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Top half-term indoor activities for kids

With the weather being so gloomy, it is challenging to keep children busy at home. Here are our top ten half-term indoor activities for kids. 1) EASY SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS – Check out our ideas for scientific experiments for kids to do at home (they are easy, don’t panic!). This is an activities boys will love but they are educational for all school kids and for some experiments…
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Half term activities for children indoor - FREE DOWNLOADS

Parents and carers will struggle soon to keep kids entertained for a whole week so we have collected FREE DOWNLOADS for you as ideal half term activities for children indoor. FREE ACTIVITIES SHEETS FROM DISNEY MOVIE TINKER BELL AND THE PIRATE FAIRY Click on the link to read London Mums’ review of the latest Disney Tinkerbell and the Pirate Fairy movie. You can take both boys and girls…
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Half term Activities - Pottering around in the Garden with Kids

Parents often send us suggestions for activities to do with children. What could be a more natural thing for a child to do? Children are naturally curious and love playing in the dirt – gardening is perfect. Plus you get to spend some longed for quality time with your children. From planting tiny seeds in the dirt to watching the plants grow into beautiful flowers or even better, something they…
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Ideal Half-term Activity! Calling All Budding Young Designers! Tower Bridge Launches ‘Design a Bridge’ Competition for Kids

This national competition seems a very cool idea to get kids engaged in creative activities during half term. My son is already very excited to have the opportunity to show off his engineering skills at work 🙂 To celebrate its 120th birthday this year, Tower Bridge, the most famous bridge in the world, is delighted to announce the launch of an exciting new national competition for 6 to 14 year…
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Educational fun for the whole family

Parents always wonder how they can keep their children involved in educational activities over the school holidays or even throughout the school term. The more involved everyone gets the less likely you’re chlid will feel like they are being punished or being treated differently. Using expressions like “it’s time to work on”, or “you’re not working hard…
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‘Grow’ your child’s imagination

A few weeks ago I met up with best-selling authors, David Almond and Sally Gardner to discuss their award-winning children’s books, ‘Skellig’ and ‘Maggot Moon’. Both books celebrate the power of the child’s imagination: in ‘Skellig’, Mina learns about life through William Blake’s angels and baby blackbirds while in ‘Maggot Moon’ Standish…
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Fun and creative ways to organise your work and .... life

3M Post-it Notes are ideal for adding a splash of colour to your messages and reminders. With such a big palette of shades on offer, there’s sure to be a hue to match your message… and brighten up your desk space too! Instead of using a dull, mundane notepad to jot things down in, I’ve found that using 3M Post- it Notes has been really useful for work related planning and exploring my…
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Feel Confident in Your Choices

I overheard a conversation some months ago that I’ve taken time to think about. A group of women meeting for coffee were discussing their interior designers and it seems, like car salesmen and estate agents, we’re not much liked: bossy and unbending, seemed to be the general consensus, not prepared to listen and highly-strung was another comment and the one that stung, anyone can do…
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Transform that Old Thing

Television scheduling is a mystery of the modern age. How is it that I can sit at home on a Saturday night (err, because I was out on a Friday…) with nothing to watch and then bizarrely, a series by my favourite, Kirstie Allsopp can charge across the screens in the middle of the summer with barely a fan fare? Fill your Home for Free wasn’t like any other design programme Channel 4…
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Inspirational story of a teenage entrepreneur! Crawford Johnston and his Creative Writing Magic Money Cards

The new school autumn term has begun with good news for one young entrepreneur. A bulk order from a German school for his writing aid to improve literacy ability arrived on his laptop. Here is the inspirational story of Crawford Johnston and his Creative Writing Magic Money Cards. From a modest beginning when Crawford Johnston first developed his Creative Writing Magic Money Cards to advance his…
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