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Abominable DVD Review

This coming half term, why not get your family this awesome Abominable movie to watch, which is available to buy now on Digital Download, 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment!

We have received the DVD format which is perfect for this coming half term to watch on a rainy day or a road trip! This DVD contains 93 minutes of action-packed heartwarming adventure including two original short movies, deleted scenes, animating Abominable, Your Yeti care guide and much more.

PuroQuiet Noise Cancelling Headphones Review

I am sure every parent wants to buy things that are safe for their children to use. The same goes for us. So I was delighted to learn that PuroQuiet headphones help protect children from hearing loss. They were developed by a father who realised his 10-year-old daughter had sustained Noise-Induced Hearing Loss from listening to music too loud, for too long. He found that there was no one addressing this issue adequately, so his family set about designing and developing the highest-quality, studio-grade, volume limiting to 85 decibels children’s headphone whilst still at an affordable price. Best of all, it can be used wirelessly via Bluetooth.

How to use Treads Measuring Gauge

Thinking of order Back to School shoes online but unsure if you are getting the right size of shoes for your children? Then look no further! I am so thrilled that a simple tool like this Treads measuring gauge can put my mind at rest and take the guesswork out of ordering online. It takes a huge amount of stress out of the Back to School process. Just think, there is no more queuing with tickets, out of stock sizes and no need to return as you have the right size shoes for your child!

Foame Adventure Review

Learning through playing is very important for children as play allows them to use their creativity while developing their imagination, fine motor skills and intellectual skills. I am so thrilled to introduce you to Foamë play system with ‘construct, connect and adapt’ elements for boundless creative play that is suitable from three years old and above!

Adapting Your Home To Meet the Demands of a Growing Family

You might think that you’re in the perfect home, but it’s only perfect for your current circumstances. If you’re thinking about having a child, or have one on the way, then it won’t just be the number of hours of sleep you get that’ll change once they arrive – so will the suitability of your home. But you don’t necessarily have to move house just because a little one is on the way. By making a few changes, you can give your current abode more space, so that there’s no reason for people to be falling over each other!

5 Things to Do When Filing for Divorce

Divorce is already a hard enough situation to be in but resolving it should not be too complicated. You may need someone to help you in the process and make it as quick and easy as possible. The lawyer that you should get must be experienced and well-versed in family law-related legal services. You may want to hire a Dayton Ohio divorce attorney who can easily take care of your legal issues during your divorce process. Here are five things to guide you when you file for divorce.

Screechers Wild Review

Screechers Wild is a brand new children’s animated series and prior to the debut of the series, Alpha Toys launched the toyline and web-series in early 2018 which you can catch on their YouTube channel.

This Screechers Wild range that we have received, is a collection of awesome race cars/machines that transform themselves into unique creatures in seconds by driving it at one of its discs to activate the 360-degree flip morphing action. It is suitable for aged six and above!

How Bottle Warmers Can Help Make Happier Babies and Parents

As we are all perfectly aware of, babies have absolutely no respect for your time or gratitude for inconveniencing your life in general. They sleep up to 16 hours a day, they expect you to change and clean them, and then, they have the temerity to wake up in the middle of the night demanding warm, delicious milk with barely any notice to bleary-eyed parents. Of course, it has to be said, babies are just about the greatest thing in the world, and give parents validation of their entire existence. So you could say it’s a fair trade-off.

Questions to Ask your Children Activity

If you are looking for something to do with your children this weekend, then you should click this printable ‘20 questions to ask your children’ worksheet to get to know them more! This was put together by Shepherds Friendly Society after seeing many parents asking their children 20 questions about and then posting the answers to social media. The replies are often very fun and crazy!

National Bedwetting Day

This coming Tuesday 24^th May 2016 celebrates National Bedwetting Day. This is to raise awareness for everyone that bedwetting is nobody’s fault, it can and it should be treated. LloydsPharmacy have put up a bedwetting post on their website to explain to parents that they can talk about the subject to support their children and each other.

Fish Mobile

This is a very easy craft that we made during the Easter holiday break. Both of my children love fishes and so we decided to make this fish mobile to hang it in our conservatory. We spent at least 20 minutes to colour all the fishes and took me around 10 minutes to thread them into this simple yet beautiful fish mobile.

The Little Nut Tree

The Little Nut Tree is a book written and illustrated by Sally Gardner. This Blue Early Readers book is perfect for sharing and reading together. It was released on 2 January 2014 and published by Orion Publishing.

Alph and Betty’s Topsy Turvy World App

Alph and Betty’s Topsy TurvyWorld is the first in a series of motion adventure books for iPad from Stephen Cavalier, the author of The World History of Animation. Alph and Betty was created by Electric Circus, an award winning team of writers, animators, artists, actors and programmers with experience ranging from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Beano, award winning online and console games and Doctor Who.

Ideas for Christmas Stocking Fillers!

Eight days until Christmas! Have you bought your presents? If you need some last minutes inspiration ideas for Christmas stockings, take a look at these wide range of super collectible Gacha range of pocket money toys from TOMY. The range of miniature toys and accessories are perfect for school bags, keys, the playground etc.

TOMY’s expanded Gacha licensed collection includes Hello Kitty, Nintendo, Disney, Sega and more, and 2013 welcomes new characters to the offering from Monsters University, Planes from Disney and sensational app characters from Where’s my Water. Marvel will also have a strong presence with Iron Man 3, Thor 2, and danglers from Littlest Pet Shop.

Christmas Activities with Vertbaudet

This Christmas holiday period, Vertbaudet has created a new Christmas activities page to keep children busy in the run up to Christmas. There are 10 different activities – if you run out of ideas, why not have a look at their activities page and get inspired. Create and pin it on Pinterest. Then maybe they could ‘show and tell’ it to their class.

Each of the activities comes as a PDF file that are straightforward to print out. There is an Advent Calendar, Paper Garland, Paper Pompoms, Letters to Santa, Colouring Pictures, Christmas Gift Tags, Woollen Pompoms, Bake Some Biscuits, Christmas Carol and Paper Stars.

After the children came back from school this afternoon, we printed out four different activities to do together.

1. Letters to Santa

There are 3 templates to download: A traditional Christmas tree, a very cool snowman or a pile of presents that you can colour in yourself.

Mr K chose the pile of presents and Ms C went for a very cool snowman. Mr K was very excited to write down his list – this is the first year he can properly write words. Reading his requests made me laugh out loud! He wanted seeds and a plant pot to grow his plant! An egg timer to time himself running, cocoa so he could make chocolate and a mug!

While Ms C has only one request which is Ariel. So she drew a mermaid that looked like a bee with seven water bubbles around her to breathe.