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Christmas card with pop up pile of presents

The kids and I have been making some Christmas present cards.  We tried something new this year – it a Christmas card activity that I did when I was at school.  I liked the idea of trying this as the … Continue reading

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Number Peg cards

We are going through a bit of a number peg card craze in our house lately.  Blue has done a number of different ones. (links are all below the photos) Number recognition cards (1 – 10) peg activity  (FREE on … Continue reading

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Baking Shortbread biscuits with the kids

Pink has been reading the Katie in Scotland book recently and wanted to make some shortbread biscuits like they eat in the book.   Lucky for me my mom had a lovely recipe for shortbread biscuits so a rainy morning inside … Continue reading

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Percy the Park Keeper

Blue finally discovered the Percy the Park Keeper books (written by Nick Butterworth).  We have some of the books around the house as Pink loves any story that involves kind animals but until recently Blue was not that interested.  Now … Continue reading

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Home made scratch art

Over the weekend Pink asked to do some scratch art (she meant the ones that you can buy in the shop), we did not have any so we decided to make our own. We started off by creating blocks of … Continue reading

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