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.
Here are the goodies you could win: Read more »
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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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 . . . → Read More: Join the NurtureStore and Have a Lovely Time Sunflower Challenge
on February 4th, 2011%
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the makers of the stage version of the best selling story Guess How Much I Love You have sent me two copies of their DVD to giveaway.
I’m sure most of you will know this book as it’s sold over 20 million copies . . . → Read More: Guess how much i love you giveaway
on October 6th, 2010%
NurtureStore is 1 year old today!
365 days since our very first post we’ve shared 226 ideas and had 1231 comments. We’ve been kittens, grown sunflowers, made peg dolls and sung you songs. The most enjoyable part of NurtureStore for me is being part of the play community, sharing ideas with . . . → Read More: Orchard Toys: What a Performance!
on September 6th, 2010%
Have you heard of Booktrust, the UK charity which aims to encourage a lifelong love of reading? Those of you with school age children may have come across their Booktime campaign which runs in partnership with Pearson and the Department for Education. Booktime gives every English reception class child free books to promote a love of . . . → Read More: Booktrust Booktime website and prize draw

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