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Christmas Present Craft TRH I asked around for ideas of what things people associated with Christmas (for the Christmas TRH Book Advent) and have to say that presents came up a lot. Making a toilet roll holder (trh) into a present was really easy and a good, cheap, way to help teach your children the … Read more
Christmas is a time for food, cooking and families. What nicer thing to cook with the children than gingerbread men (or women). Or just to let the younger ones decorate. Not only does gingerbread taste so good, but it smells so good too – and is so typically Christmassy.With this in mind I thought that … Read more
Shloer very kindly invited me and a few fellow bloggers to a lovely afternoon of drinking. There were bottles everywhere with extra sparkle, lots of bubbles and popping corks; served in a celebratory-style bottle in two delicious flavours Shloer Celebration White Bubbly and Shloer Celebration Pink Fizz. They kindly invited some lovely ladies over from … Read more
Today I have a Guest Post from Aly from the blog Bug, Bird and Bee as part of the Christmas TRH Book Advent, which today we are on day 15. How the Grinch Stole Christmas Over the last couple of years we have built up quite a collection of Dr.Seuss books.We have a number of favourites, but … Read more
Christmas Craft ideas suitable for young children without making a lot of mess
THE CROODS is the Dreamworks Animation UK box office blockbuster hit, earning over £26 million! If, like us, you missed it then you will be pleased to know that Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment are releasing it on DVD and Blue Ray just in time for Christmas! By that I mean the 9th December – so … Read more
I wanted to include a variation of a “book” being performed, as I feel bringing the story to life can really encourage reading. Christmas is a great time for families, and what better way to spend time as a family at Christmas than to go and watch your local Panto. Once again The Roses Theatre delivered an … Read more
Unlucky for some number 13 of our Christmas TRH Book Advent – let’s keep it simple and not too messy – so we decided to go for a Bauble. It was an idea I had seen to make a Christmas decoration that involved fastenings that I knew we didn’t have (my son tried to make … Read more
When it comes to Christmas my boys Lists to Father Christmas mainly consist of new computer games and/or consoles. So I really like to help them balance it back out by adding in some things to encourage them to interact with people again. Board games (not that all of them have “boards”) are a great … Read more
You may recall that I was preparing for my family to go and have a Christmas photo shoot. That one of my ideas was about dressing up. Well we thought that we would go for a real Christmassy feel and take our onesies. What I like about photo shoots these days is that you can … Read more