Starting school for the first time is an exciting and huge step in any child’s life. We have 20 tips to make this transition easier and enjoyable.Over the years I have offered the following tips many times, this however, is the first time that I will have to take my own advice as a parent of a 5 year old
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My top 15 Back to School Tips for a successful and stress free year based on my experience as a mom and teacher!Back to school time already! Hard to believe that the holidays will be coming to an end soon. Although I have been a teacher for 15 years this is the first year that I will be a parent
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I am always looking for ways to get my kiddies to eat nutritious food. Mostly, they are pretty good eaters but at times it can be a struggle to get a variety of vegetables into them. A couple of years ago we started to make all of our own soups and sauces from scratch mainly to sneak extra vegetables in
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This is such a fun activity! It combines two of our favourites – messy play and painting! This is simple, fun and suitable for all ages from toddlers up! It has been a while since we last did this and a recent post from Left Brain Craft Brain inspired me to try it again. What we used: shaving foam (we
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Shaving foam is a fantastic material to use in a variety of ways in sensory play. My little girl Oodles loves to sit in her mini paddling pool in her swim suit play with the foam and toys. We have created gorgeous paint foam prints and of course there is foam dough. What we used: 1 cup of cornflour/cornstarch
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We love to experiment with sensory play, recipes and doughs. Doodles loves doing experiments and he asked if we could do a fizzy one today. Oodles wanted to make dough so I decided we could try and combine both. What we used: 1 cup of flour 1 cup of baby oil food colouring 1 tbsp bicarbonate of soda vinegar What
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We’ve been experiencing a heatwave here in recent days – stunning, hot, sunny weather, my favourite type except for snow!!!! We have been taking our activities outdoors and finding lots of fun and creative ways to play and learn in the sun! For our recent Water Themed Birthday party we bought several cheap and cheerful water pistols at a discount
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Following our recent Water Themed Birthday Party we had a lot of waterballoons left and I was eager to try out lots of different activities with them! This morning was bright and sunny and perfect for more waterballoon fun, so I decided to fill several balloons with paint and see what fun we could have! What we used: water balloons
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My son is a summer baby and every year for the past 5 years we have had amazing outdoor birthday parties and thankfully the weather has always held up! Since Easter he has been planning this year’s party. All he wanted was a BBQ, his buddies and a water fight – perfect for a July birthday! The weather has been
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Number 81 on our 100 Days of Summer Bucket list is “Discover what’s inside the giant ice cube!”. Doodles and Oodles have been dying to try this out since I showed them a number of similar activities on other blogs and Pinterest! Doodles actually did this at nursery when he was 2 or 3 years old and has often referred
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Our Little House in the Country 