Do you love the festive season? Are you already preparing for what fun things you and your family might get up to? What about a festive family movie night? Join the adorably ambitious “littlest reindeer”, Elliot, this Christmas as he sets his sights on becoming the newest – and tiniest – member of Santa’s reindeer […]
Travelling with children can be stressful at the best of times, but over Christmas if you have to travel that can go up a notch. Some new research from the Accident Advice Helpline has cited lots of tips from parents for travelling with children over the festive period. Leaving in plenty of time, filling the car with […]
What’s your view on Christmas jumpers? I don’t know whether Christmas jumpers have, like Halloween, just become more of a thing in the last few years, or whether I was just totally oblivious to it all in the past. It certainly seems to be a ‘thing’ now with Christmas jumpers in most clothing stores. We’ve […]
I don’t know about you but we love games at Christmas. It’s probably the time of year we play the most board games as a family, although the boys in particular have been enjoying dominoes recently, which is lovely as it reminds me of my childhood, playing dominoes with one of my grandfathers. Most years […]
That time of year has come when there are tons of Christmas parties going on. It might be work Christmas parties, club Christmas parties, your partners’ work do, maybe just a Christmas get together with friends and family. Whatever it’s for there are a lot of them going on from now until Christmas…and then of […]
We’ve hit November and the shops are full of Christmas goodies, it’s time to begin the preparations. The build up to Christmas for children can almost be as exciting as the day itself. We all have our own family traditions and the things we do to prepare and build up that excitement. Although it is […]
At least once a week I will ask the children “would you like to do some craft?” – the same question, fairly frequently, and the level of excitement in response is also consistent every time. They love it. They always have fun. Whilst they respond fairly well to structured craft sessions, the ones they enjoy […]
I don’t know about your children but when Blaze and the Monster Machines burst onto our screens about eighteen months ago our children were instantly hooked. Someone asked me recently to describe the programme as they had never heard of it – my description went a bit like this “it’s like Dora but with monster […]