My son has always been mad about anything with four wheels, with monster trucks being his absolute favourite.
While I mostly leave him to play with these imaginatively, I do love trying to come up with bigger activities where his siblings can get involved too, and we can keep playtime fun and engaging.
How to Set Up This Monster Truck Ice Play Activity The night before:
If your little one is anything like my 8-year-old daughter, then makeup is probably already on their radar. My daughter is obsessed with all things beauty and fashion (which is equal parts really cute and terrifying!). She loves playing with children’s makeup palettes, but I’m not overly keen on her putting them on her delicate skin just yet.
With Halloween decorations slowly filling up the shop many parents and educators are trying to find some fun Halloween-themed activities to do with their children.
With my background as a Nursery Nurse I have always really enjoyed creating my own activities to do with my children, this has often involved hours of coming up with activity sheets and drawing everything out. This year I...
My children are learning about their times tables at the moment, so I have been trying to come up with some more creative ways to teach them.
Today I decided to get out the tuff tray and whiteboard pens and draw up a times table grid. For some reason, the tuff tray seems to add an extra bit of fun to any activity. I could have just drawn this out on a piece of paper, but my daughter...
Does your little one love to explore the world around them? Springtime, with beautiful blooms, baby animals, and sunshine-filled days, is a magical time for children to discover new sights, sounds, and textures.
Busy Bees , believe in fostering a love of learning through play, and sensory activities are a fantastic way to do this!
With the new year here and the February half-term quickly approaching, many people may be looking for new and interesting ways to keep their children entertained and away from a screen. The experts at Millets have compiled their top 5 kid-friendly ideas that the whole family can get involved in.
5 free family-friendly activities: 1. Fort/ den building and camping
If your little ones are learning about letters, we have the perfect activity for you!
For this activity, I got some pieces of A5 paper and in the centre, I wrote the letter I wanted my children to find, for example ‘a’ . I made sure I made the central letter quite large, so it stood out. Then around the rest of the paper I wrote the letter again several times, plus a few other letters....
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...
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...
