Enjoying the evening sun on the farm
I think we’re getting to the end of the amazing weather before the rain turns up in readiness for the bank holiday weekend, but we managed to get quite a bit of outdoor time at the weekend. N doesn’t seem…
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A non-birthday party and 5 tips for preschool party activities
Following my previous post about decorations for N’s upcoming ‘non-birthday’ party, I thought I’d share the preschool party activities I had planned for it (plus a couple of others). So much is dependent on the weather for parties in the UK. …
Musical Exploration 2: Children’s choirs and hooked on classics
This month we’ve been a lot less structured about listening to music. A bit naughty as I really should have a plan to work through to make sure we manage to fit music in on a regular basis. Listening to:…
Musical Exploration linky – Month 2
Welcome to the second month of my Musical Exploration with Children linky. Thanks to those of you who linked up for the inaugural one. Hopefully we’ll start to get the word out further and see it grow as the months…
Swimming teachers inspiring children
If you ask toddlers who their heroes are they’d probably say a children’s tv character, maybe a proper superhero if they’re into those, or their mum or dad. N would probably answer ‘don’t know’ which is his standard answer to…
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Fairy tales in the forest – The Gruffalo returns
I maintain I am not a creative person. So I baulked at first when we were asked to write a short story that tied in with Forest Holidays’ project, Fairy Tales in the Forest. However, considering how much N loves books,…
Haba’s Memo in the Zoo – a classic memory game
When we received Haba’s Memo in the Zoo game to review, I thought it would be the perfect game for N. He likes playing memory games on apps, so having the tiles in real life would be a good alternative….
Musical exploration with children – linky
As I said in this post, N loves music and I wanted to have a musical focus for a time before introducing him to something new. I have to admit that maybe that was a bit ambitious, and that it…
How to play games with pre-schoolers
I’m really competitive when it comes to games. I always was, and with a younger brother who was just the same, playing games was interesting in our childhood house. I don’t really remember our mum playing with us, apart from…
Term time routine vs holiday habits
At the moment, we’re not really that impacted by school holidays, although N’s nursery school is only term time. I tend to put him into his day nursery for the additional days so week days things generally carry on as…
Hape Geomix for colour, shape and puzzle practice
For N’s last birthday, one of the smaller presents I got him was a Hape Geomix puzzle set. He quite enjoys doing puzzles, and as he’s learning shapes I thought it would be a great puzzle as he can build patterns freestyle or according to…