in their teens, the time taken to make them, and the effort they put in, makes a world
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By http://rainydaymum.co.uk on Friday, 26th of April 2013 at 12:18:05 PM 
We’re kicking off a new series on Rainy Day Mum, where my fellow bloggers are sharing 7 days worth of their favourite ideas from their own or other blogs to prompt you to play, craft or learn what ever the weather. Today the series starts with the amazing Maggy from Red Ted Art. Another Brit and now a published author and she’s sharing 7 days of Nature Crafts for you today – so over to Maggy.
Finally! Finally.. I am here… the lovely Cerys asked me MONTHS ago, if I fancied sharing 7 of our posts with you,
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By http://rainydaymum.co.uk on Tuesday, 23rd of April 2013 at 09:08:45 PM 
At the moment we’re into life cycles and with the butterfly’s suddenly making an appearance in the garden it’s the perfect opportunity to start introducing another life cycle on top of the Frog that we are already looking at on the dinning room table. We have read and re-read the Very Hungry Caterpillar and when Collective Bias™ set us the task of creative baking I thought getting creative with some cookies and cakes were perfect bakes to go with a Butterfly theme.
So with a check of our cupboards we wrote a list of what we needed to decorate
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