The Benefits of Your Child Reading on a Regular Basis
Discover the key benefits of reading for children, from boosting vocabulary to fostering creativity. Encourage a lifelong love for books!
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Unlocking Imagination and Creativity: The Ultimate Guide to Creative Play for Kids #AD
Creative play is not just a frivolous pastime but a crucial developmental tool for children. We have selected these toys for their benefits in unlocking imagination.
How to Boost Your Child’s Imagination
A child’s imagination should always be allowed to go further. It’s important when helping your child to explore these areas of their mind that they feel safe, secure and happy to develop their interests.
Feed their imagination with a Playhouse
Collaborative Post When I think back to my childhood, I can still remember my Playhouse (or Wendy House as they were known when I was a child). I didn’t have a wooden one; I had a plastic red and yellow one I loved. I would forever be taking my dolls and teddies into it for … Read more
Book Review: Night Zookeeper and The Spying Giraffes
I have always loved reading with the Beans, it’s something which we have done since they were babies but I have to admit I love it even more now when reading to Little Bean as she is at the age where she is interested in ‘real’ books with proper chapters. For the past week we … Read more
What activities do you do after school?
After school I tend to keep ourselves pretty busy to avoid the pleas for watching the TV or worse still the continuous arguments of children who are overtired from a day at school. On nice days (and often on some rainy days) we will go out for a walk, collecting leaves, looking for treasures or … Read more
National Tell A Story Day: A Story by Curly (13yrs)
Today, Monday 27th April 2015 is National Tell A Story Day and Mecca Bingo have challenged me to come up with my very own story. I have always enjoyed writing but one thing I often struggle with is writing a story, it just doesn’t come naturally to me. I can write about my thoughts and … Read more
Camping with the Gruffalo and Learning Resources
Yesterday started out like any normal day, in fact most of the day was normal until we returned home. Beanie Boy, Jelly Bean and I were playing in the garden (as you do). We set up a beach shelter in the garden as our ‘den’ and opened up a box of goodies from Learning Resources; … Read more
LEGO® DUPLO®’s World Of Play Event #DuploWOP
On Friday morning we waved goodbye to Little Bean as she went to school and then hit the road with Daddy, Windsor bound for a day of fun at Legoland Windsor for Lego Duplo’s World of Play event.