If you’re not quite ready to give over your cool, calm living space to a riot of primary colours, you’re in the right place. We love The Modern Nursery’s new improved puzzle playmats in muted tones, £45 for 16 32 x 32cm pieces. Designed to help guard against the inevitable bumps and bangs that crawling babies encounter, the tiles are… View Post
Bit of a cheat day today as this is made entirely from a kit – you’ll just need a glue gun and sticks, plus scissors and (potentially) wire cutters (although our big scissors worked fine on the wire). The Make a Rainbow macrame kit is by Helen Ribbons on Etsy and involves bending wire to make arcs, tying cord to… View Post
We’re so excited about this collaboration between German toy company Playmobil and car manufacturer Volkswagen, launching today. First up is this fabulous blue VW Beetle, £39.99,with removable roof, which comes with a three-person family on their way for a beach break, with surfboard, towel, sun umbrella, sand, sandcastle, bucket, spade and rake, plus coolbag and water bottles, all ready to… View Post
Sadly, I found out about these fantastic books just a little too late to include them in our Christmas Gift Guide, but I couldn’t not mention them. First published in September, the Great Lives in Graphics series (Button Books, RRP £9.99) reimagines the biographies of extraordinary people using infographics. This makes for colourful and easy-to-read books, packed full of facts… View Post
If you’re looking for a gentle Monday activity to kick off this week’s home learning, then I can recommend Studio Roof’s gorgeous printable leaf templates. Available to download for free in green, coloured or outline (in case you want to print on patterned or coloured paper). Just print, get the kids to cut them out and you have the basis… View Post
