Kids Activities

Ice Skating Rink for Lego Figures

27 January, 2020

Coming up with winter inspired crafts and activities for after Christmas is always hard. Mainly because in my Christmas is the winter season. Coming up with an idea for a magazine I write for was really tricky,...

Nanny Anita’s Ice Sun Catchers

Nanny Anita

22 January, 2020

Activities & Days Out, Crafts & Activities, Living

This probably works better when the weather is colder as the sun catchers will last longer

How to Make Elephant Toothpaste

Nanny Anita

20 January, 2020

Blogger, Crafts & Activities, Living

Elephant toothpaste has been an experiment I have wanted to try for ages. However, I thought getting my hands on the chemicals would be tricky and that maybe it would be too dangerous to do with the kids. Turns...

Nativity Story Stones

Nanny Anita

2 December, 2019

Blogger, Christmas Activities, Crafts & Activities

I’ve been rather obsessed with making things out of stones over the last few months, they make wonderful story stones. My first set are Nativity story stones for BB. This is the first year that he has really be...

Rainbow Stacking Stones

Nanny Anita

18 September, 2019

Crafts & Activities, Living

Stacking stones are meant to be very calming. I didn’t really put this activity together for that reason (although if it helps calm YC and EC when they’re angry then that is a bonus). I put it together as a bui...

Ping pong ball target practice

Nanny Anita

26 August, 2019

Activities & Days Out, Blogger, Crafts & Activities, Living

BB has always shown a love for using sprayers and has amazing accuracy. He has managed to get me right in the eye many a time while I’ve been doing the washing up. This ping pong ball target practice was one f...

Spy Training: Mission String Maze

Nanny Anita

21 August, 2019

Activities & Days Out, Blogger, Crafts & Activities, Living

A few months ago EC said to me “Anita, do you remember that time we did the spellings under the table?” It took me a few moments to realise that he was talking about the time I made a string maze under the tabl...

Crayon Printed T-Shirts

Nanny Anita

19 August, 2019

Activities & Days Out, Blogger, Crafts & Activities, Living

Another great summer activity is decorating T-shirts. I used to do this a lot when I worked in summer camps, although it tended to be the dying them. This week we had my charge’s cousins staying with us, so the...

How to Play Pong Hau K’i a Traditional Chinese Game

Nanny Anita

12 August, 2019

Activities & Days Out, Blogger, Crafts & Activities, Living

Pong Hau K’i is a traditional Chinese (although it is known by other names in different countries) board game for 2 people. I first saw this game on the blog what do we do all day and thought how good it would...

How To Make Bubble Snakes

Nanny Anita

24 July, 2019

Activities & Days Out, Blogger, Crafts & Activities, Living

Who doesn’t like bubbles? I think they bring out the child in everyone. These bubble snakes had everyone joining in. Be sure to follow my outside activity boardoutside activity board on Pinterest for more id...

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