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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.

Busy Mum of four & hacks queen Casey Major-Bunce @majormumhacks has over 400k followers on Instagram who love her fun & creative ideas.

Casey believes some of her natural resourcefulness and ability to think outside of the box result from her dyslexia, which she now considers her superpower.

• Fill an egg box
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My children are aged 8 and 7 now and ‘getting fit’ still tops my New Year's Resolution list, but it can still feel tricky to know what I can do with them around. I know I have the opportunity to exercise while they are at school, but there are a LOT of school holidays and I think it’s important to exercise with our children to make it a normal thing that can be a fun activity to do together...

Nothing beats being all cosy inside at this time of year, so these DIY crafts will make for a fun day or night with all the family! We have rounded up a few of our favourite Halloween crafts for kids, to get them in the spooky spirit. This Halloween, let your little ones channel their creative talents with a few of Charles Clinkard 's favourite simple spooky-themed crafts.

We have been learning about healthy and unhealthy foods, so today I set up a tuff tray to help my little one learn through play .

I got two pieces of paper and wrote ‘healthy’ on one and ‘unhealthy’ on the other, and then I put these sheets onto the tuff tray.

Then I got a good selection of our play food and set that on the tray too. I asked my daughter if she could put all...

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...

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...

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.

⬛️ 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...

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!

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

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.

• 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
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