With the sun finally coming out to play we have been loving spending more time outside! After months of being stuck inside due to the rain, it feels so good to feel the benefits of the great outdoors.
Apart from it feeling good to feel the sun on our faces, there are so many other benefits to getting outside with your family. We have put together a list of 9 of those benefits, to...
Brilliant bedrooms: How kids can express themselves through designing their room
It’s important that your children have a space to call their own at home. If you’re planning to redecorate or refurnish, Suzanne Pearce from Casa Bella Furniture discusses how involving your kids in their bedroom design can be a great way to let them express themselves .
Encouraging your child’s creativity might seem tricky nowadays. Kids can be so absorbed by screens now that there is no option other than technology to entertain them. But, to your delight, there are plenty of simple ways to engage your children in other activities that have many advantages.
Arts and crafts activities are a fun way to improve children’s creativity, and doing so can...
Introducing our BRAND NEW space explorer placemat to go!
Kids can colour-in and discover the solar system with this fun and educational placemat to go, complete with a set of 10 wash-out fabric pens. Featuring spacecraft, planets and stars on one side and the historic moon landing scene on the other, it’s perfect for out-of-this-world discoveries – there’s even a fun trick for remembering the...
We have been itching to get back outside in the sand pit to play with our diggers, but this rainy May weather has made that rather tricky! So, here at The Parenting Daily HQ we have had to be a bit more creative!
We do enjoy messy play in our house, but even I draw the line at bringing sand inside! So, I had a good rummage through our cupboards and came across a packet of Rice...
Julia Donalson’s book ‘The Paper Dolls’ has quickly become one of my daughters favourite bedtime story books. For those of you who haven’t read it, it is a beautiful story about a little girl who makes some paper dolls with her mum. The paper dolls go on an adventure and when they get broken, they go into the little girl’s memory.
I was keen to find an activity that I could do around the book...
After lots of homeschooling over the last year, I have been looking at different ways to make learning more fun. Painting is always a go-to activity for me as you can adapt it in so many ways and sneak in lots of learning opportunities. Today’s painting activity involves learning all about letters and letter formation.
This painting activity is so much fun and teaches children all about symmetry!
What you need:
Butterfly shapes cut out. I find it easiest to fold a piece of paper in half, then draw one half of the butterfly from the fold. When you then cut it out you will have a perfectly symmetrical butterfly.
My daughter absolutely loves painting, so I thought what better way to teach her numbers than through a finger painting activity ? This activity was super easy and your children won’t even know they are learning at the same time.
What you will need:
Paints. We always make sure we use washable paints as my daughter always ends up totally covered!
