I have my lovely friend Emma joining us today with her lovely little boy Louie. Emma is a key worker so is still working through lock down for 3 days a week. During her time at home she is always doing such wonderful activities with Louie.

She invited me over and I just had to film this wonderful activity that had been keeping Louie busy this week. His very own Cardboard Village Small World. Emma joined us over Christmas and shared a lovely craft with us so I am delighted to have her back today.

I am sharing on our stories on Instagram lots of simply play ideas so make sure you're following us over there too.

It's been the season for cardboard box galore as of late. I'd just got back from the school run. Hot and bothered. The twins were busy playing with their cars on the windowsill and in these moments where I should probably take a breather - I get a random idea pop into my head, to make something.

I popped to the recycling. Brought out a box and grabbed the sharpie pen. 

With Easter just around the corner now my news feeds on social media have been full of wonderful Easter/Spring Sensory Bins, Egg activities and lots of wonderful new books to accompany these set ups too! Leading up to Easter you have no doubt prepared lots of lovely crafts and activities for the children but what about after Easter? Suddenly you have hundreds of eggs. Eggs that the children have loved playing with over the last couple of weeks, it seems silly to pop them away until next year. So today I want to share with you a lovely way of using eggs on the build up to Easter and afterwards too. 

If you follow us over on Instagram you will have seen the beautiful new book storage we have for Neves books. Its been a great way to organise key stories that are relevant to the time of years and interests Neve has. It holds an impressive 30 odd stories!
Over the last few months we have had Christmas stories and stories set in Winter popped inside our book display. Now Christmas has passed us by and Neve becoming interested in Space - I have replaced the Christmas books with Space themed stories. Its been great! A couple of stories Neve has been enjoying have been penguin related which led me to set up a Penguin Small World.
On the subject of Penguins - did you see our super cute Foot Print Penguin Cards?