Moving and shaking: winter ideas for fit kids

indoor active play
Don’t let grey days and freezing temperatures stop your kids moving and shaking. Use these ideas from our Play Academy link ups for action games to have fun and keep your kids fit and active all winter long.

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Playdough and art

playdough and art
We’ve been mixing two of our favourite things this week: playdough and art. My girls love to make and create, especially if they can make something to play with too. Here’s their winter woodland with a forest of Christmas trees. Read more »

How to make a wormery

how to make a wormery
We’re joined today by Jo Middleton, who blogs at Slummy single mummy, with a fabulous tutorial on how to make a wormery. Perfect for a school gardening club project and for getting kids closer to nature. Here’s Jo’s guide:

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Snowman ice cream

ice cream snowman
What’s the best thing to eat when you want a fun treat on a winter’s day? An ice cream snowman of course!

Inspired by a photo on Pinterest that was originally featured on foodcreate, we used a simplified version of an ice cream snowman so the children could all make their own. This was our pudding on Christmas day and the children loved making and eating them. Here’s how to make one: Read more »

Up-cycled flower pot presents: school gardening club

school gardening club fundraising
If you’re in need of any last minute Christmas gifts, borrow an idea we used for our School Gardening Club fundraising and make some pretty up-cycled flower pots. Read more »

Bug hotel: school gardening club

bug hotel
This week’s project for the School Gardening Club was to make a bug hotel. The idea is to create a cosy habitat for insects to shelter in over the winter. You can make your bug hotel structure from planks of wood layered up on bricks, pallets or crates, but one of our teachers discovered this cutlery tray in the old school kitchen – the perfect shape and size for our hotel. We stapled a plastic mesh on the back, just so the filling wouldn’t slip out of the back as soon as the children started filling it up. Read more »

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