Competitions
Oooh you know how I love to try and get you all to GET CRAFTY!!! Well, here is a PERFECT excuse. The Tots100 have a Christmas Crafty challenge on and you can win a fabulous Experience Day as a reward! It is almost like a 2 for 1 – make your Christmas Craft (and tick [...]
Oooh my… now here is a WONDERFUL competition being run by Calpol – a Second Chance Saturday. Did your children miss something “really important” to them due to being poorly? Maybe they missed their best friend’s birthday party? Or maybe they missed the end of term school party? Maybe they missed out on a trip [...]
When I was contacted to see whether I wanted to write about this new Create & Make competition launched by Childline and Bafta, I knew I simply “had to”. Even before having children, I felt that Childline was doing invaluable work, helping children with problems on all sorts of levels. Sometimes just having someone to [...]
Well.. did you see our “Batman Costume” How To a couple of weeks ago? I hope so. It was a relatively easy and yet fun costume to make out of some old suit trousers (go check it out)!! Since then, Red Ted has gone SUPERHERO MAD! All he wants to do all day is play [...]
The team from AXA PPP healthcare are back! This time we are looking at Summer Kids Health. A topic close to all our (parenting) hearts I am sure. More info on the live chat party below.. but just so you know – leave a question on Summer Kids Health below and your questions will a) [...]
Well.. the majority of this are happy to finally be basking in a little bit of summer holiday sunshine. However, “back to school” is only a skip and a hop away and soon you will want to get “back to school crafty” (of course you do, I just KNOW it ), as well as get [...]
Oh my goodness!!! This is the coolest thing EVER. Want a FREE 2 week FAMILY (or group of friends) holiday to a tropical island? Want 10,000 Euros in addition? Well… look no further. SatNav provider, TomTom, still need to map out 5 tropical islands. TomTom still needs mapping information for Fiji, St Lucia, Seychelles, Mauritius and [...]
**THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED AND THE WINNER WILL BE CONTACTED SHORTLY** Argos would like to give you the chance to win a £100 gift card. The gift card is redeemable at any UK Argos store. Share the love and use your Argos gift card to treat the kids. Argos have an enormous range [...]
Ooooh… now I know some of you do love to cook. I am not so sure how many of you like cooking with your children, but if you have ever been inspired by Nick over at My Daddy Cooks, then you really should give it a go! I do a lot of baking with my [...]
**This Competition is now Closed** Want to see the entries? Check out the Drawing Comp Entries tab Give the kids something fun to do this Half Term with the smash hit musical WICKED! To coincide with its annual charity event WICKED Day, we have teamed up with the award-winning production to give one lucky Red Ted [...]
THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED AND THE WINNER HAS BEEN CONTACTED As you know, we are a huge fan of Orchard Toys and we regularly review their fabulous games and puzzles. I am yet to find a game that we don’t enjoy one level or another. We were very pleased to be sent Pop To [...]
Hooray hooray hooray! What is better than one twitter party? Two twitter parties of course.. and yes, it is time for not one but TWO twitter parties… all thanks to the wonderful people at innocent kids drinks! What is a Twitter Party? A twitter party is when we all come together at a given date [...]
THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED Aaah anothe lovely giveaway for you. How I do love giveaways and bring you lovely lovely things. This week, we have the lovely: Meeny Miney Mo create personalised Tees, PJs, Rompers, Bibs – you name it, they do it! Everything for Baby to 5yrs! This makes for fabulous New Baby, [...]
**THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED! WINNER HAS BEEN CONTACTED** Hello hello hello! As you know, I do like a good giveaway! And this is indeed another “good one”… Up To The Moon is a wonderful family run business focussing on Educational Toys, Crafts and Gift ideas! Each item is hand picked by the owner and [...]
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 [...]
Kids Crafts: Making Mini Books & Garden Journals
Welcome to this week’s kids’s craft – Making Mini Books, which we turned into our Kids’ Garden Journal! First we dif some gardening and then we made some mini books out ONE sheet of paper (very cool and very exciting). This mini book will become the children’s “Garden Journal” (or simply use it as a [...]
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