I haven’t had a chance to do a book post for a week or two! We have been outdoors so much, making the most of the good weather and I was so busy documenting the fun we were having that I forgot to keep up to date with our books of the week. Back to normal routine Monday as the
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At lunchtime today Doodles and Oodles asked me if they could make Gloop. I agreed immediately and started to get out the cornflour and paint etc. (see here for our gloop recipe). They then began shouting out other things that they would like to add to it. So today we are sharing our spur of the moment messy play fun.
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Happy Easter! This morning Doodles and Oodles were dying to get outside to play but couldn’t as Mr G is cutting all the hedges with a supersized power tool of some description. So for health and safety reasons and in order to maintain my sanity while struggling to keep two very outdoorsy children indoors I suggested we have some more
Read moreI haven’t had much time to blog this week. My son is on holidays from preschool so we have been havibng great fun getting out and about. The weather has also been amazing so we have been outdoors all day, everyday. We are all sleeping like logs and appetites have improved and everyone is in good humour – yaaaaay! Today
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There are so many beautiful children’s books with Spring themes available, we have so many of them I wasn’t sure where to start with this post. With the help of Oodles and Doodles, I have put together out top 10 Spring themed books! 1. The Velveteen Rabbit – not strictly about Spring but a gorgeous, timeless story . 2. That’s
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We finally got around to starting our Easter artwork today. I’m sure that we will manage a few more seasonal projects over the next week or so. Today we have 2 to share with you. Potato-print Easter Chicks: These were so much fun to do.. Doodles and Oodles love printing so there was great excitement when I handed them potatoes
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Hi there, today I am sharing our top 20 outdoor games. Some of these games can be played indoors but most are more suitable for getting active outside in the fresh air now that Spring is here! In case you need instructions on how to play these games I have linked them to other great sites and blogs about games
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I have spent most of today, Sunday, adding some of our Easter decorations to our home. We are having a get together of old friends next Saturday so I wanted to have the decorations up in time for this. Here are a few pictures of the Easter touches we have added to our home. Hope you like them. Enjoy! Ciara
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We’ve had a very busy day today. We decided to have a painting afternoon and try out a few different Spring ideas I had spotted on the net over the past few weeks. Before I share our top 5 Spring Painting Activities I like to let you know about one or two things that I have coming up on the
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Our Little House in the Country 