Your Rainy Day Fund of ideas for living with kids and achieving your family goals
"Education is the most powerful weapon for changing the world"
Nelson Mandela
Learning begins at home, from practical life activities to supporting your child's academic progress and providing encouragement when they find areas difficult or the teaching doesn't match their learning style.
One of the things that makes me so sad is the way that my generation has become so throw away. Clothes, toys, materials etc... of course it's made ...
Last week we introduced our Alphabet Animal Crafts series here on Rainy Day Mum with our a is for ant craft for toddlers. This week we are moving ...
Over the last year, we have been working at home on ways of helping my youngest learn spelling words. From multisensory methods to traditional ways, ...
As we start to go into autumn apple season is in full swing. It is a perfect start of the year unit for toddlers and preschoolers and there are so ...
As autumn seems to have hit and our apple trees are full of fruit it's an ideal time to explore the theme of apples with your toddlers and ...
Learning to read begins with toddlers learning their ABC's and starting to recognise the beginning letter sounds of words. We are kicking off a series ...
One of my favourite experiments to do with the younger students when I taught secondary school science was Chromatography - of course in my lab I had ...
Along with singing our counting rhymes and songs, we love to add some number books to our book basket each week to see the numbers, count the objects ...
Number recognition, number order and sequence are all important parts of learning about numbers in the early years. We teach our kids to say the ...
Congratulations on making it to the five-month mark. I bet it seems like every day is long but it's just a moment since you held your newborn in your ...
The kids and I are really enjoying gardening at the moment, watching our seedlings grow and planting out more seeds. As we watch them grow it also ...
Instilling a love of books with children is so important and reading to them at bedtime and during the day is so important. But, you can extend this ...
Your child's name is probably the first word they will learn to read and write. Once they've learned how, and you are working on letter recognition, ...
It's great to find really easy activities that don't cost anything to do with your newborn babies. This simple changing or play mat activity is ideal ...
There is nothing worse than the constant "I'm bored" coming from the kids and yes boredom is great but if your a mum you know on a wet day there is a ...
I'm happy to be back again for part of Rainy Day Mum's Storybook Summer series! This year I've got a beautiful butterfly craft for you that pairs ...
There seems to be a bit of a theme this week and we're fascinated by sticks, we've ordered and sorted plus on our recent camping trip they became toys ...
I’m working with BritMums promoting #TheHolidayMakers campaign, sponsored by The Year of Engineering. It’s all about getting children excited about ...
If your baby is now four months old, this article is for you! You’ve probably found yourself wondering what kind of activities you can do to help your ...
We love making suncatchers here in the Rainy Day Mum house, they are easy to make and low mess (which is always a bonus). This Easy Ladybug Craft for ...
Understanding what happens beneath the soil is fascinating for kids - just like outer space and the deep sea it's something that they can't see easily ...
