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About ofamily

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

Playdough playdough !!!

We love our playdough.  We have used it in a number of fun ways – making animal footprints, forming letters, hiding beads and our latest craze has been making playdough cupcakes. So now that we have 2 very large homeschooling … Continue reading

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Our Art Trolley

We do lots of arts and crafts and Pink will often sit quietly and create something with her paper and goodies (not always sure what she is creating) so I have been thinking about a way of keeping all the … Continue reading

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Introduction to the Stone age

We stumbled across the Julia Donaldson book Cave Baby (affiliate link) in our local library and after reading it Pink started asking about living in a cave and how did they survive without a stove and car.  And yes we … Continue reading

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Baking cookies with kiddies

We love baking in our house, my kids run to the kitchen as soon as I ask if they want to bake.  We have some family favourite recipes that we make a lot but we also like trying new things.  … Continue reading

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Our favourite free resources from Twinkl

The last few weeks I have been trying to get a rough plan of what we are going to do in the next 12 months and get a few things printed out and sorted.  I have downloaded a bunch of … Continue reading

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