It’s that time of the year again where we will be counting down to Christmas with Reading Activities and Christmas Book Based Crafts in our Storybook Advent. We take 4 fun Christmas Books and invite our favourite Kid Activities Bloggers to create some fantastic activities, crafts and recipes around the book themes. It’s a fun way to countdown to Christmas…
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Bringing natural elements into the home during the festive season is one of my favourites, and if we can create them ourselves even better – twigs and pinecones make beautiful Natural Ornaments but they aren’t the only things – dried citrus fruit makes a fantastic addition to your natural decorating and they are so easy to make. Follow our simple tutorial…
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As a parent, your Baby’s First Christmas is one that you will never forget, probably not for the gifts that you give to your child but for the traditions that you start as a family and the memories these will make and every Christmas to come. Your baby maybe a few days old to almost a year, but the memories…
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One of our favourite Christmas recipes to bake with the kids each year are mince pies. We’ve made them with ready-rolled shortcrust pastry, our favourite no-roll pastry recipe and even with puff pastry (find those recipes at the bottom of the post we have suggestions for cooking with preschools, toddlers and all age kids). But, the kids’ favourite way is…
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One of the advent activities for toddlers we suggest is a Christmas Movie Night. We make some popcorn, dig out the duvet and pillows and set up for some holiday movies. But picking something that is suitable for your 2 – 6 year old can be difficult. So we’ve put together our own list of Christmas Movies that both our…
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Instead of chocolate or gifts as you count down to Christmas with your toddler and Preschooler why not spend a little time each day doing one of these Advent Ideas that are so simple to do you’ll have fun together and make memories. Check out how we’ve been using them with our tots as well as our 24 days of…
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With 2 kids in school the first heading off to secondary school in September, a business that I run from home and about a thousand or so family photographs that we want printing, finding a printer that does it all can be challenging. However, we think we have found a solution in the Epson EcoTank ET-7700 and wanted to share…
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