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Sea-themed crafts for preschoolers

We’ve been focusing on sea-themed crafts over the past week, creating a variety of fish and other sea creatures out of paper plates, plastic cups and bottles and toilet roll…

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The futility of trying to catch up with blogmin

Hubby’s away and I swear the children have a sixth sense for when I have a huge list of things to do once they’re in bed. To say bedtime has…

From the mouths of babes #23

From the mouths of babes is a weekly linky which invites you to share a post, old or new, about something your children have said. Those adorable mispronounced words, the…

Silent Sunday

Black & White Photography Project #48

Golden lock gates

When we were compiling our list of gold postboxes to visit around the country as part of our Olympic and Paralympic gold postbox challenge, we also discovered that two sets…

Friday Fabulous Five #38

The Friday Fabulous Five is my regular feature where I share five of my favourite posts that I have read in the previous week – posts that have made me…

The Friday Focus 05/06/15

A combination of hubby having been away in Germany since Sunday morning, several unsettled nights and bedtime struggles, getting the monthly church magazine put together for printing plus some much-needed…

Making a bracelet using a pipe-cleaner and foam beads

Threading foam beads on to a pipe-cleaner is a great activity for toddlers and pre-schoolers as there are so many things they can learn through doing it. Threading the beads…

Easing eczema – what worked for us

Sophie has suffered from eczema since around the time of her first birthday. At first I thought the dry patches on her wrists and cheeks were just irritation from the…