With the cold dark days of Autumn almost fully in flow, I’m sure like me, you are now needing to keep your kid’s entertained indoors more. I’ve made a list of 30 family board games, suitable for ages 5+, that should keep you all happily entertained for at least an …
When the boy’s were about three, I decided to get a display board for our home ed space. Well, ‘space’ is stretching it a bit, to be fair. We do everything on our dining room table, and we have our home ed board on the wall there. As much as …
When people think about home education, I think they assume that home educators are replicating school at home. If not, then how do the children learn at home? (hint – NOT by replicating school at home!) There are many, many, MANY, every day things that provide a learning opportunity. Almost …
As an introduction to coding, we bought the Clementoni Doc Robot game, and decided to do a review of it for you. I’m really keen for my boys to move with the times, educationally. For me, that means embracing technology and understanding how it works. Coding is huge, and vital …
This September saw the beginning of something huge for us – the official start of our home education journey with the boys! Bit of background to our decision – when the boys were about three months old, I saw a TV show (Loose Women to be precise) where one of …
Don’t you just love it when your husband lets you know last minute that it’s someones birthday tomorrow? Luckily for me (or him I should say!) I have my Cricut Maker to help me whip up something really quickly. Almost everyone loves to get flowers, so I decided to make …
Yay! You’ve decided you want to go to Center Parcs for a family holiday – that’s great! I can highly recommend it. I have been going regularly since 1990, when I was just eleven myself, and this year I got to take my own family there! There’s no doubt at …
You know how most the time you try to make sure that your fake plants and flowers look as natural as possible? No one must know we have faux flowers!! Shhh! Shut the faux up! Here I have for you a free SVG to make your own vinyl decal – …
Yay for Spring! It’s the perfect time to start filling your home with pretty bunches of flowers, and I’ve made a super cute upcycled sauce jar vase using my Cricut Maker, and I’m sharing the SVG file with you! We make a lot of tomato based meals in our house, …
I love using my Cricut Maker to create home decor accessories. Having my Maker means I can whip something up really quick, whenever the mood takes me. Inspiration hit me this weekend when I saw the glass recycling pile, and I decided to make a couple of upcycled coffee jar …
