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An easy to make and decorate with your child no sew pencil roll from felt. This is a great project to make with your child for back to school!

Create

Kids Crafts and Crafts for you to Make to Get Creative Every Day

Learn

Support your Toddlers, Preschoolers and School Kids Learn.

Quick growing seeds and plants ideal for gardening with kids. These fast growing plants are perfect for at home or in the classroom.

Time Together

Ideas and Inspiration for Activities that you can do Together

Delicious and easy to make spice mix for fajitas, tacos and BBQ seasoning or any time you want a Mexican-Inspired meal to share.

Recipes

Simple Recipes Tried and Tested for you or the Kids to Cook

10 Top tips for you and your toddlers at the beach. Plus bonus activities to do with them whilst you are there and then even more when you return

Travel

Inspiration for Family Travel, from camping to skiing and days out

Rubbish the Recycled Robot Monster and Create your Own Happy

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B is for Bird – Animal Letter Craft for Toddlers

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Delicious Halloween Recipes for Kids to Cook

Cooking is always a fun time with kids, especially around Halloween season. For some reason, everything in the kitchen becomes[...]

Simple Spelling Words Wall

Over the last year, we have been working at home on ways of helping my youngest learn spelling words. From[...]

Simple Apple Tree Sensory Bag for Toddlers and Preschoolers

As we start to go into autumn apple season is in full swing. It is a perfect start of the[...]

Pumpkin Crumble Muffins with Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice Recipes

If there are just two sweet things I could eat it would be muffins and crumble. I'm not sure during[...]

Apple Tree Math – Simple Counting Activity for Toddlers and Preschoolers

As autumn seems to have hit and our apple trees are full of fruit it's an ideal time to explore[...]

Date Night Movies Ideas from Netflix

Once upon a time date nights for my husband and I used to consist of a lovely meal in a[...]

A is for Ant – Animal Alphabet Craft for Toddlers

Learning to read begins with toddlers learning their ABC's and starting to recognise the beginning letter sounds of words. We[...]

Simple Paper Towel Chromatography Experiment for Kids

One of my favourite experiments to do with the younger students when I taught secondary school science was Chromatography -[...]

Spiced Cupcakes with Cinnamon Butter Cream and Apple Pie Topping

It's that time of the year when our tree is full of apples as are the local farm shops and[...]

Number and Counting Books for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Along with singing our counting rhymes and songs, we love to add some number books to our book basket each[...]

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Rubbish the Recycled Robot Monster and Create your Own Happy

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