This day I love.......: green

With my eldest at school, it was a day of indoor play for my youngest today.

I wanted to do something fun with her but also something to help her learning and understanding. We started by some messy play to help with colours. My youngest knows all her colours but occasionally gets green and blue mixed up. I used some shower gel and created lots of bubble with it, I then mixed in corn flour until we got a nice slimy mixture.

She had lots of fun mixing the slime

She loved the texture and that she could pull and stretch it.

She had lots of fun playing with the slime, but soon wanted to wash her hands. This got me thinking of our next game. I took the glue gun numbers I had made and placed them in the kitchen sink.

I filled the kitchen sink with water and added some food colouring. We talked about the colour of the water and then went fishing.

We started fishing out the numbers and my youngest is starting to get very good at recognising the numbers. Which I think is impressive for 2.

It was a lovely way to spend the day, playing and learning all at the same time

This day I love a day of messy play

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Dear Cloud B

We met back at the end of March and I wanted to say Thank you. You gave me a Twilight Buddies Bunny to review for my youngest and I never realised how much I needed it until tonight. You see my youngest recently gave up her dummy and whilst the days are no longer a problem, the nights were getting worse.

Most nights she would settle OK, but more frequently she would wake in the night. She would wake screaming and be very unsettled. The screaming would last for up to 2 hours and nothing would settle her. She was looking for that comfort she used to get from her dummy.

Her comfort she has now found in her Twilight Buddy. Her constant buddy that is always by the side of her bed. One she can find in the night and turn her room from darkness into magical. Her comfort in the dark. The stars on her ceiling acting as a welcome distraction from her thinking about sleep. Watching them as she drifts into a peaceful sleep. Her rabbit. Soft and cuddly, giving her that comfort she longs for in the dark.

Thank you Cloud B, you have given my daughter that comfort she so desperately needed. You have transformed her room into a magical and peaceful place for her to sleep. For that I am truly grateful.

We were given a cloud B Bunny to review. All words and opinions are my own.

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There are some products that when they really make you go wow. The Weekend box was one of these, such a clever idea. Let me introduce the Weekend box to you.

The Weekend box contains something in the following categories

Something to Cook

Something to Make

Something to Explore and

Something Green

Each activity explores sensory skills and teach them something in a fun way. My eldest at 3 years old loved it. As a parent I loved that pretty much everything I needed was included. I know how hard it can be to entertain a 3 year old with something fun and educational, particularly when you cannot go outside and play. The Weekend box provided a great solution. We had an idea of something to make for lunch, green pancakes and after an activity to make. There was a fun game to play and a little experiment on sound. Even my 23 month old got involved and had fun.

There is a new box every fortnight and a box costs £7.50, which I think is very well priced. If you would like to try a weekend box for free including delivery then please use this promotional code LEYLA130. I personally think the Weekend box is an excellent idea, the girls loved it, I loved it and we could focus on what mattered over the weekend, having fun!

We were sent a free weekend box to review, all words are my own

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The girls and I love exploring outdoors to see what we can find. I have thought about giving her a list of things to find but at the moment she is still a little too young, instead we play the rainbow game. My daughter knows the colours of the rainbow, she can both sing and sign the song, and loves the fun of exploring whilst out.

The game is simple whilst out try and find something in nature to match each of the colours of the rainbow. It is great because it gets children looking and exploring nature and even young children can play, as there is no need to read or match pictures.

Red

We found some red berries high up in the tree which my eldest pointed out and some bright red leaves on our Acer tree

Yellow

We also found a bee and some buttercups. We managed to find quite a lot of yellow today.

Pink

We searched high and low for something pink but could not find anything. We even dug holes to find worms but to no luck. We will look this weekend for something pink.

Green

My eldest found a green fly. She loves picking up bugs and creepy crawlies at the moment. Taking a photo of a green fly with your phone whilst your eldest wants to play with the green fly is rather tricky.

Purple

My eldest pointed this out, she was fascinated by the shape. I had to explain not to touch.

Orange and Blue

The orange sand and the blue of the lake was just to beautiful an opportunity to pass up. Our dog loved swimming in the lake whilst my eldest played in the sand.

The rainbow game is a great way to introduce colours and to get children looking and exploring whilst out and about. When she is older I could be very specific like find plants and flowers or animals but at the moment its things whilst we are out. We also don't do the colours in order at the moment as this would make the game harder too. It is a lot of fun and my eldest enjoys the search and fun of finding the colours.

This day I love finding the rainbow

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Having moved house almost a year ago I decided it was about time we put our own stamp on the place and begin decorating. The room I wanted to start with was the play room. This is the room we spend most of our time in, if we are not outdoors. The girls play here and we watch TV together, read stories, it is our family room.

I heard about the nursery paint company and was eager to try out their paint, for the following reasons:

It is made from natural soya beans, there are no chemicals used in their paint. This means no VOC. No harmful chemicals to breathe in ever.
It is antibacterial, 99.9% of pathogens are unable to live on the walls after it has been painted, creating a safe environment
the colour choice was great
The paint looked luxurious
It is British made

I had a discount to purchase some paint and after a lot of changing my mind I finally settled on 'Walk in the Park'

The Paint arrived in an easy to open tin. It had no smell to it, and looked really creamy, it poured lovely.

The room before had white walls, which were covered in faded areas and marks where the previous owners had had pictures.

After the first coat, the colour was really starting to look better, but was still a little patchy

But after the second coat the room looked perfect.

The paint really is top end luxury, you can tell this from the minute you open the tin and how the paint goes on the walls. It covered really well and only needed two coats. I still have over half a tin left! I absolutely adore the colour its a really rich colour, I think rich is the best way to describe it but it gives the room its own character. With two young children I have even tested the durability of the paint as I have had to wash crayon off the walls, this had not damaged the paint in anyway. I would say this paint will last and is money well spent. Now to choose the colour for my eldest bedroom, tough decision!

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My youngest was a little tired after all the clapping she did during her lunch

So whilst she had a sleep my eldest and I did some painting, sticking and baking.

We began by making some Easter cards. My eldest loves to use her hands to paint so we used her hand print to make rabbits.

They are still drying at the moment but tomorrow we will stick on eyes and draw a mouth, nose and whiskers. She wanted to make something for her Daddy so I gave her a cut out shape of an egg, as well as some plain paper, lots of glue, glitter and paint and then I let her be creative

She had loads of fun paining and sticking. It was great because I could get a few jobs done whilst she was having fun.

After tidying up my eldest declared she wanted to bake. As its almost St Patrick day, we made some themed cookies.

For the cookies we used:

350g flour

1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda

1tsp salt

225g butter

175g caster sugar

175g soft brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 eggs

1 packet chocolate chips

green food colouring - to desired colour

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 190 C

2. Mix flour, soda and salt together in a bowl

3. Combine butter, vanilla extract and both sugars in a bowl until creamy. Then beat in the eggs. Finally mix in the flour mixture and add the chocolate chips and food colouring.