When I was young, preschool kids TV meant Playschool each morning and Bagpuss or the Flumps if I was lucky. We certainly had no dedicated Kids TV Channel.

It is probably impossible for children today to imagine only 3 TV channels and no kids TV on a Sunday. Black Beauty was the best Sunday TV had to offer in my day. Read more »

This is a really quick and easy craft idea. 3yo loves making this crown. It is really versatile as it can be made for a special occasion like Christmas, or just for fun with any odd bits of paper or card. Cutting out pictures from magazines looks good. As does painting the crown all different colours.

Here is a step by step guide to making the paper plate crown – which we made here as a festive Christmas Crown.   Read more »

I really wasn’t sure if sending 3yo to the naughty corner was working. He sometimes puts himself there. Sometimes tries to send me there. Then he sent his Teddy there, this is the story…  Read more »

Making Pudsey Bear Biscuits!

Children In Need always seemed like a worthwhile charity, and a great night of daft TV – then I had a baby of my own. I felt so lucky to have such a healthy, happy baby.

Now, Pudsey is not just on our TV screen – he has come into our kitchen!

Here we are making Pudsey Bear biscuits   Read more »

The best laid plans of mums… never go according to plan.

2yo loves making pretend cups of coffee, with pretend sugar, and pretend milk from the pretend fridge (”Mummy – close door properly!”) My idea was to have a pretend picnic. So out came the play cups, plates, rug – everything you need for some good pretending. Oh no… I had made things a bit too realistic and had to go all the way. Pretend food was not in order. How can Teddy eat pretend food Mummy?   Read more »