Life is about learning new things and gaining new experiences. One of the ways that you can do this is by getting out of your comfort zone. It is often said that on the outside of your comfort zone is where all of the magic happens. In the process of exploring, you could think about […]
LEGO: love it or hate it? It’s common for parents to have a love/hate relationship with LEGO. On the one hand it’s this incredible construction toy, with multiple learning opportunities, inspiring children of all ages to create things beyond their wildest dreams. One the other hand it is also an instrument of torture, that clogs […]
Christmas trees are well over and it’s a good while before we will be putting one up again so we decided to make an Easter tree at the weekend. The children’s didn’t need much convincing. They all love being creative and the little boys have got a thing about sticks at the moment so it […]
We spent some time at the weekend doing a bit of craft. We used a range of things from Bostik around the theme of dragons. Here are some of the things we used. There was a specific request to make “a really huge dragon” which did seem like a bit of a challenge, so we settled […]
Welcome to part nineteen of our ‘Christmas Gift Guide’. We are into December now and people are talking about how many days there are until Christmas, instead of weeks, gulp! I don’t know where the time goes. How is your shopping and general preparation going? Who are you struggling to buy for the most? We’ve […]
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you will know that we do quite a lot of crafting and the children love making things. I wrote recently about that here. We have been doing some Halloween craft this last week. You can see our little pumpkins below. We told you a while back that […]
Welcome to part seven in our ‘Christmas gift guide’ series. How is the Christmas shopping going? How far have you got? What sorts of things are you thinking of getting for the children this Christmas? I always like to get a few gifts that involve the children making things as they love to craft and […]
With half term upon us we have been doing lots of craft, and with Halloween fast approaching much of this has been themed around that. We seem to have had a run of bad luck on coloring things lately. Crayons snapping, pencils constantly breaking and felt tips drying our far too quickly. This week we’ve […]