Four 'Eggcellent' Easter Crafts & Activities

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It’s official; Easter is just around the corner and the web is awash with brilliant children crafting and home-made game ideas for you to try over the holidays.

Here’s a round-up of favourites for you to try yourself:

Cardboard toilet roll bunnies

There are always fun ways to use an empty toilet roll tube, and cute toilet roll bunnies are a great way to craft and recycle at the same time. All you need is some pastel paints, PVA glue, a marker pen (for the face), some googly eyes (for fun stick-on eyes), and wooden lolly pop sticks (for the ears). [Read more…]

Vodka Cocktails With Sodastream

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We all know how hard working mothers are, and while we know that all of their efforts are appreciated it's still important to let them know this. That's why days like Mother's Day are so important! Even though the 21st Century version has evolved from the origins of Mothering Sunday when people revisited their 'mother' church on Laetare Sunday, to it becoming a day when domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mother church, usually with their own mothers and other family members, I think that it's important to have one day a year to spoil the special mother figure in our lives.

With Sodastream's help, I'm bringing you a range of vodka cocktail recipes for mums to relax with after 'the bedtime hour'.

Fruity vodka cocktails [Read more…]

365 #13

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Welcome to 365 Photo A Day Project linky. This linky covers round-up posts for the week or one of your favourite photos of the week. I've written a post providing tips for completing the project, always ask one of the regulars for help if you're stuck.

The 365 linky only works because of people linking to it and then contributing their thoughts to others' posts via comments. I can't emphasise this enough, it's the whole point of the linky!

Join in by entering the URL of your favourite photograph of the week (either a 52 or a 365 photo) and show some comment love to everyone else in the community. We've got a Facebook group, and now I've created a collaborative Pinterest board (if you'd like to collaborate, let me know and I'll add you).

  1. Choose your favourite photo from the past week and link it up below.
  2. Please add the badge to your linked-up post so that other people know how to find all the other fabulous entries.
  3. If you can spare five minutes to comment on a few other entries I know they'd appreciate it!
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Personalised Peppa Pig Book: 'My Mummy' (Review)

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The Boy's obsession with Peppa Pig is showing no signs of fading, with sticker albums being bought from pocket money, and the excitement of April being the month of Peppa Pig on Nick Jnr.

I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to that!

However, as much as I roll my eyes about it, there are far worse programmes that The Boy could like. Peppa's world is happy, innocent and full of childhood goodness. There's no malevolence, the porcine siblings learn about the world in which they live in a safe and humorous environment which children can relate to.

And this is why I'm a big fan of the personalised Peppa Pig books which are available from Penwizard. Seeing The Boy's face when he opens up a new Peppa Pig book which features himself alongside his favourite character is something to treasure, it really is. The books are stories of the most popular episodes, episodes that he is incredibly familiar with, and he loves seeing his name and stylised image in the pages amongst the well-loved residents of Peppa's world.

The latest addition to Penwizard's collection is the 'My Mummy' story book which celebrates how fabulous mummies are!

Peppa Pig personalised book

Personalising the book is incredibly easy and takes only a matter of minutes. The book can accommodate up to two children in the story, with the options to input full names, select hair, eye and skin colours and the mummy's physical features can be chosen too.

This would be a wonderful present for both mums and children for birthdays, Mother's Day or even Easter.

The 'My Mummy' personalised Peppa Pig book is available from Penwizard directly for £14.99

I received a copy of this book for the purpose of this review, my opinion is honest and unbiased.

How To Make A Hidden Treasure Book

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World Book Day may have fallen earlier this month, but when you have a four year old child who devours reading books at the rate of knots then every day is a book day! Seeing my son settle himself down to read a book independently is one of the most amazing things I've seen as a mum, and it is reassuring to know that he already has a love of books.

Every child has at least one favourite story, and this easy craft activity can be used to help explore the book and bring the story to life.

How To Make A Hidden Treasure Book 1

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365 #12

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Welcome to 365 Photo A Day Project linky. This linky covers round-up posts for the week or one of your favourite photos of the week. I've written a post providing tips for completing the project, always ask one of the regulars for help if you're stuck.

The 365 linky only works because of people linking to it and then contributing their thoughts to others' posts via comments. I can't emphasise this enough, it's the whole point of the linky!

Join in by entering the URL of your favourite photograph of the week (either a 52 or a 365 photo) and show some comment love to everyone else in the community. We've got a Facebook group, and now I've created a collaborative Pinterest board (if you'd like to collaborate, let me know and I'll add you).

  1. Choose your favourite photo from the past week and link it up below.
  2. Please add the badge to your linked-up post so that other people know how to find all the other fabulous entries.
  3. If you can spare five minutes to comment on a few other entries I know they'd appreciate it!
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