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  • Easy salt painted pumpkin craft
    Crafts for kids - Halloween crafts - STEM activity

    Easy salt painted pumpkin craft

    October 9, 2020 - By 

    I know that Halloween is still a few weeks away but my Halloween crafts for kids have been super popular. I love to add a few new ideas to my site and have been wanting to try salt painting for a while. This week I finally had time and wanted to share our salt painted pumpkin with you. It’s a really fun but effective STEM craft for kids and brings some much needed colour to these days. The equipment needed is quite minimal but you will need a simple colouring page printed on white thick card. Salt painted pumpkin equipment:…

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    Monday Happy List

    Monday Happy List {Week 312}

    October 5, 2020 - By 

    I love to start the week by writing the Monday Happy List. It’s a chance for me to sit down and 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 love to write. The weather this weekend was terrible thanks to Storm Alex. All our weekend plans were cancelled, including our trip to The Pop up Farm Pumpkin Patch – hopefully we can book again for another day. Monday Happy List {Week 312} First of all I need to tell you that this Friday…

  • Easy Halloween Bookmarks
    Crafts for kids - free printables - Halloween crafts

    {Free printable} Easy Halloween Bookmarks

    September 29, 2020 - By 

    I went shopping to a shopping mall for the first time in months today. I usually enjoy shopping and picked up some great Halloween items so we can celebrate it at home. My children enjoy Halloween too which I why I came up with this easy Halloween bookmark craft for kids. I have two little bookworms and they love to make a themed bookmark. These will keep them happy all through pumpkin season! List of supplies: Pencil Coloured card Craft sticks Craft glue Sharpie Scissors Halloween bookmark template How to make easy Halloween bookmarks: Gather your supplies for the Halloween…

  • Melted Pony Bead Pumpkin suncatcher
    Crafts for kids - Halloween crafts - STEM activity

    Melted Pony Bead Pumpkin suncatcher

    September 22, 2020 - By 

    Today is the first day of Autumn so it seems like a great time to start sharing Halloween content with you. I like Halloween and my children love getting dressed up to go Trick or Treating. I think it’s safe to say it’s going to be very different this year but we can still enjoy celebrating it at home. As Halloween crafts go, this melted pony bead pumpkin suncatcher is fun and easy to make and a great STEM activity for kids. Melted Pony Bead Pumpkins suncatcher equipment Orange, white and green plastic pony beads Metal pumpkin shaped cookie cutters…

  • A socially-distanced visit to Hughenden Manor
    Buckinghamshire - days out

    A socially-distanced visit to Hughenden Manor

    September 13, 2020 - By 

    It’s been 9 months since our last visit to Hughenden. When it re-opened in June we found tickets were like gold dust, but we finally managed to visit this weekend. A lot of things have changed since our last visit but it’s still worth a visit. So let me tell you a little about our socially-distanced visit to Hughenden Manor. ​Hughenden Manor was home to Queen Victoria’s favourite Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli. It provided a backdrop for political drama, royal visits and an enduring love story. And it has a secret wartime story to tell. A socially-distanced visit to Hughenden…

  • Folk Art with You Can Folk It! {review}
    Crafts for adults

    Folk Art with You Can Folk It! {review}

    September 6, 2020 - By 

    AD – I was kindly sent The Ultimate Folk Art Painting Masterclass from You Can Folk It to review at home A few weeks ago now I was offered The Ultimate Folk Art Painting Masterclass to try at home. My sister bought one of these kits from The Handmade Fair a few years ago and I loved the results. According to Wikipedia, Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture. Definitions vary, but generally the objects have practical utility of some kind, rather than being exclusively decorative. Folk Art with You Can Folk…

  • How to dye white flowers with food colouring
    Crafts for kids - STEM activity

    How to dye white flowers with food colouring

    August 25, 2020 - By 

    We’ve had so much fun with simple science experiments at home over the last few months. I’m not sure where the time has gone but I haven’t shared nearly as many as I wanted to. Today I’m going to share a simple science experiment to do with kids at home – how to dye white flower with food colouring. It’s really simple to set up but the results are amazing, perfect for a little science at home. Colouring white flower with food colouring equipment White flowers A selection of food colours Water Glass jars or containers How to dye white…

  • Build Your Own Microscope Kit
    Build Your Own Brand Ambassador - Family Life - STEM activity

    Build Your Own Microscope Kit

    August 21, 2020 - By 

    A few months ago we told you about the Plane Launcher kit, one of the new kits from Build Your Own who make sustainable toys with less plastic. This was a a great STEM toy (one which utilises science, technology, engineering and mathematics) for kids aged 8 and over, and they have enjoyed playing with it over and over again. Build Your Own Microscope Kit We recently gifted the latest product in the Build Your Own range, the BYO Microscope kit, which the children couldn’t wait to put together and use. Like the BYO Plane Launcher kit, the BYO Microscope…

  • Devon - Family Life

    Pick your own sunflowers at Darts Farm

    August 13, 2020 - By 

    Each year, Darts Farm grow fields of beautiful sunflowers and ask for donations to raise money for Hospicecare. We have been eagerly looking for somewhere to pick our own sunflowers. Last year we visited the Pop Up Farm in Hertfordshire but they sadly announced that they wouldn’t be open for sunflowers this year. Happily for us we were near to Dart’s Farm at just the right time to go sunflower picking today. A morning at Darts Farm It’s been a few years since our last visit to Dart’s Farm which is just outside Exeter in south Devon. On our visit…