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Have you recovered from half term? Today my children went back to school and I returned to work. We packed a lot into half term and I was pretty glad to get back to our routine and do something normal like the food shop on my own today! As I sit with a hot cup of tea, Radio 4 playing and a mammoth to do list to get through, I thought I would take some time to share my recent Father’s Day Scrabble art craft. Father’s Day isn’t until June 17th but it’s never too early to start on your handmade…
My children love pocket money toys. Anything cute and colourful and my children will probably want to buy some with their pocket money. When we were at the Num Noms Party last week the children received some Moj Moj! in their goody bags. They were really cute and so were thrilled to be sent some more to review. Brand new squishy collectable…Moj Moj! The first Moj Moj series, named “” says goodbye to the typical numbered series and brings emoji’s to life – If you love emoji’s you won’t be able to stop squeezing these cute, colourful characters. Moj Moj come…
Happy Monday everyone. Hope you had a great weekend and are enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend. I love starting off each week 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 some of our family adventures – it’s a post I always enjoy writing. Monday mindfulness- 5 happy things Half term came at just the right time to give us all a well deserved break. I can’t quite believe how much we’ve packed in but we really…
Have you ever heard of Scientist Dress-up Day? Goodness knows how anyone comes up with these days but the school newsletter gave us at least a weeks warning of the latest dress up day at school. Yes, Scientist Dress-up Day is now a thing. What is Scientist Dress-up Day? Friday 8th June is Scientist Dress-up Day. On Friday children can go to school wearing a ‘lab coat’ decorated with words and pictures linked to science. With two children at school we seem to have a lot of strange requests, but this is one of the craziest. DIY Scientist Dress-up Day lab coat…
The 2018 Tour de France will be the 105th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling’s three Grand Tours. It’s an annual male multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours, it consists of 21 stages over a little more than 3 weeks. A few years ago we came up with our Tour de France inspired bicycle craft for kids. Today we’re sharing another fun bicycle craft for kids, inspired by the Tour de France. Tour de France bicycle craft for kids We used: green…
Did you know that the Queen celebrates her birthday on the second Saturday in June? It’s a bit of a vague date as it’s not her real birthday. Her actual birthday is April 21st but her official one is later this month. To celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 92nd birthday we had fun with our London Guards craft stick activity. Let me show you them. We love living in London, especially when the sun is shining. It’s great to be a tourist in our own city and walk past our favourite landmarks, such as Buckingham Palace, Downing Street or the Houses of…
We love half term. The freedom from the school routine is sooooo welcome! The Summer term is fun but seems super busy with the longer days and more outdoor activities! This half term we’re staying pretty local with a few long weekends visiting family. Last weekend we took ourselves off to Stonehenge. It’s somewhere we have wanted to visit for a while, especially since my son studied the Stone Age in Year 3. Exploring Stonehenge with kids We’re English Heritage members so had pre-booked our tickets via their website. We picked a 10am slot as we knew it would get…
Photo by Micheile Henderson on Unsplash Yes, it’s your big day and all eyes should be on you. But hosting and organising the biggest day of your life means that the pressure is on to make it a day no one will forget! Showing your guests, a really good time shows that you consider them an important part of your new life and it’ll get them talking about what an amazing time they had, and what bride doesn’t want that? Here you’ll find some inspiration of how you can show your guests a really good time! The food Food is a huge party…
There are so many sporting events coming up that I wanted to try making some mini flags with the children. We’re not huge sport fans but it’s hard not to get caught up in the excitement of the World Cup, Wimbledon or the Tour de France. We have been talking about flags and recently had fun crafting flags on painted rocks and making a craft stick union flag. For our mini flags we used a sheet of white card, scissors and a pack of Color’Peps Long Life pens from Maped. World Cup mini flags activity for kids I cut the…