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How to Help Your Lawn Survive the Six Week Summer Holidays

For many families, the six week summer holiday is packed with days out, holidays, barbecues and children making the most of the garden. While that's exactly what a lawn is for, it can also leave it looking tired by the time September arrives.

The good news is that a few simple steps before and during the summer holidays can keep your lawn healthy without spending hours maintaining it....

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Chocolate cornflake cake filled Easter eggs

If you love chocolate then this is definitely the Easter treat for you!

We made a simple chocolate cornflake cake mixture , then we added some sprinkles and crushed mini eggs.

We found these great Easter egg moulds @hobbycrafthq which we poured melted chocolate into, then put in the fridge to set.

Once the chocolate eggs were set we carefully removed them from the...

Easter bunny meringue nests

These Easter bunny nests are so cute and super easy to make!

What you need:

🐰 meringue nest

🐰 whipped cream

🐰 chocolate bunny

🐰 mini eggs

🐰 chocolate shavings

How to make them:

Squirt your whipped cream on top of your meringue then place your chocolate bunny and eggs on top of the cream. Then grate some chocolate I’ve the top. That’s it...

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5 Top Tips for Teaching your Child to Sew

If you would like your child to learn how to sew, Katie of K&B Sewing Machines has prepared some fantastic tips on how you get them started.

Sewing is an activity that is not only fun to learn but that is also an invaluable skill to have as you progress through your life. Being able to sew allows you to fix those most loved toys or clothes, sew all the badges on to uniforms and towels and...

5 tips for starting your child's reading journey, with Phonics from Robot Reg.

Learning to read is an essential skill for children. It helps them access knowledge and opens up a world of possibilities for them. But teaching a child to read can be a daunting task for many parents. Especially if your child doesn't already have a love of books and prefers other kinds of play.

Fortunately, there are many resources available to help parents guide their children in...

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Match the number to the Word activity

My children are loving maths activities at the moment, so we have been making some simple maths tuff trays. For this one, all I did was write the numbers 1-10 in both numerical and word form. Then I asked my children to draw a line to match up the words and numbers. This taught my children so many skills, like number and word recognition, plus they had lots of fun doing it.

If you...

Fish adding and taking away tuff tray

My daughter is really loving maths at the moment and asked me if I could write her some sums for when she came home from school.

I decided to make this a bit more fun by using fish instead of numbers. By using an object instead of a number it also meant she needed to practice her counting skills.

My drawing skills aren’t fantastic so fish seemed to be an easy to thing to...

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Times table grid 1-12

My son loves learning his times tables at the moment, so I thought I would make him a times table grid for him to fill in.

What you need for this activity

⬛️ Tuff tray or paper 🖊️ pens suitable to your surface 📏 ruler if you want the lines to be really neat

The longest part of creating this activity was creating the grid! If you want this to look perfect you can use a ruler...

Monster Truck slide painting

My son loves making ramps out of all kinds of things to push his monster trucks down, so I thought I would turn it into a painting activity! What you need: 🚘 a ramp - we used a slide but you can use any kind of ramp you can find 🚘 tuff tray or something similar to catch the monster trucks at the bottom of the ramp 🚘 paper 🚘monster trucks 🚘sellotape 🚘paint How to do the activity

🚘 I used...

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Learning to spell with your car loving child

Trying to get my son away from his cars to sit firm and learn about cars was always really tricky, so I decided to bring the learning to his car play mat! My son really loved this activity and didn’t even realise that he was learning at the same time, which is always a bonus!

What you will need for this activity

🚘 a car playmat. If you don’t have one you can always try making one...

Learning to count with bricks and cars

My son loves cars so we try to include them in lots of our learning activities. For this activity we are learning about counting and measuring.

For this activity you need :

Different sized cars, we used a variety from big trucks to little sports cars
Lego blocks, the smaller bricks are better as you will use more and encourage them to count more.
Paper