We’re having so much fun exploring all the kids gardening activities we can come up with using chalk this week. Taking One Added Ingredient and introducing it to lots of different areas of play...
Yesterday I was out in the garden, paint brush in hand, at 8.30 in the morning. Seizing the cool part of the day I refreshed our garden chalk board with a new coat of paint. In our Victorian house we...
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My children see magic in mud. Do yours? We’re not the only ones who enjoy the simple things in life. Check out these simple – yet oh so clever – play and learning ideas from last we...
The girls and I were invited to join Wild Rumpus for a trip to The Spellbound Forest at the weekend. Created by the team behind the Just So Festival, The Spellbound Forest weaved it’s magic thr...
How do you go about talking to children about cancer? When someone in the family is facing cancer and you are dealing with a painful range of emotions yourself it can be hard to know how best to invo...
This week we’ve been watching our caterpillars grow and grow and grow. We might have butterflies this time next week! What have been you been doing with your kids this week? Share and idea with...
As part of our Kids Art Explorers project this month we are trying out different places to create art. Instead of so often starting out with a small piece of white paper we’re trying out differ...
Walk to School Week Did you know next week is Walk to School Week? We walk to school everyday, come rain or shine, and are very lucky to have a tree-lined cycle path that runs almost the whole route ...
Do your kids love Lego? Just manipulating the pieces, snapping them together and pulling them apart is a great work out for fingers, helping to develop fine-motor skills, but Lego is a classic open-e...
Hello again! I missed you last Sunday as we were enjoying a Scree-Free Week (did you see our 100 ideas?) Glad to be back and bringing you some super fun ideas again – check out the fizzy dino t...
This week the Nurturestore kids have been turning yesterday’s news into today’s art. Stop by next week and I’ll show you what they came up with – it’s colourful! We miss...
Never mind the contents, empty cardboard boxes are such treasures. My daughters have been know to ‘reserve’ cardboard boxes as they arrive, especially if they are extra big or unusual sha...
One of the ideas we had for our Screen-Free Week was to have a rummage around on our craft shelves to see if there were any long-lost art materials that we might like to try. We struck gold with two ...
Have you heard the research that the best art for babies is bold black and white images? The contrasting pictures are believed to help a baby focus their vision and develop their still fuzzy eyesight...
Just as a healthy diet can certainly include cake, so a balanced childhood can include screen time. Family movie nights, skyping with Grandma and typing stories on the laptop are all great fun. It...
Happiness reigns in the Nurturestore household this week, where love blossoms between the unlikeliest of play mates. My picks from last week: a load of old junk You know we love a good recycle, upcyc...
{Kids Art Explorers:} This year we are undertaking lots of different art experiments. We’re exploring materials, techniques and styles and seeing where our creativity takes us. We’re celebrating the ...
We are very fond of Pippi Longstocking in our house and her inspiration is seen in lots of different ways – from her encouragement to climb trees, through the idea that fun and creativity is ra...
Do you run? I don’t mean running around after the kids all day – I know we all do that – but rather running for your own health and fitness? A couple of years ago I was running thre...
This week the NurtureStore kids discovered what happen when your water beads are left outside and get caught in a shower of rain. What have you been playing this week? Join the Kids Co-op and share a...
Remember the indoor meadow we grew as one of our Earth Day activities? This week it has become the indoor / outdoor stage for a theatre production using shadow puppets. Home made puppets are some of ...
A special post for bloggers today – would you like to win an trip to the Olympics? Samsung have asked me to let you know about a competition they are running to find a Samsung Global Blogger, w...
This month the Kids Art Explorers have been enjoying a No Paint Brushes Allowed project. Creativity is encouraged when you set aside your everyday materials and try something different. The Kids Art ...
The inspiration for our spring chicken play dough comes from the clutch of ten eggs which have been resident in the girls school for a week. The eggs have been in an incubator in the reception class...
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