Playing by the book

Reviews of kids' books and the crazy, fun stuff they inspire us to do

Buckets of imagination

Billy’s Bucket by Kes Gray, illustrated by Garry Parsons is both a wonderful celebration of the power of imagination and a warning to parents who do not take their children’s creativity seriously!
All Billy wants for his birthday is a bucket. Not a bike or a computer game. Just a bucket. His parents try unsuccessfully to [...]

Inventions with junk modelling – Nonfiction Monday

One of M’s favourite rainy day or “quiet time” activities is making inventions out of junk. I supply her with a box full of whatever recycling / rubbish I’ve saved up, a roll of sellotape or masking tape (the latter being easier for her to tear rather than cut), and a small supply of “bling” [...]

Magical birthdays

Just before Christmas it was M’s 5th birthday. We had a really happy weekend, first her birthday at home with just the 4 of us playing, playing, reading and playing, and then the following day enjoying ourselves enormously at her dinosaur party (which I’m so happy to report couldn’t have been a bigger success [...]

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