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Regular readers will know we colossal Playmobil fans in our house. When we moved home this was our collection: It has grown considerably since then, and...

No Screen Required With “My First Coding Book”

This cute little book is designed for the smallest potential coders. Without a keyboard or touchscreen in sight, children learn, among other things, the...

8 Tricks to Step Up Your Calligraphy Game

Calligraphy has been around since approximately 600 B.C. if you can imagine that, but it’s having a serious revival. Modern-day scribes have repurposed and...

Outdoor Activities For Kids

Why do we need to make an effort to set up outdoor activities for our kids? Aren't the little horrors supposed to need constant...

Let’s Vase It: How To Make A Chic Concrete Flower Vase

Materials Concrete Mix: Worldwide, concrete is used more than any other manmade material, but you do not have to be a construction worker to get...

Deliciously Sniffable Pumpkin Spice Play Dough

Spending a fall afternoon at home with the kids provides endless opportunities for pleasure or pain. So, if you are looking for ways to...

Boredom Busting Science World

If you are looking for things to do in Vancouver with kids, one of the first things you'll hear is "Take them to Science...

Rediscover Owlkids

If you haven't had the opportunity to check out everything Owlkids has to offer these days, you, and more importantly your littles, are missing...

Our Favourite “Coding for Kids” Books

Learning to code provides kids with more than just the skills required for programming jobs. Coding is not only a practical skill, but it has...

5 Social Activities To Share With Kindergarteners

Depending on where you live, if your child is four or five years old, you will be sending him or her to kindergarten soon....

22 Giggle Inducing Rules For Teachers Of The Past

Rules for teachers of the past were a touch more strict than the rules those our teachers of today must follow. Here are two...

Homemade Flower Garden / Herb Garden Gift

Nothing says "I Love You" like a homemade gift. Having said that, as a mom of five I have an entire black plastic trunk...

Cardboard Engineering 25 Extraordinary Projects

About three months after having a baby you hit the wall, and people spend a lot of time reassuring you it will get easier and...

Materials: Small terracotta planters Short white cake pop sticks Foam conversation heart shapes Hot glue gun Colored tissue paper Ivory colored chalk paint Paintbrush Instructions: Paint a coat of Ivory chalk paint over...