Books
Around the World with Mouk (Sticker Book) By Marc Boutavant We have had our eye on Mouk for quite some time now and for some reason or another never got round to buying it. I heard “great things”, but didn’t know much about it. We finally bought with some Christmas vouchers and the book arrive 2-3 [...]
A conveniently collated ebook bringing you cheap “Paper Roll” crafts for around the year! This is a great way to get you crafting once a month or to give you ideas for “key calendar” dates, such as Chinese New Year or Halloween. All crafts use the humble paper roll as a basis and with the use of [...]
A few months ago, the wonderful Zoe at Playing by the Book organised a book swap! Wow! Yes, after the success of her Postcard Swap, she upped the ante and organised a Picture Book Swap! The main reason for joining the Book Swap, was of course to get a new lovely book, that I may [...]
Andy Warhol’s Colors By Susanna Rubin Mmmh, I think we have gone all arty at the Red Ted HQ, but that is ok, as that is what we are here for. We have seen “Katie and the Mona Lisa” and last week we look at “Anna’s Art Adventure“, were Red Ted really enjoyed [...]
Anna’s Art Adventure, by Bjorn Sortland. After the success of Katie & The Mona Lisa and the fact that I want to start getting books that Red Ted (3) can grow into, I decided to get hold of Anna’s Art Adventure. When we first opened it, I though 0h-oh – a reasonable amount of [...]
Book Review Sector 7, by David Wiesner. I first came across David Wiesner in the great book review blog hops that I take part in each weeks. My name is Maggy and I am a book junky. Now I have found David Wiesner, I fear for my purse. We now have three of his books: [...]
8yrs Josphen has reviewed books for us before – check out her other favourite reads here. She realy is a little book worm. And today she has some more corkers for you to browse through. Today’s game review is “Two by Two” and wonderful take on the traditional “Pairs” or Memory game. Book Review – [...]
The lovely Ella has reviewed “Mr Smith Invents a Robot” book – a wonderfully smelly read! And we also bring you fab little “opposites” game. Pretty please – leave some comments, regarding books and board games – so that I know whether you are finding these reviews useful or not and I can do some [...]
Today we have a Funny Prize book reviewed by Princess Consuela Banana Hammock aged 10. I have to say, the review leaves me wanting to go out and buy this for me to read… mmmh. May just have to start Red Ted’s “older library” now. I also have a FABULOUS toddler to 6yrs board game: [...]
Today, 8yrs old josphen1902 reviews two books for you – books that your children may enjoy reading by themselves and get those reading skills developing!! I have a modern “classic” German children’s book and also, I bring you another fabulous Toddler Game – Red Dog, Blue Dog. Book Reviews The Mum Minder, by Jacqueline Wilson A [...]
Book reviews for you is back, for the little ones we have Harry, the Dirty Dog and for the slightly older one (7yrs+) some Roald Dahl, reviewed for you by the 8 year old Miss Frugal! Fabulous. All book reviews done you to date are found here. Also, I want to share some of our [...]
Welcome back to Review Monday. Today I bring you books for under 5s, as well a book for over 5s. As my children are still little, the over 5s will be brought to you by Guest Posters – lovely children in my network of friends and readers aged 7-11yrs old. These are their favourite books and their [...]
Kid’s Book and Kid’s iPhone App reviews continue. For my “reasons” behind “Why Apps?!” look here. Type “Kids” or “children” or “educational” into the Apple iStore and you get bombarded with Apps. Which to get?! Look no further… As well as our usual Monday Morning Book Club review! All previously reviewed books can be found on my [...]
Kid’s Book and Kid’s iPhone App reviews continue. For my “reasons” behind “Why Apps?!” look here. Type “Kids” or “children” or “educational” into the Apple iStore and you get bombarded with Apps. Which to get?! Look no further… As well as our usual Monday Morning Book Club review! All previously reviewed books can be found on my [...]
So.. I had dinner to cook for the kids and I had a handful of craft sticks. So I gave these to the kids, a bunch of pens and some googly eyes, whilst I sorted their dinner. And we got.. these adorable Craft Sticks Bookmarks. They would be a FABULOUS little gift for Father’s Day [...]
Handprint Animals: A Complete Alphabet A-Z
Well, it has been a fun 26 weeks! I cannot believe that we embarked on a Handprint Alphabet over 26 weeks ago (that is 6 months ago?! Wow). And what an alphabet journey it has been! We started off with an innocent A for Alien.. then a B for Bee.. and suddenly we were on [...]
Today we are looking at being “Creative with Flowers” – I decided to do our very first “How To Press Flowers” session with the children. Flower pressing is another on of those “childhood” classic crafts that you can have a go at – it is surprising how well some flowers do press (whilst, ahem, other don’t). So [...]
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