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Tips for Travelling with Kids Part 3 – General Tips & Tricks
Welcome to part 3 of our series on travel tips for families. If you need help deciding on what to bring on board an aircraft to keep your little ones entertained for a flight, then our post about tips for carry-on luggage might be helpful. We have also put together our packing list for family sun holidays or vacations. Today’s post is a list of tips and tricks we have found useful over the years. Before you go: Check that passports are in date. Check-in online – saves queuing. Keep carry-on luggage to a minimum but well stocked with activities and snacks for the kids (and a change of clothes!). Our…
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Tips for Travelling With Kids Part 2 – Packing Tips and List!
Welcome to part 2 of our travel tips series. In case you missed part 1, you can read all about what we pack for carry-on luggage in our post Tips for Travelling With Kids Part 1 – Carry-on Luggage. I love reading other people’s travel tips so please feel free to add yours in the comments or if you have a post about travelling with children we would love if you shared it with us on our Facebook page and we would be delighted to read and share in on Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook. Over the years I have become better at packing but I must admit I still find…
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20 Outdoor Games for Children
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Tips for Travelling with Kids Part 1 – Carry-on Luggage for Air Travel
At the moment on our Facebook page we have been having a great time reading and sharing lots of fantastic tips and advice from parents about travelling with children. Check out the brilliant posts and share your own too, feel free to leave a link to your post of just simply add your top tip in the comments below the photo pinned to the top of our Facebook page (further details are on our post from yesterday – Share Your Tips for Travelling with Kids). The idea to start this discussion on Facebook came about as a result of a series of posts I am currently working on. We love to…
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Share Your Top Tips for Travelling with Kids!
We love to travel as a family and we have been lucky enough to travel quite a bit! We have a few trips coming up over the next few months which got me thinking about compiling our top tips for travelling with children. I also love reading other people’s tips and ideas. So, I have opened a discussion on our Facebook page, asking for you to share your top tips for travelling with kids. Please feel free to link up your posts on travelling as a family on the the page also and I will gladly share them on our page as well as Pinterest and Twitter. Come join in…
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Play Dough Tool Kit – Everything You Need For Play Dough Fun!
Doodles (4y.o.) and Oodles(2y.o.) had the play dough out again this afternoon. While they were creating aliens and monsters with lots of bits and pieces, I decided to clean out the crate that we keep all of our play dough tools and toys in. I actually surprised myself with the amount of things we have collected to use with play dough over the last while. We play with play dough a lot and love to try out different recipes such as our recent experiment with super soft colour surprise play dough and our old reliable basic play dough. Anyone who has ever been a primary teacher like me or worked…
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Summer Butterfly Collages: An Invitation to Create – using materials as a stimulus
I love to wander around “Euro” or “Pound” shops looking out for bits and pieces to use in art projects or play activities. On one such trip recently I found these card butterfly cut outs. I’m not a huge fan of using templates and cut outs but I find if they are used in the right way they can be very useful for creative process art projects. Often I use some sort of a stimulus for our art activities – a book, an item, a picture, or even a piece of music. I also use the actual art materials as a stimulus, which is what I did for this…
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Super Soft Colour Surprise Playdough
I love trying out new play dough ideas. Doodles and Oodles love playing with playdough, they play with it most days. I haven’t made it in a number of weeks as the play dough recipe I generally use makes a dough that can be stored in the fridge for weeks and weeks and used over and over again. Recently on Pinterest I spotted this really great idea by Learn Play Imagine for Colour Surprise Playdough – it looked like so much fun, I was completely intrigued by it and have been waiting for the right opportunity to try it. I changed the recipe as I wanted to try out a…
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Simple Outdoor Fun and Games – My Country Kids at Play!
The Country Kids Link Up over on the fantastic Blog and Website Coombe Mill (thanks for the reminder tweet and shout out on twitter on Friday, Fiona) is one of my favourite link ups as it is specifically for sharing outdoor family fun, something I am pretty passionate about. Usually, I link up one of my posts from during the week about some outdoor activity we have done or somewhere we have visited as a family that is suitable for the family fun outdoors theme. This week, however, I decided to put together a post specifically for the link up which will also form a lovely keepsake for Doodles and…
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Bubbles Play – Our Top 5 Tried and Tested Recipes
I don’t know about you bu I have spent a fortune on bubble mixture and bubble machines over the years. My kids are bubble crazy, so crazy that I regularly have to hide the bubbles!!!! Anyway, recently I said enough is enough and I am not buying bubble mixtures anymore, especially as they invariably get spilled within minutes of the fun starting! So, I went hunting in my favourite hang out – Pinterest and set about trying out the various recipes pinned and wow, some were absolutely amazing!!! Our Top 5 Recipes: 1. Giant Bubbles from Busy Kids Happy Mom – these are amazing, really great fun! 2. Easy Homemade…
