We love camping as a family and we tend to take our camping trips as the perfect excuse to unplug and leave our devices at home. We do take our phone but as a rule turn off our data settings and only use them for necessary calls and texts. So while we are enjoying a screen free weekend or
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My kids love scootering and earlier this week we were lucky enough to receive the new Globber My Free 2C scooter to test and review. If you’re looking for a really great scooter for younger children then this may be for you! What is the Globber My Free 2C scooter? Designed for the youngest riders, My Free is ideal to
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Outdoor play and Pinterest – two of my favourite things! Today I am sharing 10 of my favourite Pinterest boards full of outdoor play ideas. The benefits of outdoor play are endless from better sleep to exercise, from exploring the world around us to developing gross motor skills to name only a few! Check out and follow these boards from
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Hi, I’m Louise and I’m so excited to be guest-posting here at ‘Our Little House in the Country.’ My usual ‘home’ is Building Blocks and Acorns, where I share the activities I do with my two year old son, on my days off as a Primary School teacher and nursery worker. Often, the activities we do have a nature or
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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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My little man Doodles turned five on Friday, as a result we have a had a busy weekend celebrating! Some of the highlights of the weekend were the fun had by all with these all time favourite party games! Pass the Parcel: I loved Pass the Parcel as a child and it is a “must have” game at all
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A Beach Themed sensory play activity was on our 100 Days of Summer Bucket List and this week we had we had the opportunity to cross it off our list and have a whole lot of fun doing it! So, what is an invitation to play (you may have seen this term used on this blog and elsewhere before)? Simply,
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