• Kids' Crafts and Activities

    The Clever Tykes Books -Super, Positive, Encouraging, Engaging! (Book review)

    Recently we were approached to review a series of 3 books called Clever Tykes and today we are thrilled to share our review of these fantastic books. The Clever Tykes Books What are the Clever Tykes Books? Clever Tykes, a series of three storybooks for primary school children has been bringing positive entrepreneurial role models to the classrooms of over 50 schools across the UK, and is now available for the home. The stories follow three separate protagonists as they each realise that there is something they are especially good at or passionate about, and they set about making this into their own venture. Included in the series is Walk-It Willow, a girl…

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    Kids' Crafts and Activities

    Alphabet Book – Hunting for Letters, Cutting Skills, Learning Our ABCs

    Hi all, this is a short and sweet post this morning about an activity we have been working on.  Doodles and I have been having lots of fun working on letters and phonics recently (just the basics).  Oodles has been joining in too, but the activities were aimed at D (almost 5 y.o).  Today, after doing an “a” sound hunt around the house, listing as many “a” words that he could identify, we decided to do a letter hunt in our magazines and comics.  This was great cutting practice as well as helping D to identify as many letters as he could. His first job was just to cut out…

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