• Kid-made Hama bead crafts for Halloween
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    Kid-made Hama bead crafts for Halloween

    October 18, 2018 - By 

    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 tactile toy and perfect for encouraging fine motor skills and creativity. Kid-made Hama bead crafts for Halloween With Halloween approaching soon I actually bought more Hama beads! We really didn’t need any more but I couldn’t resist buying a bag of glow in the dark…

  • Easy Caramel Corn Snack Mix
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    Easy Caramel Corn Snack Mix

    October 18, 2018 - By 

    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 with a seasonal twist. Today I wanted to share our Caramel Corn Snack Mix recipe. Easy Caramel Corn Snack Mix ingredients: 10 cups popped popcorn 1 cup light brown sugar ½ cup butter 1 tsp vanilla 1 tsp baking soda 1 cup mellowcreme autumn mix ½…

  • boy holding plate of Limited edition BEAR Claws
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    Limited edition BEAR Claws for our Trick or Treaters!

    October 31, 2017 - By 

    My children have been (almost) climbing the walls with excitement for most of October. They just adore Halloween and have been dressing up, pleading with me to get the Halloween decorations out of the loft, and helping me bake spooky treats all month. Halloween can, and should be, a really fun festival for children. They love decorating the front of our house to make sure that Trick or Treaters know they can call on us. To get them in the mood for Halloween, they were sent their very own trick-or-treat boxes from BEAR. I left them out for the children…

  • Sylvanian Families Halloween decoration
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    Sylvanian Families Halloween wreath decoration

    October 30, 2017 - By 

    Today we were walking to school and my children berated me for our lack of Halloween decorations! I was pretty loathe to give up my day decorating, especially as I thought the Halloween decorations I picked up a few weeks ago in poundworld were brilliant. Clearly I needed to up my game to impress the 5 and 7 year old. A few weeks ago I bought a laser cut MDF spider web online. I thought I would use it to make my own Halloween wreath. I gave it two coats of white paint which took ages – if I try this…

  • Easy Halloween bark recipe
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    Easy Halloween bark recipe

    October 24, 2017 - By 

    Are you keeping your kids occupied over half term? The weather hasn’t been too bad considering the time of year and we’ve been able to get out and about. It’s lovely to come home and snuggle up with a film and we whipped up some easy Halloween bark to enjoy whilst watching the new PJ Masks DVD. It’s so easy to make and you can adapt it to any season (we’ve already made delicious chocolate Easter bark!). Easy Halloween bark recipe 1 x bar of white chocolate 2 x bars of milk chocolate Halloween sprinkles Halloween sweets How to make Halloween…

  • Halloween Monster Bagels
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    Halloween Monster Bagels

    October 14, 2017 - By 

    I love Halloween. Have I said that enough lately? I love coming up with Halloween crafts and I’m not sure what’s more fun – Halloween crafting or seeing my kids faces when they discover what I’ve been up to! Every day at pick up they ask me for a snack. It’s now fully ingrained in my head that I have some yummy healthy snacks for them. Today, however, I didn’t pack treats. Instead I spent the afternoon making them some very spooky Halloween treats – monster bagels for when they got home. As a busy mum I love to share…

  • Halloween x-ray hand print craft
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    Halloween x-ray hand print craft

    October 13, 2017 - By 

    Can I admit that we’re coming to the end of the A-Z Play at Home blog series organised by Teach Me Mommy and I’m finding the last few letters quite hard?! This weeks’ letter is the letter X and I’ve been finding it difficult to think of any thing beginning with the letter x around the home. So I’ve cheated a little bit! With Halloween coming up at the end of the month my children have been going crazy for all things Halloween. I tapped into their enthusiasm with our fun craft for Halloween – a ghostly x-ray hand print…

  • Oreo spider cookies for Halloween
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    Oreo spider cookies for Halloween

    October 12, 2017 - By 

    We put up some of our Halloween decorations yesterday but this year I just can’t help making Halloween themed food. Over the years we’ve made a lot of Halloween crafts but now the children are older it’s fun to spend more time in the kitchen. My 5 year old was off sick one day so we spent some time creating Oreo spider cookies for Halloween. They are really simple and you can find lots of different ways to make them if you look on Pinterest. This is our version. Ingredients for Oreo spider cookies Oreo biscuits Red sweet laces White…

  • Halloween roasted vegetables
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    Halloween roasted vegetables {A-Z Play at Home}

    September 29, 2017 - By 

    I love Fridays. We have a fun weekend planned with the kids. Can you believe we’ve already reached letter V in our weekly A-Z Play at Home blog hop? The letter V made me think of vegetables, something we always have plenty of at home. We’ve used vegetables in our crafting before and today we wanted to try something a bit different. With Halloween coming up soon we made our own Halloween roasted vegetables! Halloween roasted vegetables I don’t usually have a problem getting my kids to eat their veggies. Thankfully they eat well, but it can never hurt to make…