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Nanny Anita is our resident Super Nanny. Having trained at the famous Norland College, in Bath, she has over 12 years experience, working all over the world with children from 2 months to 17 years old. Nanny Anita is an expert when it comes to keeping the little ones entertained and writes a column with Leonora called 'Get Crafty' for Little London magazine. Nanny Anita has been on hand to answer our reader questions, and she provides weekly arts, crafts and activities for families to do with their children at home. She really is a modern day Mary Poppins!

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Red Cabbage Christmas Painting Activity

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During October I saw this awesome Instagram post on painting using turmeric mixed with hand gel over some bicarbonate of soda mixed with water.  It had this reaction between the two solutions that made the colo...

6 Christmas Crafts For Kids To Do While Listening To Their Toniebox

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6 December, 2022
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Our resident craft expert Nanny Anita has been busy creating the ultimate Christmas crafts for kids - inspired by our favourite magical storybox and its gang of festive Tonies. "My youngest charge loves to l...
6 Crafts to do while listening to Tonies Christmas Collection

Nanny Anita’s Festive Snow Globes

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5 December, 2022
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How to Make Gruffalo Sugar Biscuits

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These sugar biscuits are one of my favourite recipes.  I normally find sugar biscuits too sweet, but these have almond extract in which really helps counterbalance the sweetness.  These make the perfect biscuit...
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Nutcracker Christmas Tree Decorations

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Pinterest is such a great resource for ideas. I have had some wonderful Christmas crafts pop up on mine for months now, and these Nutcracker ones by Fire fires and mud pies really took my fancy. But I thought, ...
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Potato Snowflake Printing with Tonies

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Tonies has a wonderful Christmas collection of stories to listen too, here are is a potato snowflake printing craft to do while listening to their Elsa Tonie. Make sure you follow my Christmas board on Pinte...
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Make sure that you follow my Christmas board on Pinterest, and don't forget to pin it for later. Is there anything better than the tradition of Christmas crackers over Christmas dinner? There have been a fe...

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Until I was 4 years old I lived in other countries, most of which were strict Muslin countries so they didn't celebrate Christmas, which meant finding Christmas decorations was near impossible. As a results my ...
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Pet Parlour Imaginative Play Set Up

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It has been a while since I set up an imaginative play scenario.  This pet parlour imaginative play set up was just what BB needed this week after school.  It was a very welcome distraction from the constant pl...
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