I’m very excited this weekend to bring you my ultimate, children’s Christmas Gift Guide for 2021- for primary aged children! If you’re a parent, carer, grandparent, friend or family members and you’re looking for some ideas for Christmas presents for young children …then look no further! There’s a […]
Many of us have now just completed our first two weeks of home schooling due to school closures because of the coronavirus outbreak. We’ve had lots of people ask us for recommendations of resources to help support their child’s homeschooling so we’ve compiled our favourite homeschool resources for […]
Understanding friendships, making friends and navigating playground friendship groups can be tricky for lots of children. Here are some of our favourite books for young children to help them learn about friendships and hopefully encourage them to open up about any problems they may be having. Midge & […]
It’s Chinese New Year on Saturday 25th January 2020 and this year will be the Year of the Rat. As well as creating fun kids craft activities to celebrate it (have a look here at our easy to make paper rat) we’ve been searching over the last week […]
What are the best play dough/ modelling resources for young children? One of our favourite ways to practise fine motor skills is by squishing, squeezing and shaping. But with so many types of play dough and similar resources available it can be tricky to know which ones to […]
Whether you have a child who’s interested in playing doctors and with toy fire engines or you are teaching the ‘People Who Help Us’ topic to Reception/ EYFS. Here’s our favourite toys, books and learning resources all about People Who Help Us- the real life super heroes. Le […]
It’s Autumn! Not only have we been looking at some autumn based crafts this week but we’ve compiled our list of our 5 current favourite Autumnal books for young children. Any ones you think we should have included and need to know about? Please let us know! Our […]
We’ve been learning how to form the letters of the alphabet this week and discovered three brilliant resources by Learning Resources UK that make writing the letters of the alphabet fun! In my experience, it’s important that children learn to correctly form the letters of the alphabet at […]
We wrote a couple of weeks ago about many peoples concerns with toys contributing to the vast amounts of plastic ending up in landfills and the ocean. Choosing plastic-free toys instead of plastic ones can be a way of making a small difference by reducing the amount of […]
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