This is a guest post from our friends at Mrs Mactivity, who make creative learning resources to download and print, for parents and teachers. Download the Halloween Friendship Bracelet template here. Halloween is such a fun seasonal event! There’s pumpkin soup to make, costumes to prepare, trick or treating, parties, fun and excited children! It’s…
Happy Monday everyone. Hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed the beautiful weather we’ve been experiencing in London. Each week I start off by writing my Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things blog post. It’s a great chance to reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record…
Are you celebrating Halloween in your house? Despite not celebrating it when I was growing up, it’s a festival that my children just adore. As soon as they started back at school last month they were asking when we could start decorating for Halloween! We love to decorate the house with our Halloween crafts, carve…
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash The phrase says it all. “full-time Mum” is a 24/7 role, and one that can leave you wondering exactly where the hours, days and weeks went. The thought of trying to fit a job into the equation is enough to send you into a cold sweat. But we all know there are many who manage…
We are a family which loves to play games. If they can be squeezed in a bag for a weekend away – even better! As members of the Blogger Board Game Club we were recently sent the small game called Who Did It? to try out at home. Who Did It? from blue orange “My…
Yay! We’re on half term. And relax. I don’t know about you, but I have been looking forward to half term pretty much since the children went back to school in September. We haven’t planned much because we’re all pretty knackered. We’ve been busy at work and school and need a break from routine. One…
My children just adore crafting and we have a huge box of Hama beads that never seem to go down. They are a really easy toy to play with and I love that I can bring the box out every so often and let the kids create with the hama beads. They are such a…
I have a delicious recipe to share with you today. I don’t know about you but I love watching films at this time of year. With half term next week we have a few films to watch, so we needed something special to enjoy whilst watching it. We all love popcorn but it’s even better…
One of my sons first toys was a little car. It may be a huge generalisation but I think that most children love playing with toy cars at some stage of their lives. Both my children loved the Disney Pixar Cars franchise so we had many, many years of watching films about cars whilst they…