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🌼 The April Edit by The Parenting Daily

April has been and gone — and we’ve loved soaking up a bit more sunshine this month (while happily eating our body weight in Easter eggs!).

We’ve rounded up some of our favourite activities, book reviews, and parenting articles from April — just in case you missed anything.

šŸ‘£ What Have We Been Up To? Family Fun at Dartmeet on Dartmoor

This month we headed off to Dartmeet on...

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My Mum Ran a 5K’ - New Children’s Author Shares A Powerful & Positive Pester Power Message

Cheryl Thallon, mum, editor, campaigner, author, and founder of Suddenly Publishing and ethical company Viridian Nutrition publishes her first children’s book this month. ā€˜ My Mum Ran a 5k ’ is written from a child’s perspective and it is a life-saving call to action for a trash-eating raccoon family.

First-time illustrator Charlie Tomkins has created a beautifully colourful, fully...

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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 •...

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Great books to support Children's Mental Health

Children’s Mental Health week runs from 6 th -13 th February 2023 and this year the theme is ā€œLet’s Connectā€ with a focus on making meaningful connections to support mental health. (Source: https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/)

At Summersdale we are passionate about supporting children’s mental health and over the past few years we have built a dedicated list of titles for children...

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A Squash and a Squeeze tuff tray activity for children

I love Julia Donaldson and the A squash and a Squeeze book is always a favourite amongst my kids. So, inspired by her fabulous books I have created this fun and educational tray activity, which includes some toy animals and a dolls house to represent the characters in the book. It's a great activity to encourage children to be creative.

What you need for the activity:

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