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Education by Stealth: Top Tablets for Kids
Nowadays, it seems like kids are learning to use tablets before they’re even learning how to walk. If you’re tired of sticky strawberry jam fingers smudging your precious iPad – not to mention the heart stopping moment it falls to the floor – it might be time to consider buying your child one of their [...]
Iron Man 3 – Review & a smashing trailer
As a ten-year-old boy masquerading as a grown man, I’m in a good position to tell you why Iron Man 3 is the perfect summer blockbuster for the whole family to enjoy. Our favourite billionaire-inventor-super hero, Tony Stark, is back again and reeling from his time fighting aliens with the Avengers. Robert Downey Jr. reprises [...]
Easter craft: How to make a Palm Cross from a pipe cleaner
Palm Crosses always fascinated me: I could never work out how they were made. Every year the conundrum escaped me. And I confess I haven’t given them a thought until I was making pipe-cleaner dolls recently and it struck me that you could make a Palm Cross from a pipe-cleaner- Palm fronds being harder to [...]
5 Easter Craft Ideas
With the Easter Holidays upon us and at least 2 weeks off school.. many of us, may actually consider “getting crafty” – well, I do, but then I blog over at Red Ted Art, which is all about CRAFTS! And for me the key family celebrations of the year – Easter and Christmas are wonderful [...]
Red Nose Day idea: Bake some Lookie Cookies!
Looking for ideas for Red Nose Day? Try these yummy and oh-so-silly Lookie Cookies, designed by 5 year old Madeleine for Sainsbury’s Comic Relief Cookie Challenge. Mummy helped with the baking, stencil design and some of the icing. Elliot helped by tasting all of the ingredients before they went in. The golden syrup was tasted [...]
Exciting news! Me Books partners with Scholastic UK
Me Books and the team at Made in Me have earned a warm, cosy reading den in our hearts. Their passion for storytelling and creative use of technology to spark the minds of little children is second to none, and we cannot recommend their apps and stories highly enough. I could go on and on, [...]
Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful in UK cinemas March 8th
We’re off to see the wizard! Last year I somehow finagled my way into the secret Oz room at London’s Disney HQ and had a sneak peek at the storyboards, set design, trailer and costumes (oh, the costumes!!) for Disney’s new family movie, Oz the Great and Powerful. I was blown away… and not just [...]
Last chance to see DreamWorks Madagascar Live!
Stage Entertainment Touring Productions proudly presents the first arena tour of DreamWorks Madagascar Live!, on tour across the UK until 10 March 2013. If you haven’t already got your tickets, grab them quick as this show’s proving to be a real hit with the kids! If you’ve seen the show, be sure to write a comment [...]
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