5 Easy Halloween Costume Ideas to Make at Home
Halloween is not just a time for ghosts and ghouls. It is a time to dress up in the most bizarre, and sometimes humorous, costumes and trick or treat to your heart’s content.
Five Brilliant Games Tables for Indoor Play
As well as keeping the kids (big and small, alike) entertained for hours on end, indoor games tables are fantastic for developing spatial awareness, dexterity and improving hand/eye coordination. Here we explore five of the best games table available for your home.
The secret to finding a perfect Halloween costume
With Halloween just around the corner, it is time to start looking for the perfect costume for your little ones. Here are some simple tips to finding a costume that’s guaranteed to score your monsters a ton of sweets. When it comes to Halloween, spooky is great. Whether your child wants to be a vampire… Read more »
10 of the Best Rainy Day Activities for Kids
Despite a brief respite in the form of a mild Indian summer casting itself over the UK throughout September, the inevitable 7 months of rain are approaching fast. Keeping the kids entertained and excited during rainy days can be incredibly difficult and stressful – here are 10 great rainy day activities that will keep the… Read more »
The Haunted History of Halloween
Halloween. For most of us it’s all about dressing up, trick or treating and of course the sweets, but this ancient holiday once had a much greater meaning. Let’s take a journey through the haunted history of what we now know as Halloween. The word itself is fairly recent. It was first recorded back in 1735… Read more »
The Ultimate Guide to Organising your Child’s Bedroom
With the summer holidays over and the kids back in school, now is the best time to enter into the depths of their bedroom and have a good old clean and return some semblance of order. With no apparent start or end to the mess, organising a child’s bedroom can seem a daunting task but… Read more »
Crafty Ideas for Rainy Day Play
After one of the rainiest summers on record, you may be struggling with new ‘rainy day’ games to play during wet weekends and dreary evenings with the kids. Here are a few fun craft ideas which will keep them quiet and busy for hours on end. Green Finger Training Growing plants indoors is the perfect… Read more »
Back Garden Festival Fun
Every weekend at the moment seems to be playing host to another high profile musical or arts festival with the likes of V and the Carling weekender coming thick and fast. Tickets for these events can be astronomical (a family of four will have to pay £852 for the Leeds weekend, not far off the… Read more »
Ten Ways to Make the Most of the Summer Holidays
Rather than let the summer pass in a blur of BBQs planned at the last minute and accidently letting bees into the house, make the most of the time with the family. Here are just ten ways in which you could make this summer one to remember. Country Bike Ride Cycling is enjoying a renaissance… Read more »