When I was a child, my grandmother decided to start a nutcracker collection for each of her grandchildren. Year after year, she would buy us a new one ...
Nurturing the Love of Learning and Supporting your Child's Education
"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.
Sugar Plum Fairy Clothes Peg Doll for Toddlers and Preschoolers to Make
Nothing to me says Christmas like the story of the Nutcracker - I remember as a child reading it as well as being lucky enough to go and see the ...
Storybook Advent for Kids 2018
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 ...
Easy Grinch Popsicle Stick Christmas Craft for Toddlers
Today we have a Simple Grinch-inspired craft for you to make with your toddler or preschoolers. Creating Christmas Activities inspired by Books is one ...
Easy Grinch Ornament Craft for Toddlers
We're all about the Grinch at the moment with the new movie coming out soon and Christmas around the corner How the Grinch Stole Christmas Crafts and ...
Christmas Books And Activities To Go With Them
One of the ways that we have encouraged a love of reading and learning with our kids is to match books with fun crafts and activities. We started when ...
Advent Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers
I try and steer away from the chocolate or gift versions of the advent calendars instead since my children were little we have made it an effort to ...
How the Grinch Stole Christmas Easy Cookies for Kids to Decorate
We're going all things Grinch this Christmas as we sit and read How The Grinch Stole Christmas and watch the movies and cartoons. My kids love the ...
Board Books for Baby’s First Christmas
Although we love giving classic Christmas Books as a gift for your baby's first Christmas it's also good to have a few board books that you and they ...
How the Grinch Stole Christmas Activities, Crafts and Recipes
Whether you are heading to the cinema this Christmas to watch the new How the Grinch Stole Christmas Movie, or are picking up the book, or sitting ...
Activity Ideas to Do with Your 7 Month Old
As your baby hits the 7-month mark, a game of peekaboo starts to become hours of entertainment, and they’re starting to teethe. During this first ...
DIY Pirate Maths Sorting Game for Preschoolers
My kids were always fascinated by pirates. They loved reading about them, playing with various imaginative play toys we had and they also were great ...
Invitation to Create Play Dough Aliens for Space Week with Toddlers
Space week is one of my favourite weeks of the year. We love creating, playing and exploring with the theme of outer space and this simple Space ...
DIY Pumpkin Patch Maths Game for Preschoolers
We've had fun reading the Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino this week. And wanted to create a hands-on pumpkin activity focusing more on number ...
DIY Pumpkin Number Lines for Number Recognition and Counting activities for Preschoolers
Last year we created a Pumpkin Halloween Bunting made from prints that decorated our dining room - sitting around from that I have had extra pumpkins ...
Autumn and Leaf Books and Stories for Toddlers and Preschoolers
I am always caught by surprise each year when the leaves change colour and start to fall in the autumn. Even though I am waiting and anticipating the ...
Activities to do with your 6-month-old
So, you now have a six-month-old baby and hasn't the time flown by! You’re probably wondering what you can do with your little one that they will ...
30 Days Hands-on Autumn Play, Craft and Learn Challenge for your Toddler and Preschoolers
Would you like to have a plan for ideas of activities, crafts and fun to do with your toddler and preschooler at home this autumn? Then why not join ...
Simple Preschool Apple Science Investigation Using the 5 Senses
Autumn is apple season and it is a great time to try a simple apple science investigation. For preschoolers, it's an ideal opportunity to practice ...
d is for Dinosaur Craft
Continuing with our Letter of the Week Animal Crafts we have taken a little bit of a license with this one and used one of our favourite "animals" a ...
Rubbish the Recycled Robot Monster and Create your Own Happy
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 ...
