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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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Zog and the flying doctors tuff tray

This has been another one of our favourite bedtime stories, so was another great choice for us to turn into a tuff tray activity.

What you need for this activity

Tuff tray
Princess
Dragon
Knight
King
A unicorn
A lion
A mermaid

We were lucky that we had a toy castle to use, but you can...

The Tiger who came to Tea tuff tray

The Tiger who came to Tea is such a lovely book, which we love reading at bedtime. As my children love it so much, I used it to make a tuff tray activity.

I had to be quite resourceful to create this tray and dipped into lots of different toy boxes to get all the characters, but it was well worth it for the fun we had.

What you need for your tuff tray:

• Sophie character •...

What the Ladybird Heard tuff tray activity

This tuff tray activity was lots of fun and helped get my children back into reading one of our much-loved bedtime story books.

What you need for this tuff tray activity

Tuff tray
Farmer
Farm animals – horse, cow, hen, dog, cats, duck, sheep, pig and goose
Two bad men – lanky Len and hefty Hugh
Getaway car
Ladybird

Colour themed playdate platters

Over the half term recently we have had lots of play dates with friends, where normally someone either provides us with food or we bring our own lunch boxes. But this half term we came up with a much more fun way to provide the food!

Whilst scrolling through TikTok I found a new trend where people come to parties with a different platter, each with a colour theme of food! Most of...

Home made Sweet Cones

We have recently had my son's birthday party and I have been trying to think of some party favours that the children would love but weren't full of plastic that would most likely end up in the bin.

My son loves sweets so I found these sweet cones, which I thought were perfect! They also had the added benefit that we could have some fun at home making them ourselves!

How to make...

Valentines Day Mess Free Painting

My Daughter loves painting and, whilst I enjoy a good messy painting session when we have the time, sometimes I need an activity which is a bit less messy and much quicker to tidy away.

My go to addition to my painting activity during this time is always cling film! Sounds strange I know, but trust me, it’s great for everyone!

With Valentines day approaching we have been...

How to keep your children entertained during the Teacher Strikes

Lots of parents I know are currently feeling a bit nervous about the upcoming Teacher strikes. Mostly because many of us won’t actually know if our children will be going into school until the morning of the actual day, due to teachers not being obliged to tell their school if they plan to strike beforehand.

Many parents will be faced with having to work from home, rely on grandparents or...

Valentines Day home made chocolate bar

We love making our own chocolate bars, mostly because we enjoy eating them, but they also make really nice gifts for friends and family.

So today we have been playing about with some chocolate bars for Valentines day. We are pretty pleased with the results, if you are too you can find out how to make them below.

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