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Marble Painting

Marble Painting

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Marble Painting

Let your child create a modern art masterpiece!

Try out a simple activity involving marbles, paint and a tray! Miss 5 set this up all by herself whilst I was busy tidying up – I love that it was completely self-directed! She had done this at pre-school and so I discovered a little of what she gets up to during her days in class. I also loved that the method didn’t involve too much mess…

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Filed Under: Create Tagged With: Art, creativity, marble, modern art, painting

Miró Style – Blindfolded Drawing!

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Miro Set up

This is one of these activities that literally took under 5 minutes to set up and was such a GREAT unexpected hit! We have so many wonderful children’s art books, including The Art Book for Children (click here for our US readers) and whilst flicking through it, I was drawn to the page on Miró. It mentioned that “Joan Miró’s art teacher once asked him to try drawing simple shapes, like circles, rectangles, stars and triangles, wearing a blindfold.”…

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Naked Egg Science Experiment

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Naked Egg Science Experiment

Wow, this was LOTS of fun!! We came across the naked egg experiment on this blog recently and decided to have a go ourselves. It’s very simple – all you need is an egg, a container and white vinegar (and a small dose of patience ;-).

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Filed Under: Learn Tagged With: calcium, cells, experiment, learn, science

Rocking La Rochelle With Kids – Our Top Spots

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La Rochelle

Our First Trip to La Rochelle with Kids

We find the winter time in the Dordogne a little quiet and bleak so we’re always looking to find somewhere new to escape to and to explore during the month of January. Research usually takes place in November time and on this occasion Mr Den found an amazing deal with Novotel in La Rochelle: a family room with breakfast for 4 at €55 per night. Bargain.  So there we had it… deal done… we booked up two nights for the forthcoming January 2015. We were all set to discover La Rochelle with the kids….

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Filed Under: France, Travel Tagged With: aquarium, charente maritime, child-friendly, family, family travel, france, la rochelle, novotel, travel

Alphabet Photo Book

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Alphabet Book - Cover

Why not make a personalised alphabet photo book for your child? They will LOVE it and will be keen to keep practising sounding out letters and words whilst flicking through the pages of their very own personalised book.

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Filed Under: Create, Learn Tagged With: alphabet, create, letters, literacy, photos

Knife & Fork Painting

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We like to try different mediums and methods for painting. Today, I set the table and we did some ‘knife & fork painting’!

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Filed Under: Create Tagged With: Art, craft, painting, play

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