Competitions Archives - NurtureStore

Win The Artful Parent kids’ art book

By Cathy James on March 28th, 2013%

You need to get a copy of this book! Jean Van’t Hul, who many of you will know from her wonderful blog The Artful Parent, has a brand new book full of ‘simple ways to fill your family’s life with art and creativity’. The book, The Artful Parent, is packed full of inspiring ideas to try. Here’s a peek inside at one of the activities, together with a super-easy-to-enter competition where one of you can win a copy.

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Win a fabulous kid’s Globe gift package – open worldwide

By Cathy James on October 13th, 2011%

I’m so pleased to be hosting this giveaway where one of you can win a fabulous gift package of goodies from Globee – and delighted that they’re offering the competition worldwide, so all of you can enter.

Globee make beautifully illustrated globes featuring different cities around the world. Each globe highlights one city and features the well-known landmarks and places for your child to explore, and comes with a fact-packed booklet turning the globe into a great learning resource to use with your kids.

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Sunflower Challenge 2011

By Cathy James on June 30th, 2011%

Today’s the Day!

If you’ve been growing sunflowers with us as part of the Compton Hospice Sunflower Challenge you need to measure your sunflowers today. There are fabulous prizes on offer for the tallest bloom, so measure up and contact Compton with your vital statistics.

Our tallest is currently 1m 65cm. They got up to 2m 47cm last year, so there’s plenty more growing to be done. How tall are yours?

Sunflower Festival

If you’ve been enjoying growing sunflowers (whether you’re joining in the official challenge or not) and have a sunflower-themed play idea to share with us – we would love to see them. Please add a link to the Linky at the end of this post. We’ve shared some ideas for art, science and math in our Sunflower Activities ebook, and here’s one more idea for sunflower fun.

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Join the NurtureStore and Have a Lovely Time Sunflower Challenge

By Cathy James on February 28th, 2011%

Last year we had so much fun running our Sunflower Club with you all that this year we thought we’d like to make it even bigger and better. We’ve joined forces with Have a Lovely Time to launch a Sunflower Challenge and I’m hoping you’re all going to join in and help us raise funds for a hospice which helps people with life-limiting illnesses and their families.

We’re inviting you all to grow sunflowers with your children, either as a family or a class or group and take part in a competition with fabulous prizes for the tallest sunflowers. We also have a free e-book full of fun learning activities for you all, so you can add in some science, maths, art and creativity as you grow. Are you up for the challenge?

How to enter:

1. Donate a minimum* of £2** to our JustGiving page. * Any more is most welcome, if you aren’t feeling the pinch already at a couple of quid.

2. Register online at Compton’s website, and email Katie Love at Compton Hospice (katielove[at]compton-hospice.org.uk) quoting your JustGiving reference number, telling her your name and address so that she can send you a packet of seeds. (Everyone needs the same seeds to see who does the best with them…)

3. With the help of Katie’s information pack and NurtureStore’s Sunflower Activity e-book, grow your sunflower, measure it and tell us all about your success to be in with a chance of winning a prize.

4. Take a picture of you and yours with your blooming sunflowers so we can share your progess with readers of Have a Lovely Time and Nurturestore.

5. Spread the word about the Sunflower Challenge by adding our badge to your blog and inviting your friends and readers to come and join in too.

Our Sunflower Activities e-book is full of ideas you can use with your children to get the most from your sunflowers growing. It includes ideas for adding in science, maths, art and creativity as you grow. You can download the e-book for free simply by clicking on this link:

Sunflower Activity e-book

To find out more about Compton Hospice and the fabulous prizes on offer pop over to Have a Lovely Time to read more.

We hope you’ll join us in this project and have a wonderful spring and summer growing sunflowers with your children and joining us as we keep you updated on our progress.

Thank you so much for joining in the fun and for supporting Compton House.