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The Prompt: Week 50 – Focus
I stumbled across “The Prompt” for the first time last week, as I was scrolling through my G+ feed. The idea behind “The Prompt” is to focus on your writing, rather than the images you use to illustrate your words. This sounded like a really good writing challenge for me, as my blog heavily relies … Read more
30 Indoor Activities for Kids
30 Indoor Activities for Kids We’ve been enjoying a lot of indoor activities this week. It’s been a wet and dreary start to the New Year over here and I have been busy potty training Little Miss B (so far so good), so we have not wanted to venture out too far. It’s also been … Read more
Best Kids Activities of 2014
Bubble wrap Jellyfish Happy New Year! Today we are looking back at our best post from 2014. Hosted by Mamasmiles, we have teamed up with a whole bunch of fantastic kid’s activities bloggers to share our “Best Kids Activities Blog Posts 2014” with you to entertain, help and hopefully inspire you this New Year. Bubble … Read more
Merry Christmas and Thank you to you all…
The kids have broken up from school now for the Christmas holidays, so we are looking forward to a few days rest to recover from a busy end to the term and to get ready for our family Christmas celebrations. The highlight of the week has definitely been watching the two boys in their school … Read more
How to make a Rainbow Cake
How to make a Rainbow Cake When I was growing up my mum would always bake us home-made birthday cakes. My favourite was a “Fairy House Cake” she made and decorated with trifle finger sponges for the roof and biscuits and sweets for the windows and doors. She also became famous for her “Hedgehog Cake” … Read more
Simple Christmas cards for kids to make
We’ve been busy making a start on our Christmas cards this week. Sending actual Christmas cards during this digital age is a tradition that needs to be nurtured and maintained for future generations. So many people now turn to emails and text messages in place of sending cards and it’s such as shame. Yes it’s … Read more
Cotton Wool Ball Butterflies
We had yet another wet day over here on the East coast of Ireland yesterday. So I set up a butterfly painting activity for Bella to help brighten up our morning, whilst the boys were in school. I’ve been doing a lot of colour recognition activities with Bella over the last few weeks and I … Read more
Halloween Arts and Crafts Ideas for Half-term
“In comes the skeleton, in comes the ghost, in comes the monster munching toast” We’ve been hearing this rhyme a lot this week, in the run up to my little Junior Infants school Halloween party. They joined up with their buddies from 6th Class yesterday for some singing and traditional Halloween fun and games. I … Read more