Everything we get up to – activities, learning and play
I love receiving picture books from Parragon books as they always seem to brighten your day when you open the envelope. The latest read for us was Hold That Thought Milton! By Linda Ravin Lodding. The name Milton reminds me…
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…
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…
This round up of what we’ve been reading in week 14 of the 300 picture book challenge, does include a few stragglers that I’d forgotten to include last week. Much to my consternation there’ve been lots more Biff and Chip…
I shared my crochet bubble stitch and blanket progress before, and someone had asked about how to start crocheting. So I thought I’d share my top resources that help if you’re learning to crochet. Like so many other people I…
Using Plus Plus blocks for colour sorting activities for pre-schoolers helps fine motor sckills and colour understanding
According to my former sales director, a risk taker will happily go on roller coasters, while someone who’s risk averse, won’t. I’m not sure how true that is, but given he had me down as risk averse (probably true as…
We’ve been a bit slow on reading this week, mostly down to us being out and about more. We didn’t exchange library books this week either as we’d not got through the previous week. A few visits to charity shops…
I spotted these really simple fun necklaces over at We Made That, and decided that we’d have a go at making our own versions. Ok so N’s a boy, but he’s quite happy making these kind of things, and you…
Moving nicely through the year and we’re onto week 12 of our 300 picture book challenge. We didn’t get through all of our library books this week, but exchanged them for some more anyway in the hope that N will…
It’s been a busy week this week, and a mix of weather. Starting with the beautiful sunshine and warmth of Sunday, and finishing off with rain and a bit of a windy chill. Still, it’s been nice to be able…
