Pulled String Art Nanny Anita 22 May, 2019 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living I have seen pulled sting art floating around on the internet for a while now. It’s pretty simple to do and creates some unique pictures. I did wonder if BB would be able to take part in it, but he did just fine...
Fine Motor Skills Finger Gym Activity Anita Flynn 20 May, 2019 Activities and Days Out, Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living It is really important for little ones to develop their fine motor skills. They need them to do things like doing buttons up and writing. There are lots of fun things that you can do to help improve fine motor ...
Paint Scrape Art Nanny Anita 15 May, 2019 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living Paint scrape art is a fun process in which children can make their own pieces of abstract art. It is such an easy one to do that even little ones can get involved. BB loved painting this way. In fact he sat doi...
Kinetic Sand Sensory Tray Nanny Anita 13 May, 2019 Activities and Days Out, Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living I done quite a few sensory trays with BB using rice, but I wanted to see how he would do with sand. He seems to have a love hate relationship with the stuff. When we’ve been to the beach he loves to play in it,...
Cutting Activity for Toddlers Nanny Anita 8 May, 2019 Activities and Days Out, Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living Over the last few weeks BB has become obsessed with cutting things. At meal times he now likes to have a knife rather than a spoon, and hates it if we cut his food for him. Unfortunately his skills are still ra...
Melted Crayon Lanterns Nanny Anita 6 May, 2019 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living If you have ever seen Disney’s movie Tangled, you will know that lanterns play a huge part of it. Disney know how popular they are and have incorporated a lantern parade into their Tangle themed restaurant onbo...
God’s Eye Craft Nanny Anita 1 May, 2019 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living If your children has ever been to summer camp chances are they have made a God’s eye before. And with summer camp season just around the corner I thought I would do it with my charges. I must admit when I worke...
Gardening with Kids Nanny Anita 29 April, 2019 Activities and Days Out, Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living I have been looking forward to Spring since the end of last summer. Not because I don’t like the autumn and winter months, in fact I much prefer them to the summer ones, but because I wanted to do some gardenin...
Junk Model Dragons for St George’s Day Nanny Anita 24 April, 2019 Arts & Crafts, Living In honour of the up coming St. George's Day (23rd April) my charges and I built our very own junk model dragons to slay, or not as the case may be. While I was prepping for this craft I decided to throw out any...
DIY Bee Hotel Nanny Anita 22 April, 2019 Activities and Days Out, Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living Did you know there are around 270 species of bees in the UK! Out of those 270, 250 of them are solitary bees that do not live in hives. As I am sure all of you have heard, our bee numbers are dwindling. Over th...
