Travelling with Kids – Adventure isn't just about the plane trips!
Discovering the ideal present for kids, especially during birthdays and Christmas, can often prove to be a challenging task. However, subscription boxes for kids offer an excellent solution, particularly for those hard-to-gift kids who seemingly have everything! During Christmas and birthdays, I have personally found that gifting physical presents to my children becomes quite cumbersome …
When you’re stuck at home exercise is still extremely important. But how can you help to encourage exercise at home for kids? Exercise for kids is just as important as it is for adults and helps us to stay healthy, maintain good mental health, and have some fun. We’ve found a bunch of kid workouts …
If you are lucky enough to have a backyard have you ever thought about teaching the kids about the various birds that visit your property each day? Learning about the birds, about their own unique attributes and being able to differentiate between the various types is a great activity to enjoy. Have you ever thought …
Homeschooling. Unschooling. Virtual schooling. Online School. Educating. I’m still trying to get my head around the possibility of becoming housebound. It’s something I never imagined. Yet here I am collating activities each day, adding them to my list, sorting them into categories, so I have them at my fingertips if I need them. There’s nothing …
Commuting to work each day has developed my love for the humble podcast. I am able to concentrate on the road whilst also listening to Richard Fidler converse with his latest guest. While brainstorming ways to provide the kids with some listening activities at home I realised that podcasts would be perfect. I then set off …
All around the world, there are numerous cameras set up to capture local wildlife getting up to all kinds of antics. From cheeky galahs to burrowing penguins, there are a huge range of animals to observe in their natural habitats. Stuck inside for a while (thank you pandemic!) we’ve searched for the best live wildlife …
When the kids pooled their birthday money together to buy Nintendo Switch I was a little concerned that we were about to fall down a rabbit hole of solo and mindless gaming. But I was soon converted: Nintendo has somehow made everything about the Switch platform more than just screenplay. For the serious gamer, Nintendo …
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is all the buzz right now and no doubt your kids have come home excited about the latest project they have been working on at school. But how can you channel that excitement and enthusiasm at home, especially when you are a little time poor to whip up hands-on …
Children seem to have a natural affinity for photography. They gravitate towards cameras and if given half a chance, will grab it and take shots of various mediums. Both my kids love nothing more than pointing and shooting. I’m lucky that they seem to have a good eye so other than the occasional bizarre selfie, …
Living in the same suburb as our extended family has allowed Friday night catch ups to become a weekly feature on our calendar. It is an opportunity for the kids to get together with three of their cousins (when their powers combine, they are the Adventurous Five!) and hang out. Sometimes we grab a movie. We …
There is a new language that many education departments around the world are embracing and adding to their curriculum. It is fast becoming THE second language for students to learn with predictions that it will be the language skill business seek in prospective employees as the newest generation leaves high school. I am talking about …
Over the last few months, my kids have somehow wrangled an ongoing date Friday night movie celebration with their cousins. With no conscious effort, myself and my cousin have found ourselves alternating venues (her house or mine) and hosting these little get togethers. It’s an opportunity for the kids to eat a new meal together, watch …
Brought to you by Nuffnang and Disney Junior Whoever said that magic doesn’t exist has never picked up a book and read it. Books have the power to take the reader on a journey beyond the realms of reality. Better still, you can share the magic through a little read-aloud storytelling. Long before my children …