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6 easy ways to level up your Easter Egg hunt

With Easter just around the corner many parents are starting to plan fun filled Easter Egg hunts for their children. Now, I have been doing Easter Egg hunts in my house for 7 years now, and I must admit I am really running out of new places to hide the eggs and ways to make it more fun! So, I have been doing a bit of research into some ways I can spice things up a bit.

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Lizz Banks

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Encanto themed treasure hunt

My children loved the Disney film Encanto, so I decided to make an activity using the characters today.

We have an Encanto busy book, which has all the main characters, which were the perfect size for me to use.

I followed the storyline from the film, where Mirabel was looking for her long-lost uncle, Bruno. I used our doll's house as the family home in the film and this is where the...

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🍦 Turn your smoothie into an ice lolly 🍦

We saw this ice lolly hack recently and had to give it a go! If you have drinks cartons in the fridge, like smoothies or orange juice, you can easily turn these into ice lollies to make an extra tasty, cold and healthy treat.

All you need to do is get your carton of choice, we chose a smoothie and cut a small slice in the top. The slice needs to be just big enough for you to slot an...

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Frozen Themed Ice Play Activity

As many of our regular readers will know, my two little ones LOVE ice play! So will the weather being so nice we have been doing lots more of it!

My daughter loves the Disney Frozen film, so we decided to combine one of our favourite activity ideas with our favourite characters.

I tried to make this one a bit different by freezing the characters in bigger Tupperware...

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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...

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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...

Katie sat at her sewing machine in K&B Sewing Machines

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...

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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...

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