Creative Bubble Wands
After making our own bubble blowers with straws, The Boy wanted to see if he could find anything else to use to blow bubbles.
So we raided the kitchen utensils!
How To Throw A Frugal-Friendly, Yet Awesome Birthday Party For Children
The endeavours of life often overwhelms parents. And thinking about planning a birthday party for the children with fun and frugality as the goals becomes too much.
Unfortunately, many parents face a financial pit around their children birthdays. You convince yourself that parties happen once a year – so you go all out.
But once the balloons pop, the treats are devoured and the tunes end, reality hits you. [Read more…]
Homemade Bubble-Blowers
The Boy absolutely loves bubbles and the more that can be blown at a time, the better. He's a huge fan of bubble blowers which produce several at a time, and so we decided to have a go at creating out own multi-bubble blower using drinking straws.
Rainbow Bubbles (Sensory Play)
Continuing my series of bubble activities that I'm featuring this week, today's simple play activity uses basic craft ingredients and a couple of items from the kitchen.
Rainbow bubbles is a fun sensory activity which really allows the child to lead their learning and exploration of the materials. I set this out for The Boy (5 years) and his cousin (8 years) and both of them spent nearly an hour making 'potions' and comparing concoctions.
Pros and Cons of Moving Your Children Abroad
This is the time of year, following holidays to exotic and balmy locations, that parents often debate moving abroad and starting a new life for their family. I know when my own brother emigrated to Australia last Summer that it was something he and his wife had debated and researched a lot in the preceeding years. In this post, guest-writer Christina Moore explores various reasons for and against moving children to another country.
Making the decision to move is hard, especially when children are involved. For some children, making the transition from one home to another is easy; for others it's a challenge. So when it comes time to make the move out of country, parents face even more challenges.
Sock-Snake Bubbles
If there's one childhood activity which is guaranteed to appeal to the inner child in all of us, it is blowing bubbles!
Sock-snake bubbles are one of the many different ways of playing with bubbles which gives a really fun result. And they use resources which are easily found around the house.
Days 208 – 214 of Project 365
School's Out For Summer (Netflix Stream Team)
School is well and truly out for the Summer and we're a week or two into the extended holiday with our little lovely ones. The Summer holidays seems to send parents one of two ways; either counting down the days until the new term starts, or (like me) desperately trying to fill as much fun in as possible and dreading the return of September.
Amongst all the wonderful and unstructured learning through play activities which dominate most of the holidays, there are plenty of opportunities to ensure our children are still learning away from the classroom without homework to prompt them. And even the best intentioned mother has to give a little bit of televisual cool-down time during frantic moments.
Don't despair, it doesn't have to necessarily turn into a cartoon-fest, Netflix have a huge array of programmes aimed at helping our children learn.
5 Tips For Taking Your Children To A Photographer
Nearly every parent has been in the situation; they take their children to the portrait studio with the idea that it will be quick and painless and hey, the studio said it only takes fifteen minutes, right?! Wrong. Maybe your child is a photographer's dream and she'll run home telling all of her friends of your amazing child who posed exactly how she wanted the whole time, but that's just not realistic. In fact, even your photographer knows that's not realistic and they don't expect it. [Read more…]
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