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Little Man is now three years old and just started at nursery. Like most three year olds he absolutely loves Peppa Pig. He was in for a real treat when he came home from nursery and discovered a box just for him. It had two of the new Learn with Peppa toys inside. The Peppa Pig Laugh and Learn laptop and the Peppa Pig Smart tablet. His little hands were so excited to open the boxes to begin playing with them. Luckily both items were really easy to remove from the packages and I was also impressed that the packaging could also be recycled.

Peppa Pig Laugh and Learn Laptop

Little Man often sees me working on my laptop. Working from home for his entire life, he knows no different than watching me work on a laptop. He therefore was rather delighted to receive his very own laptop and a Peppa Pig one too. His laptop has a rather smart handle, meaning he can carry it with ease wherever he goes. The laptop screen then lifts up, just like a real laptop and fits perfectly on his three year old legs so he can work just like Mummy.

His work however is lots of Peppa fun. Peppa has four fun games to play which help introduce letters, numbers, colours, objects and musical instruments. The games are interactive and the laptop lights up and plays sounds as he plays the games. There is also the option to play one of 6 tunes, play piano tunes and there are even some funny sounds too.

The Peppa Pig laugh and learn laptop is bright coloured and very eye catching to Little Man at three years old. He loves that the screen looks like Peppa things. The numbers are how Peppa would show them and the whole design is true to the show. The main buttons are big and chunky and I love the use of colour and different shapes. Little Man rather likes the slider, which is used for selecting the different game, and will slide it quickly up and down.

Batteries were included and there is a main on and off switch on the base of the laptop.

Peppa Pig Smart tablet

The Peppa Pig smart tablet is incredibly light weight meaning Little Man carries it everywhere he can. I do mean everywhere. One of the things he loves is how it is touch screen. In the same way a tablet would work you make selections by touching the front of the smart tablet.

Upon switching on Peppa asks you which game you want to play. You make a selection using the buttons on the side and Peppa will then ask you a question. For example if you select colours, Peppa will ask something like ‘Find the Purple Puddle’ Pressing the purple puddle plays a well done style noise but pressing the wrong colour plays an error noise. Little Man loves the colour game, I think because he is pretty clued up on his colours, whereas he tends not to play the letter game as he finds it harder to get the answer right as he is not as confident with letter recognition.

The Peppa Pig Smart tablet will grow with him as he does start to recognise letters and numbers and the interactive games with Peppa means he keeps coming back to aid his learning and understanding. The size is just perfect for him and his little toddler hands, at three years old he can carry it with ease. There is a clear volume control and an off and on button making it another good toy to use to entertain him for longer car journeys. The tablet takes AAA batteries which are not included.

You can also Learn with Peppa as I am giving away either a Peppa Smart Tablet or Peppa Pig Laugh and Learn Laptop to one lucky winner drawn at random. Full terms are on the widget below. Prize may vary on the ones stated depending on availability.

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This is a featured post in collaboration with Walkers crisps.

Now here’s the story from A-Z….

If you didn’t sing that sentence to a certain Spice girls song then…. Well I am not sure how to end that

I grew up in the 90s. The 90s were my school years, leaving primary school and entering high school, leaving high school for college and learning to drive a car. The 90s saw me leave childhood and become a teenager, almost into adulthood. They were a big part of my life.

My musical taste is, well let’s say not mainstream, but that doesn’t mean I don’t remember the songs of the 90s. I remember my sister having a Spice girls poster on her bedroom wall and her listening to their songs. Whilst I wasn’t listening to them direct, they had an indirect impact on me. For some reason I seem to know the words to the vast majority of their songs. In fact watching my friends and sisters perform the dance moves to Spice Girls stop means that they are permanently etched into my brain even to this day.

My Facebook timeline and my Instagram newsfeed is currently flooded with 90s bands. Take That reunion tour, Westlife reunion tour and the Spice Girls. It’s almost like the 90s again, except I have young children in tow and want to be in bed by 9.30pm. I see the excitement on my friends faces as they head out to watch the bands they loved growing up, it’s almost like been back there again only this time with a lot more grey hairs thrown in.

It would appear it is not just my social media timeline that is reliving the 90s. Walkers, the UK’s favourite crisp brand, has teamed up with iconic girl group, Spice Girls, for a nostalgic throwback to the 90s in its new TV advert and have begun the search for the Spice Girls Best Ever Fan, during the girls UK tour. Fans were asked to post a Spice Girls related snapshot from back in the day, or to create something new and share on their social channel of choice, tagging @Walkers_Crisps and hashtagging #BestEverFan.

The entries have been amazing and I would recommend you have a look, there really are some serious fans out there. How they will choose I winner I do not know. As for the advert, well that runs from 2nd June until the 21st July 2019 and in case you missed it you can watch it again here.

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This is a featured post containing a competition Sponsored by British skincare brand, Sudocrem.

For as long as I can remember I have always had a love for the outdoors and growing plants. I can remember every year growing potatoes in a bucket with my Grandad. Tipping out the dirt to see what had grown. My Grandma taught me how to take cuttings and replant them to grow new plants. Their garage was covered in sweet peas and we would pick them and eat them in the garden.

In my own garden I have two apple trees, a pear tree and a cherry tree. I bought a fig tree from the nursery for 50p and for the first time this year it has started to grow. Outside the doors my hanging baskets grow tumbling tomato plants rather than flowers and I have an abundance of rhubarb and strawberries growing out of pots.

My parents also grow their own fruit and veg and my children enjoy growing their own fruit and veg not only at home but also with their Grandparents. Last year they planted and took care of pumpkins which they then successfully used over Halloween. During Autumn they pick blackberries and cook fruit crumble and one of their loves is eating apples straight from the tree.

I am incredibly excited to announce that I am a Get Out and Grow ambassador. In a recent survey Sponsored by British skincare brand, Sudocrem, the Get Out and Grow project was created. The research suggested gardening is being forgotten and that many children lack basic knowledge about the natural world and where their food comes from. Only 8% had ever picked an apple and 73% had never grown a sunflower. These statistics are rather shocking given how much fruit and veg my own children grow.

Starting in June and running throughout the month, Get Out and Grow will award school gardening starter kits to 20 schools nationwide. The kits will include children’s wheelbarrows, gardening gloves, mini-trowels, seeds and lessons on how to make the most of a school garden. And the good news is, anyone can enter! Nominating your local primary school or nursery is easy. Just fill in the widget below and then message me or leave a comment with the details of your chosen school to be in with the chance to win one of the available kits. Full terms and conditions are on the widget.

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You may have seen in an earlier post that next year I plan on renovating my youngest daughters bedroom. If you ask her her favourite colour she says rainbow and her favourite things are mermaids, dogs and unicorns, so with these things in mind I want to create her a magical bedroom.

I am currently researching different painting methods. This may sound strange but I am wanting to incorporate a feature rainbow wall for her. I am looking at several different methods including using bubble wrapping to print different colours onto her wall, using bubbles themselves to paint and creating sections within the wall for a more defined rainbow. I am not sure which method to use yet, I like the idea of the bubbles but I am struggling to find a way to make it work.

On this feature wall I also intend to either paint or find a large enough wall sticker of a unicorn, to add a touch of sparkle I would also like to find some glitter to add to the wall. I have started to put together a Pinterest board of my ideas of how I would like the walls to look.

https://pin.it/lpdz5di4vyjsnq

I would like to use pastel colours on the other 3 walls. Maybe using different colours to try and keep with her love for rainbows. I am not sure if I will add glitter though as I want the feature wall to really stand out. Instead I want to decorate with art work that also captures the other things she loves mermaids, and of course dogs.

Looking through the internet I have found some beautiful art work at a very reasonable price for her bedroom wall. Arthaus is an independent and self funded market place that currently showcases the work of over 400 artists. This means there is an enviable collection of art that continuously grows and changes as more artists add their work. The price is also set by the artists themselves so there are plenty of beautiful artwork at very affordable prices. I simply fell in love with this piece and ordered it for her bedroom.

To incorporate mermaid into her bedroom I have decided to look for a blackout blind with a mermaid scale pattern. The wall which the window is on I think I will paint a lighter colour in order to have the blind stand out as art of its own.

I am actually really excited to start this project and know it won't happen quickly as I am not the fastest at painting but I cannot wait for it to unfold and also to see her face once it is complete. I am also hoping to film the transformation so you can see everything come together over on YouTube.

Arthaus have very kindly offered a framed print to one lucky reader of this blog to enter follow the widget below which also contains the full terms and conditions. In addition the code THISDAY20 entitles you to 20% off any print or frame until midnight Monday 3rd December.

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