Bee loves getting crafty and messy! I personally don’t but I don’t want to stifle her creativity so we do end up doing a lot of messy play. So we are always on the look out for things that will help keep her clean (or as clean as possible). Recently we were offered the chance
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Islamic Crafts – Sadaqah Jar
Making a Sadaqah Jar is something I have wanted to do with the girls for a while. And with Ramadan coming up I felt it was the perfect time to make it and get Munchkin to start contributing to it. Sadaqah (charity) is important in Islam and I want the girls to grow up knowing
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Messy and Sensory Play with Gelli and Water Beads
We have come across water beads at toddler group and I was fascinated by them. At toddler group Bee didn’t seem too fussed by them as she was busy playing outdoors but I decided to get some to use at home. I have never come across them before but apparently they are used with flowers
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Review: Weekend Box
A few weeks back we were sent a Weekend Box to review, but having had a few busy weeks we only recently managed to try it out. The Weekend box is a set of 4 activities you can do with your children aged 3-8, although it is not necessarily limited to doing them at the
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Tuff Spot Messy Play with Paint!
How about some messy play? Those 2 words, ‘messy play’ would strike fear into me and I would go all pale and start sweating. My legs would turn to jelly and I would need to sit down and take deep breaths. OK maybe not that dramatically but I am not a fan of messy play.
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Let’s get Crafty!
Art’s and crafts are so not my thing! At all! I don’t have a crafty bone in my body. I hated Art at school. The thought of paint, glitter, glue and paper all over the house brings me out in a sweat. Can you imagine the nightmare of cleaning up? *shivers* BUT I am on