Adventure, Art & Craft, Grow and Learn, stay at home
Parents of BUSY toddlers! How do you keep your little ones occupied for more than 5 seconds, so you can actually breathe for a moment???? Eating, drinking, tantrums, mess and them getting into ALLLL the things doesn’t leave a lot of room for parents to get a...
Adventure, Grow and Learn, stay at home
Have you ever wanted to create an outdoor area at home for your kids??? One of our team members has created amazing outdoor play spaces in her work for years and she is sharing her advice and photos with us! Start with what you have. One of the easiest and quickest...
stay at home
Sigh! Housework. We all have to do it. But how can we make it quicker and easier so we can get onto the important stuff? Here are our favourite house cleaning hacks! Laundry Basket Hack If you are anything like me, you spend half your cleaning time carting around all...
Art & Craft, Grow and Learn, Online Learning, stay at home
With the seasons slowly changing and Autumn nearly here, we thought it would be fun to gather some beautiful and fun Autumn craft activities to do with the kids. Here are some that are easy to do at home or at your local park. Stone Painting; Collect stones at you...
Grow and Learn, Online Learning, stay at home
Housework! Never ending, relentless, joyless, frustrating and frequently icky (parents of boys…am I right??) Getting the kids to help and contribute can add to the mayhem, but it is important to teach them life skills, responsibility and the importance of...
Art & Craft, Online Learning, Shop Local, stay at home
Kidsplay Crafts are a Tweed Heads based business bringing you alllllll of the craft! They have a huge range of craft available online from Sand Art to Shrinkies, Perler Beads, Natural products (great for making mobiles and homewares) as well as painting supplies,...
Be Healthy, Recipes, stay at home
There are many nights that I am just so exhausted that I barely have the energy to throw together toast, let alone anything that vaguely resembles dinner. This is my go-to when guilt about my children’s consumption of nutrients starts to kick in and I need something...
Be Healthy, stay at home
Motherhood, despite all its joy, can be hard, exhausting and overwhelming. There is so much to do, so many expectations (many we create ourselves) and not enough time in the day. Many of us, especially at this time of year, are on the edge of burn-out and feel that we...
Adventure, Be Healthy, Grow and Learn, stay at home
Bush walking is something we have enjoyed for as long as we can remember. The connection to nature, the wildlife, the peace and quiet and the challenge! Of course, when we had kids we wanted to share this great experience with them! When they were babies, it was easy...
Eats & Treats, Recipes, stay at home
I’ve been making these sausage rolls for years and it’s basically just a throw allllllllllll my fridge contents into a high speed blender kinda recipe. So easy and they are devoured every time! The ingredients list changes every time I make these so the...
Adventure, Be Healthy, Grow and Learn, Online Learning, stay at home
Keeping our children safe is one of our primary tasks as parents. It can be terrifying watching our children branch out into the big world and the risks associated with that. So how do we balance keeping our children safe, while giving them the skills they need to...
Adventure, Art & Craft, Grow and Learn, Online Learning, stay at home
We love spending time in nature with our kids! Here are some great nature-based activities to do with your kids at home or at your local park. Nature Scavenger Hunt; Write a list of nature treasures that are common in your area and have your little one collect each...
Grow and Learn, Learn, Online Learning, stay at home
Want to trick your kids into thinking they’re having screen time when they are actually engaging in an awesome educational program!? Look no futher, ABC Reading Eggs for the WIN! Sign up for a 4 week FREE trial! Great timing for the school holidays click here to...
Recipes, stay at home
It’s officially Spring tomorrow! Spring in our household equals lots of smoothies for breakfast and the leftovers we use to make ice creams to enjoy for afternoon tea (or the occasional breakfast ‘treat’!). Here are a few of our favourite smoothie...
Be Healthy, Grow and Learn, stay at home, Uncategorized
Fussy eating can be one of the greatest challenges of parenting. Trying to get children to eat nutritious foods, only to have them constantly refused can cause stress and tension every meal time – especially when you have put so much effort into preparing it!...
