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About ofamily

Home educating family based in the UK. We try to make learning fun

Flower Drawing using Free Twinkl play dough mats

We have had these FREE Twinkl Flower playdough mats for awhile now but today instead of using our play dough on the mats we got out our STABILO 3-in-1 pencils and had a quick impromptu drawing lesson. My daughter often … Continue reading

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2D shapes verses 3D shapes

I have already done a bit on 3D shapes with my oldest but lately it has been my youngest who keeps asking about them.  He seems to have picked up a number of the names from his sister but he … Continue reading

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Simple Daffodil Spring Wreath

The kids have been noticing lots of daffodils lately and my daughter seems to be quite taken with them.  On Friday when we were out she spent ages just walking through a small field of them. So it was no … Continue reading

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Paper Plate and Sticker pictures for younger kids

My kids love stickers.  We started using stickers when my youngest had speech therapy and I saw how her therapist used them to encourage her to express herself.  My daughter loved the feeling of the stickers on her hand and … Continue reading

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Eggshell Tulip Picture

UPDATE – when I initially wrote this post the Tulip template that we used was free to download but the Activity Village website has since changed and the tulip template can now only be downloaded if you are a member. … Continue reading

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