Outside Activities

flower weaving

Flower Weaving

I have done a few weaving activities in the past, this time we have taken our weaving outside and have done some flower weaving. More

Sidewalk Ice Painting

The weather this week has been unbearably hot!  I really don’t enjoy the heat, I prefer a cooler temperature and the rain, I feel More

How to Play Beach Shark Toss

When your young ones have finally come out of the sea, the sand castles have been built and everyone has been turned into sand More

Colour Walk

Take Your Kids On A Colour Walk

Last week’s weather turned out to be pretty hideous with gala force winds, which put any plans of extended outside activities on hold. Thankfully, More

bubble wands

How To Make 2 Different Types Of Bubble Wands

I don’t think I have every come across a child who doesn’t like bubbles. Over the years we have done a number of different More

Laura Brand’s Peter Rabbit Nature Crafts + Tips For Exploring The Great Outdoors

Laura Brand is on hand with Peter Rabbit inspired nature crafts and her top tips on enjoying nature and the great outdoors with the kids.

sponge waterbombs

Sponge Waterbombs: Better Than Water Balloons

One thing that is guaranteed to happen during the summer is water balloon fights.  Especially as you can now get those sets that fill More

Mud pie kitchen play

Mud Pie Kitchen Play

Did you ever make mud pies when you were little? I loved making them, and playing in the mud in general. I remember spending More

Cheerios Bird Feeder

Cheerios Bird Feeder

Recently I have rediscovered the yumminess of Cheerios. My parrot also really likes to eat them, she gets very annoyed at me if she More

How to play noodle hockey

How to Play Noodle Hockey

One of my favourite sports I played as a child was hockey, one of the warm up games that we used to do was More

How to make geometric bubble wands

How to Make Geometric Bubble Wands

I apologise now for these instructions, it is a little bit tricky to explain how to make these geometric bubble wands, but bare with More

Giant Bubble Recipe

Giant Bubble Recipe

Although the summer has come to an end, we have finished off our holidays with these giant bubbles, because let’s face it, you can’t More

twig raft

How to Build a Twig Raft

With lock down and all the social distancing, it has meant that we haven’t been able to go to Scouts. That hasn’t stopped us More

cardboard frisbees

How to Make Cardboard Frisbees

When I was making the bean bag toss game I saved up the cardboard disks that I cut out from it. As I was More

plastic bottle wind spinner

Plastic Bottle Wind Spinner

While I am not advocating using plastic bottles, if you do happen to have a couple of them lying around then this plastic bottle More

rainbow ice chalk

Rainbow Ice Chalk

This spring has had such wonderful weather that we have been spending much of the time outside. It is always fun to take art More

DIY Tin Can Monster Feet Stilts

DIY Tin Can Monster Feet Stilts

Did you ever use stilts in your PE classes at school? I have really vivid memories of using them when I was in primary More

Nanny Anita’s Ice Sun Catchers

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

plant pot bird feeder

Upcycled Plant Pot Bird Feeder

It seems the colder weather has hit, we actually had snow last week! I don’t ever recall getting snow in Autumn before, spring yes, More

Digging for Gold by Nanny Anita

Both my charges love to dig; if they could they would spend the whole day outside digging up the flowerbeds looking for bugs and More

Bubble snakes

How To Make Bubble Snakes

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 More

Gardening with Kids

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 More

DIY bee hotel

DIY Bee Hotel

Did you know there are around 270 species of bees in the UK! Out of those 270, 250 of them are solitary bees that More

How to make a sock filter

Bushcraft: How to Make a Sock Filter

During the summer hoildays EC spent a week doing a bushcraft camp. He absolutely loves that sort of thing. The week afterwards he was More

cardboard box oven

Cardboard Box Oven

It is absolutely typically that when we need the sunshine to do an activity we get the first cloudy day in months! Though that More

nature table

Make A Nature Table with Nanny Anita

The weather recently has just been perfect, not too hot nor too cold. It was the perfect weather for going on a nature hunt in More