Calming Lavender Play Dough
I know that lavender is meant to be very calming and helps reduce headaches, but is there anyone else out there who has the opposite reaction to lavender like me? It is probably one of my least favourite smell...
Multicoloured Fishtail Friendship Bracelet
It is summertime, which means that it is friendship bracelet making time! At the beginning of the holidays EC and I were cleaning up his desk and found a friendship bracelet that I had made for him about 4 yea...
Flight School by Nanny Anita
This flight school is a great way to spend a screen free rainy day during the summer if you have run out of ideas. In our latest activity we took to designing our own planes and testing out our designs and the...
3 Basic Magic Tricks For Kids
This year for EC’s birthday he did a magic workshop. He has been into learning magic tricks for the last few years. My knowledge of tricks is rather limited. When I worked for Disney Cruise Line I did have to g...
Walking Paper Caterpillars
A few years ago, I did a blowing pom pom activity for toddlers that was to help strengthen the muscles used for talking. Today we have been doing a similar activity, but slightly more advanced. We have been m...
How to Build a Perfect Den
I had hoped that I could build this perfect den outside for my charges. However, the English weather had other ideas and decided to dump around a months worth of rain in a week. I guess then this den has been t...
How to Make Walking Paper Horses
I originally made these walking paper horses last year during the first lock down, but we did so many crafts and activities during those months, that I was absolutely overloaded with posts. That doesn’t really...
DIY Nursery Rhyme Puppets
While I was training at Norland I was placed into a baby room at a nursery for a term. It was a sweet little place and every morning we would take the babies into the preschool room for singing. In the centre o...
Loo Roll Marble Maze
Do you remember having those ball puzzles where you had to get the small ball to travel through a maze? I love them, and have a couple of them that I can put into my nanny bag when we are out an about. Becaus...
Wooden Spoon Puppets for Story Time
While I was training at college, we had to make up our own story bags; they would be full of props to go with a specific book. It is always fun to give children the props and for them to act out the story that ...
