Voltron Girl

This girl is so much cooler than I could ever hope to be, the attitude, the regard, the costume for jees sake. Speaking of the outfit/costume – it was made for her by her dad – instructions and images on how he built it here.

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Getting creative with your kids

Blogger Joel of  ‘Made by Joel‘ has a gorgeous website where he shares all the fantastic homemade projects he creates with his kids including this Design Tree …a trumpet for his son …and finger puppets I can’t wait for the time when I’ll be able to lose track of time making stuff with my kids

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Papercraft

Love this free downloadable template to make your very own  fantastical winged elephant I also came across these gorgeous Printable paper dolls on Spanish website Kireei.com via How about Orange For more vintage cut out paper dolls you can go to this site where they have ten years of Betsy McCall paper dolls and her [...]

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Poisson rouge

Just came across this great interactive website for kids called Poisson Rouge. Amongst the many different interactive activities for kids here is a pick of my favourite Learn the alphabet in different languages  (personally the french alphabet option is a great one for our family) Compose music and play it back Identify stars in the [...]

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Bring the World into their bedroom

I came across this very cool boys bedroom via Apartment therapy a while back and loved the idea of using a huge map on one wall of a kid’s bedroom. Kartell designed the Ero/S/ Swivel Chair and Bookworm Shelf Here are two more examples of using World maps and globes in kids bedrooms – the [...]

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Silke’s retro bedroom

Here is a beautiful retro-inspired childrens bedroom from ‘What we do’ The lamp has been created using animal decals/stickers on a white lampshade and these stickers were created by the designers and you can buy them on their website Zooper Pets. They had created a special version of the Zooper Pets cut out in wallpaper and exotic [...]

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Guilty as charged

I know I mentioned before how I aspire to parent simply and without a million plastic toys surrounding me and my child but….right now it will have to stay an aspiration as I desperately depend and rely on the many plastic-decorated accoutrements (some gifted, some bought out of necessity) in order to actually manage to change [...]

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“Children need to be bored – so I’m smashing the Wii”

This is the title of an article in The Telegraph by Nigel Farndale where he discusses the negative effects of over-stimulation on children’s imagination – it’s quite timely given the Christmas season where children are bombarded with toys from Santa and generous grandparents and family friends but many of these toys are often discarded after only a few hours of play. [...]

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