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!
I really like reproducing some of the Christmas decorations that I had on my Christmas tree growing up. One of my favourite were these pine cone angels that my parents got in South Korea when we lived there. We...
Earlier this year we used did an Easter tissue paper painting activity. The one difficulty with using tissue paper to paint with is that not all tissue paper bleeds its colour out. I was thinking of how to get ...
It is that time again to make some Christmas cards for teachers and friends. Each year I ask my charges how many cards they want to make, and each year that number gets bigger and bigger! This year’s design is ...
Every year we seem to make at least one Harry Potter inspired Christmas tree decoration. At some point I will be able to decorate my whole tree as a Harry Potter themed one. Pretty soon after making last years ...
Recently I have rediscovered the yumminess of Cheerios. My parrot also really likes to eat them, she gets very annoyed at me if she sees me eating them and I haven’t offered her any. Chances are she’ll throw it...
Continuing on in our series of stem challenges, I challenged YC and EC to build Lego wind racers.
Make sure you follow my STEM board on Pinterest for more ideas. Don’t forget to save the pin for later.
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Every autumn I find that my pockets and bags are filled with the remains of leaves that my charges have given to me. This year I have been much better at pressing the leaves as soon as we get home. That way I c...
This craft is to create the poppy fields left on the battlefields across Europe. It is just a small token of remembrance and thanks for all of those who have ever given the greatest sacrifice in protecting this country.
Exploring new painting techniques with YC and EC has been one of the best things about lock down. Our newest method was all about drop painting with inks.
Make sure you follow my painting board on Pinterest ...
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