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    How to make a Lego soap dispenser

    June 30, 2014 - By 

    We love Lego and I’ve been looking for some ways to use it a little differently. What could be better than Lego in soap? Surely that could only encourage my potty training 2 year old to wash her hands! Lego soap dispenser materials: soap dispenser lego liquid soap How to make a lego soap dispenser First of all I let my 4 year old go through our Lego stash. I asked him to fill a container with green pieces but he was easily sidetracked! Eventually we had plenty of pieces to look at. He chose enough to half fill the…

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    Win a Lego Duplo Creative Picnic set with #DUPLOplay

    May 4, 2014 - By 

    I love how creative my children are with their Lego Duplo. It really inspires and challenges them. Today they got out the Lego table (which we made from an old Ikea table) and the children let their imaginations flow. My 4 year old loves the Disney Cars films so made a very elaborate garage for his Lego Duplo Lightning McQueen. He’s amassed quite a few different sets so was able to build walls, floors, lifts, and include petrol pumps, a post office and much much more! Dusty Crophopper ended up parking on the roof – I love it when my…

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    Win a Lego Duplo Creative Cakes set

    April 23, 2014 - By 

    Over the last few weeks I’ve been working with Lego Duplo on their latest campaign called How Do You Play, which runs for the next couple of weeks on Lego Duplo’s Facebook page. It’s really easy and fun to enter. Simply let your children get creative with their Lego Duplo, capture their play in a short film and upload it through the How Do You Play app on the Lego Duplo Facebook page. Each week people can vote for their favourite videos and weekly prizes are awarded to the top three video participants and three voters who are chosen at random.…

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    Win a trip to Legoland Billund with Lego Duplo

    April 4, 2014 - By 

    With a 2 and a 4 year old our house is filled with Lego. It’s brilliant for imaginative play and I love watching my children interact with it for hours on end. Lego Duplo aims to inspire, empower and enable 21st century parents around the world to share the fun, imaginative, and playful ways the rock stars of their world, their children, play with Lego Duplo. gingerbread house Lego Duplo style Today I wanted to share an exciting campaign from Lego Duplo with you. Called How Do You Play, the global campaign and competition launched on 31st March, 2014 and…

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    A colourful day out

    October 6, 2013 - By 

    The toddler and his sister are both obsessed with taking photos on my iPhone so when I heard about a fun challenge to help children capture the colours of red, blue, green, yellow and white while on their summer holidays, well I knew they would love to take part. The toddlers’ selfies are famous around here but fortunately they don’t fit into any of the colour categories so instead whilst we were exploring the Great Western Lego Show the toddler got busy with the camera.* The Great Western Lego Show takes place at Steam so he was kept busy snapping…

  • Lego - nursery

    2013 Summer Bucket List

    July 23, 2013 - By 

    I love writing lists and ticking things off so this year we’ve made a Summer Bucket List. In an ideal world I’d have a grown up bucket list (which picked up where my Day Zero list finished off) which would be full of craft and sewing projects. However, I have two pre-schoolers so let’s be realistic… Before the toddler starts Nursery we want to do the following: Visit The Shard Ride the bus to Eastcote House Gardens Go plane spotting at Heathrow Use our Peppa Pig World tickets Visit the end of the line stations – Amersham, West Ruislip and…

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    Painting with Legos

    August 29, 2012 - By 

    I can write about our love of Lego ad infinitum. At the moment it seems all encompassing which is great because as a parent I believe it’s a great educational toy. We’ve had lots of fun with Lego. We make endless towers, houses, tunnels, bridges, and manage to use it alongside other toys such as cars and trains too. We’ve been trying to think outside the box and made Lego crayons, Lego biscuits and even painted using Legos.   We started off with some pots of paint and chose some different sized bricks and figures. Initially the toddler started off…

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    Beaconsfield charity shops

    August 19, 2012 - By 

    Yesterday we took the toddler to Bekonscot Model Village and Railway, the world’s oldest, original model village. It has a model train so we knew the toddler would love it, and he did. It was a little hot for me but he ran round, pointing out the little houses and people and shouting “TRAIN!” every time one of the model trains went past. Beaconsfield charity shops The model village is in Beaconsfield which has been labelled Britain’s richest town so I knew the charity shops would be worth a look. I only managed two because I spent too much but…

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    Lego Friends and cake pops

    July 19, 2012 - By 

    I was a bit sceptical when I heard about a new Lego range for girls which was launched in December 2011 with 14 sets. I loved Lego when I was younger (and still do today!) and loved my Lego bricks and Technical Lego too. Extensive research suggested although girls enjoyed playing with Lego they found it difficult to identify with – Lego Friends was born. Each character has a distinct personality and a variety of interests ranging from invention and design to animals and performing arts. Lego Friends is the first LEGO building experience that has been fully tailored to…