One of the activities on my boy’s LEGO challenges board is to make some life sized LEGO food. I decided to upgrade this into ‘make a LEGO meal and learn about healthy eating’! Every challenge I set them has an opportunity to be expanded upon and made into a nice little …
My twins are five year’s old, and play is absolutely the most important thing right now, and for a long while more. So how can you incorporate learning to make play have a little more of an educational slant? By doing challenges of course! Home educating young children doesn’t have …
LEGO plays a huge part of our home education. Almost any topic can include LEGO in some way. This week we went to our local museum and the boy’s saw an Egyptian sarcophagus! It wasn’t a topic we were working on, but that’s the beauty of home education – the …
Years and years you’ve been there for others, for us. You’ve helped shape our days. You’ve been there morning, noon and night. No questions asked. I just wanted to show and tell you that you ARE appreciated more than you could ever know. You’re the first to make our children …
Dinosaur lovers rejoice! There are loads of new dinosaur books coming to Amazon in 2019, for all ages. Personally, for our twins, we’ve given them dinosaur books meant for older children, before they were the recommended age, because quite frankly – if you love dinosaurs, you love dinosaurs! I noticed …
I’m not a ‘New Year’s Resolutions’ kind of gal. I don’t think it’s healthy to set myself up for a fall, by resolving to do things within a set timescale. I tend to fail thing’s I totally set my mind to! However, I do think it’s healthy for me to …
We recently got to try out some Little Brian Paint Sticks, and straight up – I love them! I’m a parent that HATES when my kids ask to get the paint out. Not only because of the dreaded clean up, but also the added worry of living in a rented …
Lewi and Ollie love dinosaurs. I mean they LOVE dinosaurs! We truly believe this is a love for life. When looking for toys, you can guarantee the first thing they look for is dinosaurs. And the Fingerlings Untamed T-Rex toys, and Untamed Raptors hadn’t gone un-noticed… Imagine their joy when …
When you love nature as much as my two do, and you’re slightly uncreative when it comes to children’s crafts like I am, you can imagine how thrilled I was when I discovered Mud & Bloom! “Inspiring your kids to connect with the outdoors, Mud & Bloom delivers fun and …
Secret santa is very popular amongst colleagues in workplaces. I used to partake when I worked in an office, and it can be a nightmare to find a nice enough gift within a set budget. So I’ve rounded up some of the best secret Santa gifts for office co-workers – …
