Want to know why every mum (and mom) needs Pinterest, and discover some brilliant boards to follow? I have some great picks for you today as I’m taking part in Pinterest’s PinItForwardUK campaign. Read on to discover my top boards for all things kids.
Why every mum needs Pinterest
I love Pinterest! It’s my favourite place online to gather, find and share ideas. Are you using Pinterest yet? If not – come and join us!
Click through here to register and you can follow NurtureStore. It’s really easy to get started. Pinterest will help you get things rolling by suggesting some fabulous boards to follow, and you can set up your own boards to suit exactly what you and your family are interested in. The wonderful thing about Pinterest is that how you use it is really up to you. You choose what to collect on your boards, and who to follow. It’s like an free online magazine that’s just focused on things you love, and that brings you new ideas whenever you go browsing.
There are three reasons I think every mum needs Pinterest.
1. It helps you to be organised
I think I’m a fairly typical mum, running home, kids, family, work. My head is always full of plans and ideas and things to do. Pinterest helps me manage all that. It’s a place to dream, plan, imagine, get inspiration and organise. It lets you collate those gems of fab ideas in one lovely place – ready to dip into again when you need to get organised or take action.
2. It helps you enjoy some me-time
Because you can design your boards anyway you want, and pick who to follow, your own stream of pins is customised to show you just what you love the most. Cakes, gardens, kittens, fashion, interiors… whatever! Create your account and then you have a little online inspiration to browse whenever you get a few minutes to yourself. And because you can have Pinterest on your phone you can pop in whether you’re waiting for your kids to finish ballet class, you’re in the playground waiting for them to come out of school, or you have a few precious minutes before nap time is over.
3. It helps your family have fun
Pinterest is bursting with great ideas for kids. My We learn through PLAY! board has over 300 ideas on it that you can use to have fun with your kids – whether you’re looking for summer activities, ways to make learning fun, or need an idea to use this weekend. Come and take a look!
Join Pinterest and follow NurtureStore
Of course, at the beginning you need some really good boards to follow, so you have interesting stuff to look at when you’re on Pinterest. To get you started I’ve picked my top ten boards for parents: boards that bring you the best ideas around for kids and families. Click the image below and you’ll find my Top Ten Pinterest boards for parents – I think you will love them! You can also see my favourite boards for kids art and craft and my favourites for homeschooling.
Share your Pinterest favourites
Are you already on Pinterest and have you discovered a fabulous boards for mum or moms? Please share a link to your best board in the comments here so we can all take a look. {and hop on over to visit KidsChaos, Mummy’s Little Monkey and Mummy Loves tomorrow for even more pinspiration as Ali, Jaqui and Polly share their Pinterest gems.}
Happy pinning!
Hi ! I’m an avid pinner & mainly use Pinterest to support my teaching.
I really particularly pinning to
Alphabet & Phonics board – https://pinterest.com/hilarywhite3/alphabet-phonics/
Discovery & Exploration board – https://pinterest.com/hilarywhite3/discovery-exploration/
Malleable – Play Dough board – https://pinterest.com/hilarywhite3/malleable-play-dough/
Rachel (“,)
I love Pinterest and all your boards Cathy :). I can never get enough of play ideas, and our #playmatters board is growing a fab collection of wonderful play for kids. xo P
https://pinterest.com/lljournal/playmatters/
My Read.Explore.Learn. board is popular. https://pinterest.com/jdaniel4smom/read-explore-learn-ideas/
LOVE pinterest =) I’ve got lots of great seasonal boards… but here is my Preschool Play & Learn Board – https://pinterest.com/livinglifeinten/preschool-play-learn/
What a great idea…I am always looking for new boards to follow and be inspired by….it is my late night indulgance when my twins are finally asleep and the house is quiet. Love all your links too…great resource!
You can find me at https://pinterest.com/MumMusingMayhem/ Can’t wait to explore some new boards!
I love finding inspiration and fresh ideas from Pinterest boards! With summer around the corner, I’ve enjoyed gathering ideas for kids on https://pinterest.com/allihendrix/all-things-kids/
I love that my blog board about mindful parenting is my most popular board! https://pinterest.com/shawnlfink/awesomely-awake/
But, I’m also pretty partial to a new one I created called Thinking Parents News.
https://pinterest.com/shawnlfink/thinking-parents-news/
These are contradictory, I realize. : )
Great post, Cathy! As always … congrats on being a part of this campaign.
What a lovely way to find some new boards to follow! I’d be lost without Pinterest to help me plan and organise play ideas, birthday parties, home organisation and crafts for me as well (not just the kids!). My “Playful Science” board is one of my most popular boards. https://pinterest.com/ness/playful-science/ Thanks for inviting us to share.
I love pinterest! Its such a great place to find pretty much everything that I want in my life!! 🙂
Here’s my favourite board at the moment – Play Recipes – https://pinterest.com/Cplayhouse/play-recipes/
I love finding new, quality boards to follow! I use pinterst to find everything I’m looking for! This board highlights a number of the fun, purposeful, and practical things that I write about on my site for kids: https://pinterest.com/kedesigns/busy-kids-happy-mom/
I’m definitely a Pinterest addict, and I enjoy following your boards, Cathy! I especially focus on unit studies and seasonal themed boards on Pinterest. I don’t know what my best board is, although my Dr.Seuss Unit Study Board has the largest following with over a million followers: https://pinterest.com/debchitwood/dr-seuss-unit-study/. When I spent a year and a half in England while getting my master’s degree in early childhood studies, I noticed that Dr. Seuss isn’t nearly as popular in the UK as in the US. So I’ll love it if I can share the fun of Dr. Seuss with some families in the UK! 🙂
Pinterest! My favorite addiction! I totally agree with your post! I have over 50 boards, but always pin each of my blog posts (that include activities and crafts for kids, party ideas, as well as information about play therapy and parenting tips) to my “From PlayDrMom” board. https://pinterest.com/playdrmom/from-playdrmom/
I totally agree with you! I find so many ideas for my preschool class on Pinterest, and I already have tons of Mama Summer Camp from there too. My Fun-A-Day board houses many of my blog’s posts about keeping the FUN in learning! 🙂 https://pinterest.com/grok78/fun-a-day/
I love Pinterest for helping me organize my Daycare curriculum and keeping track of all kind of great ideas (my own and others) for crafts, recipes, party planning, home organization, and parenting! Here is one of our popular boards: https://pinterest.com/MamasLikeMe/keeping-kids-busy/
Can’t wait to check some of these out! Here is our board…, https://pinterest.com/jillm3/
Ooooh, I love discovering new Pinterest boards. Will definitely check these out. Here’s one of our most popular boards, Hands-On Science: https://pinterest.com/creeksidelearn/hands-on-science/
Great idea, Cathy! Here’s our blog board of kid activities as well: https://pinterest.com/acitr/fun-at-home-with-kids-blog-activities/
What a lovely idea! Thank you!
My most popular board is Messy play: https://pinterest.com/vasate/messy-play/
Pinterest is by far my favorite place to go to discover things from recipes and crafts to all kinds of activities with kids! Here’s my board: https://pinterest.com/cmarashian/posts-from-buggy-and-buddy/
Thank you Cathy! I love pinterest and save dozens of educational ideas to share with my families at work, but also enjoy ideas for the home, garden, DIY projects, and recipes too. It is so difficult to pick just one, but most of my posts are on this one: https://pinterest.com/kristi_cck/creative-connections-for-kids/
I’m loving all these great boards! I have a son just beginning to read, and I frequently search Pinterest for reading and writing ideas, collected on this board: https://pinterest.com/pleasantest/emerging-literacy/
I am planning a school room makeover and pinned kid-friendly playrooms and learning spaces like crazy a few weeks ago. https://pinterest.com/tlc543/kid-spaces/
Pinterest is such a useful place to find ideas. I’m collecting parenting articles and tips on my Raising Thoughtful Kids Board. https://pinterest.com/momandkiddo/raising-thoughtful-kids/
I love Pinterest! Here is one of my favorite boards on literacy activities: https://pinterest.com/growingbbb/literacy-activities/
What a great idea! I love pinterest and use it to collect ideas, tips and resources for raising globally-minded kids. You can fine my “Culture Books for Kids” board here. https://pinterest.com/cultureeveryday/culture-books-for-kids/
Here’s mine — https://pinterest.com/melissa_taylor2/ – I’m all about making learning fun & engaging for kids! 🙂
I love Pinterest too, Cathy 🙂 I love my group board for preschoolers. Teachers, caregivers, and parents help me find new ideas each month for my messy play and preschool classes. https://pinterest.com/kidschaos/pin-it-preschool-scavenger-hunt-~-kids-creative-ch/
I can’t wait to look through all these great boards! I blog about train activities for kids, and I’ve been filling my Fun Train Stuff board with every cool train idea I find. https://pinterest.com/playtrains/fun-train-stuff/
Pinterest has been life changing. I love going there when I just need a creative pick-me-up. My most popular board is my Kids & Toddlers Ideas and Activities board https://pinterest.com/samanthasarles/kids-toddlers-ideas-and-activities/. I pin all of my creative inspiration for fun projects I want to try with my son.
LUV me my Pinterest! My absolutely favorite board is one that I have opened to collaboration called, “Children’s Art” and it is intended for ‘open-ended + process driven’ Art. There are also oodles of ‘projects’ that can pinned as well. https://pinterest.com/debbie_clement/childrens-art/ Thanks for all you do to bring the world some sunshine and inspiration!
Debbie Clement
RainbowsWithinReach
I love pinterest more than I can say! My favorite board would have to by my “Learning to read for kids”. There are so many great ideas out there! It is easy to find ideas and I’m always going back to look at them again later!
https://pinterest.com/cassie_osborne/learning-to-read-for-kids/
I find so much inspiration on Pinterest, and I am loving all of these new boards to check out. My favorite board is “Creative Kids’ Activities” https://pinterest.com/shaunnaevans/creative-kids-activities/. It’s dedicated to play ideas, learning activities, and parenting inspiration, and I share the board with some amazing new kid bloggers.
Here are a few of my personal favorite boards that we have:
https://pinterest.com/ifoodtv/better-breakfast/
https://pinterest.com/ifoodtv/the-sweetest-things/
https://pinterest.com/ifoodtv/just-4-kids/
https://pinterest.com/ifoodtv/foodie-diy/
LOVE PINTEREST! I love that it puts teaching tools and ideas into the hands of Parents so that we can begin at an early age giving our children just what they need to experience and learn! We have a number of boards categorized into age specific as well as varying subjects of focus. We’d love for you to visit and follow! Our After School Board is one of my favorites with so many great pinners working together to bring you activities for at home with school aged children https://pinterest.com/educatorsspinon/after-school-activities-adventures/ but our Bilingual Babies and World Culture has so many great ideas on it! https://pinterest.com/educatorsspinon/bilingual-babies-world-geography/ I’ll let your readers decide!
Love your boards, Cathy! Pinterest is one of the best inventions ever, in my opinion, because you can collect loads of ideas on your specific interest. I have whole boards dedicated to very focused topics, like ‘Play Kitchens’ or ‘Book Related Activities’, but my favourite board is my ‘Creative Play Ideas for Kids’ https://pinterest.com/mamapeapod/creative-play-ideas-for-kids/ board (where, naturally, you can find quite a few of your own ideas!) It focuses on ways to nurture children’s creativity through creative play.
I really like my Inspired by a Book Pinterest board https://pinterest.com/inspirationlabs/inspired-by-a-book/ where you’ll find lots of book-based activities for kids.
What a wonderful resource to make sure I’m following the greatest ideas out there (because we always need more!). If you need ideas on acts of kindness or service projects for kids, check out https://pinterest.com/penniesoftime/
Fantastic idea! I second Shaunna @ Fantastic Fun and Learning above- the Creative Kids’ Activities board is amazing! My favorite pin board right now is my Toddler Art pin board https://pinterest.com/twodaloo2/toddler-art/ where I pin lots of great ideas for process-based art projects for little artists!
Great idea! I love finding new boards and inspiration!
Here are a couple of boards that I’ve been pinning to often ~ FOR THE LOVE OF ARTS: https://pinterest.com/famigliaseoul/for-the-love-of-arts/ AND CONNECT:: SUMMER (ACTIVITIES FOR FAMILIES): https://pinterest.com/famigliaseoul/connect-summer/.
There are so many great boards out there? How do I narrow it down! I’m a pinterest ADDICT. 🙂 I love the Creative Kids’ Board mentioned above (https://pinterest.com/shaunnaevans/creative-kids-activities/) and my personal favorite boards are my Travel with Baby board (https://pinterest.com/rachael0612/travel-with-baby/) filled with tips and ideas for traveling with little ones and my “Baby Play” board with great ideas for little ones under one (https://pinterest.com/rachael0612/baby-play/)!
I love the Pinterest board~ Creative Kids’ Activities! Full of all kinds of kids learning and play activities for a variety of ages! https://pinterest.com/shaunnaevans/creative-kids-activities/
Wow this is brilliant, I love your blog and Pinterest boards. The PODcast grappling with a box of frogs blog launched in January and we recently joined Pinterest. Its perfect for the blog as I can showcase our days out and photography – messy play and ideas boards are also coming. We can be found here https://pinterest.com/podcastdove/boards/ thank you for following 🙂
Pinterest is my best friend! 🙂 Here is my frugal fun for kids board: https://pinterest.com/trueaim/frugal-fun-for-kids/
Love Pinterest! 🙂 My kids craft board is: https://pinterest.com/onemommy1/craft-ideas/
Pinterest is an awesome way to share ideas with other moms! https://pinterest.com/getsnazzy/ I pin about everything from babies to kids activities to food and fashion. Great post!
I spend way too much time on Pinterest. Right now I’ve been focused on my Summer Activities for Kids board. https://pinterest.com/thishappymom/summer-activities/
My best one for mums (dads etc etc) has to be my inspiration board for using my very favourite craft supply… hama beads!
https://pinterest.com/merrilyme/hama-beads/
Lots on this one for all types of beady crafter 🙂
Fun Stuff for the Kids is my board where we share anything fun for kids from food, party ideas and activities.
https://pinterest.com/flouronmyface/fun-stuff-for-the-kids/
My favorite board is my “Global Classroom” board- ideas to help teach kids about the world! https://pinterest.com/kidworldcitizen/global-classroom/
I am sooo addicted to pinterest!
If I have to pick just one favourite board I think it’s my ‘Fun Stuff For Kids’ board a collection of cool, fun, crazy things to do with your kids. https://pinterest.com/katepickle/fun-stuff-for-kids/
My favorite is my board “Christian Parenting” filled with crafts, books, activities all from a Christian perspective. https://pinterest.com/melissaknorris/christian-parenting/
Thanks so much for the mention in your blog post Cathy, much appreciated.
I’m loving Pinterest too https://kidschaos.com/pinspired-by-pinterest/ and my fave board is https://pinterest.com/incredibusy/a-greener-life-for-us/ xx
So looking forward to following some of these – there’s some great ones there, I’ve already started pinning from. I’m just trying to get started pinning my blog posts – need some more tutorials, rather than my usual general posts.
My most popular board is https://pinterest.com/etustian/food-sweet-ideas/ (why am I not surprised?!)
but otherwise it’s the Christmassy stuff board https://pinterest.com/etustian/christmassy-things/
I LOVE PINTEREST! I seriously spend way too much time, pinning! Here is one of my most popular boards: https://pinterest.com/clanyon/teaching-tidbits/
I love your NurtureStore Pinterest boards! They are so inspirational. I love to Pin in the wee hours of the morning with my cup of tea and no kids up yet…. a little slice of heaven.
My most popular board is Making Art with Kids: https://pinterest.com/barrucci/making-art-with-kids/
I love the NurtureStore boards! They are so inspirational. I love to pin in the wee morning hours, with my cup of tea and the children still asleep. A little slice of heaven…
My favorite pin board is Making Art with Kids: https://pinterest.com/barrucci/making-art-with-kids/