As November starts so does the baking season in our house, from now through to the new year, the house is filled the smell of spices, from the ...
Autumn
Pumpkin Shape Memory Game for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Playing together is one of the best ways to connect with your children as well as help them learn. This playful and hands-on learning helps children ...
Farm Animal Dominoes Game
The farm is one of those themes that is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers whether you work it in in the autumn time or you wait until Spring with ...
Acorn and Squirrel Counting Cards
Every morning we wake up and watch out of the window as a little grey squirrel comes and steals nuts from the bird table that we have put out. Yes, we ...
Real Leaf Crafts for Kids
There's just a hint of autumn in the air here and the first few leaves are starting to change colour. So before the leaves really turn and we're ...
Cinnamon Leaf Cookie Recipe
All of a sudden the trees are giving us a second spring here in the UK. With reds, oranges, yellows, purples, browns, and pinks as autumn arrives in a ...
Apple Crafts for Toddlers and Preschoolers
It's that time of year when before everyone goes Pumpkin Crazy apples are the focus. Whether it's cooking with them as they ripen, heading out apple ...
Recipes for Fall – Leaf and Tree Treat Ideas
Autumn brings in all sorts of possibilities. Crafts, outdoor family fun, warm indoor play......but no matter what you're up to this month, you'll need ...
DIY Autumn Wood Block Home Decor
Although it maybe August, I'm already thinking about the autumn. As we move from working in our garden to indoor projects, I want to continue my theme ...
How to cook Spaghetti Squash
Last Autumn we discovered Spaghetti Squash and as I walked past the farm shop on the way home from the children's school this week I noticed the ...
DIY Pumpkin Patch Maths Game
This week's theme for the virtual book club for kids is pumpkins and we've had fun reading the featured book is five little pumpkins so it leads ...
Easy Origami – Fall Window Star
Make a fall window star with your kids this week! This is an easy and impressive-looking origami project that will add some colour to your windows as ...
Leaf Art – Prewriting Patterns for Fall
Autumn is finally here and as we walk the dog we can see the leaves changing colour almost before our eyes. For this week's theme of Leaves for the ...
Exploring Autumn at Holkham Hall
As a child, there was a place that I visited every summer Holkham. Holkham is on the North Norfolk Coast, and is a small coastal town - the highlights ...
Fall and Leaf Books for Toddlers and Preschoolers
I am always caught by surprise each year when the leaves change color and start to fall in the autumn. Even though I am waiting and anticipating the ...
Savoury Apple Recipes for Autumn Family Meals and Entertaining
I love apples, for the last 9 years, I have been very fortunate to walk into our garden and pick from our two apple trees. That is about to change as ...
Saving Seeds – Plant Science
Over the last year, we have been working on our garden clearing the rubbish and reducing the head high weeds down to the soil. We're ready now as it ...
Acorn Arrays – for Building Number Facts
Recently my eldest has come home with some maths homework and one of the problems on the sets has been a number fact using addition, subtraction, ...
DIY Pumpkin Number Lines
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 ...
Crockpot Italian Spicy Sausage Casserole recipe
This weekend our TV was on more than it would normally be as we became glued to the World Cup Rugby watching the last few of our nations teams in the ...
Crockpot Apple and Cinnamon Rice Pudding
As summer fades we look to comfort food and from the top of our fridge the crockpot slow cooker gets dusted off and brought down to take pride of ...
