Here is another great story by our in-house artist Giovanna Bindi, a true inspiration for London Mums & kids. Come & meet her at our art club Mondays in Putney.
In the deep forest lived four monkeys, mum, dad, boy and girl.
All the family liked jumping up and down the trees and play together.
One day the boy and the girl said to their mum and dad:
‘We would like to go around…
There’s nothing better than a spring jaunt in the great outdoors to bring the whole family together. Whether it’s that special Mother’s Day outing or an exciting Easter trip to remember, family days out can provide the perfect opportunity to capture some precious moments on film, to cherish forever.
But long car journeys, unpredictable weather, and you stuck behind the camera don’t…
Dear London Mums
What an exciting start of the year! A big group of London Mums met on the 9th floor of City Hall for an exclusive reception with the Mayor of London, lots of laughs, photo bombing and photo shooting with the spectacular London by night view with our photographer Michael from Memorygate. Check our our photos on our Facebook page. A night to remember!
More exciting than that is…
Welcome to our first photography basics blog post at London Mums. Every other week we’ll be going through some photo fundamentals to help you go from shooting everything in blind automatic mode to awesome photographer (or close enough).
To compliment these posts we also have a fortnightly weekly photo challenge. Every other week we’ll set a theme and your homework for…
Mums Charlotte and Fiona co-founded Woolly Mammoth in May this year. The company provides ready made art&craft packs that arrive through the letterbox twice a month (with a personalised label, we have found kids love receiving their own post) containing an imaginative make-and-do craft kit, photo suggestions, and either a story, song, quiz or game linked to that week’s theme. In our…
Take a look at this video where our little scientist six year old Diego attempts to make his very first volcano inspired by the history how Mount Vesuvius destroyed the Italian city of Pompeii.
Materials little scientist used:
Baking soda or bicarbonate of soda (the latter seems to produce a better eruption)
Vinager which you can colour using red food colouring for a more realistic effect
Paper…
Half of UK children think aliens have already visited Earth … Recent research shows that 41 per cent of children believe they have seen an alien or UFO compared to a quarter (25 per cent) of adults. Are you surprised with the result? Not really….
The study commissioned to mark the launch of the Ben 10 Omniverse toy range shows that 65 per cent of children believe there is…
Children are ditching traditional teddy names, such as George or Edward and replacing them instead with obvious descriptions like Doggy, Piggy and Teddy.
A survey of 1000 parents comparing teddy names over two generations revealed children are drawing on physical characteristics, rather than their parents convention of naming their favourite toy after a family friend or relative.
The survey…
My little girl, Little Snowflake just loves the brand new Blue Nose Tatty Teddy toys. So much so she has decided to draw, paint them and sell them on Ebay to try and collect them all.
Here are some of the Blue Nose Tatty Teddy art videos she has created so far.
PANDA BLUE NOSE
LADYBIRD BLUE NOSE
MILKSHAKE COW BLUE NOSE
PATCH THE DOG BLUE NOSE
LOVE BUG BLUE…
This book is certainly one of my favourite art & craft books I have ever come across.
The best thing about this art & craft manual is that it’s easy to follow instructions on how to make the most complicated things such as patchwork bibs, backpacks, pouches, button necklace, owl cushions and rug dolls. It is also very good to inspire and do your own art & craft. In fact we…