Making fudge is a super simple and super fun activity to do with young children. I haven’t done much in the kitchen with my children because our kitchen is so small, with very little available countertop space. Luckily making fudge requires little space, and not many ingredients. When I suggested …
We’ve been reading There is No Dragon in This Story, a Bloomsbury children’s book by Lou Carter and Deborah Allwright. The first thing that strikes you about the book is the gorgeous cover illustrations – bright, bold and sweet. The cover is generally matte, with some lovely glossy highlights. It’s …
My children love dinosaurs, and will eagerly seek out dinosaur books first and foremost in any book shops. I would guess a good 40% of their book collection are dinosaur ones, if not more! They were super excited to get not one, but two Dear Dinosaur books last Christmas, and …
We have a new book to check out – the You Choose book, by Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart. This book isn’t a story book, it’s more of a fun ‘discussion creator’. You know those conversations you have with your child, about what they want to be when they grow …
When we were children, the Easter Bunny always used to leave at least one children’s Easter book each for me and my sister, as well as chocolate eggs. So while other children had let’s say five chocolate eggs, we had four chocolate eggs and a book or two. I don’t …
We’ve been reading the Seriously Silly Stories books, by Laurence Anholt and Arthur Robins, as a change from our usual picture books. As my twins transition from picture books (which we still, and will continue to, love) to stories with more to them, I was definitely interested when I saw …
We love dinosaur books in this house, and in particular – dinosaur fact books! My two love learning new, and repeat, information about their favourite creatures. I bought them a copy each of the Factivity Travel Back Through Time To The Land of The Dinosaurs book, and we could not …
My twins love it when we have our monthly movie afternoon! We all curl up on the sofa in front of the TV, and enjoy a family movie together with munchies. So we’ve come up with our 10 perfect movies to watch as a family. When I was told about …
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 …
