Jessica's painting of a fish

Pre-schools and painting

Jessica will be getting her funding for pre-school from January next year and so we have started to look at the pre-schools near us in preparation for this. We are…

Jessica's painting of Sophie

Mini Creations – Painting

With a rainy afternoon stopping us from going out and playing in the garden, it seemed a good moment to get the craft box out and do some painting instead.…

The finished birthday card for Godmummy Katy

Making birthday cards

Jessica loves sticking and helping to make birthday cards. It was Godmummy Katy’s birthday recently and so we got the card, stickers and colouring pencils out for Jessica to help…

Jessica playing with her sock puppets

Making Sock Puppets

One of the recent CBeebies magazines contained a Mr Tumble sock puppet craft kit. This proved to be very useful in providing Jessica with some distraction during the ferry journey…

A flower made from three cupcake cases, tissue paper, pipe cleaner and a button

Cupcake case flower – a simple toddler craft

This week’s craft activity at our Tuesday morning mother and toddler group was making a cupcase cake flower. These are quick and easy to make and great for helping with…

Mini Creations – Animals

Jessica loves painting. As Sophie was still snoozing when Jessica woke from her nap, it seemed an ideal opportunity for some mummy-toddler time and so out came the paints and…