Kid-Friendly Gingerbread Man Cookie Recipe
One of my favourite treats to make with the kids at Christmas is Gingerbread Cookies. I’ve tried many recipes over…
Easy, fun, simple and great for preschoolers! These ideas, activities and crafts help them play, learn, create and have fun doing so.
One of my favourite treats to make with the kids at Christmas is Gingerbread Cookies. I’ve tried many recipes over…
On Christmas Eve we always leave out some delicious cookies for Father Christmas as one of our Christmas Eve Traditions….
We love the Julia Donaldson classic “Stick Man” and it’s a perfect book to read in the run-up to Christmas…
One of our favourite themes from last winter’s virtual book club for kids was bears – we created a fun…
This snowy winter invitation to play offers children a magical world for winter themed indoor play. We lived in often-snowy…
We are almost at the end of our first set of activities for Storybook Advent this year all inspired by…
As soon as the first packet of fresh cranberries appears in the stores I know that Christmas is really close….
We’re going all things Grinch this Christmas as we sit and read How The Grinch Stole Christmas and watch the…
Space week is one of my favourite weeks of the year. We love creating, playing and exploring with the theme of…
Last year we created a Pumpkin Halloween Bunting made from prints that decorated our dining room – sitting around from…
Continuing with our Letter of the Week Animal Crafts we have taken a little bit of a license with this…
Last week we introduced our Alphabet Animal Crafts series here on Rainy Day Mum with our a is for ant…
Learning to read begins with toddlers learning their ABC’s and starting to recognise the beginning letter sounds of words. We…
One of my favourite experiments to do with the younger students when I taught secondary school science was Chromatography –…
Along with singing our counting rhymes and songs, we love to add some number books to our book basket each…
Number recognition, number order and sequence are all important parts of learning about numbers in the early years. We teach…
The kids and I are really enjoying gardening at the moment, watching our seedlings grow and planting out more seeds….
There seems to be a bit of a theme this week and we’re fascinated by sticks, we’ve ordered and sorted…
It’s our last week of this year’s storybook summer – but don’t worry we will be back next year and…
For the final activities for our Ocean week for Storybook Summer here on Rainy Day Mum we have a fun…
It’s Ocean week and today’s Storybook Summer idea is a simple fish pattern making activity inspired by Hooray for Fish…
Continuing with our ocean week for Storybook Summer this year we have an easy summer craft for kids to make…
Tide pools are nature’s aquariums, and a trip to your local tide pool is absolutely magical. Today’s Storybook Summer for…
Sensory bins are a great way for kids to practice fine motor skills, you can limit the amount of mess…