In The Playroom 
The Irish have been blessed with some of the most beautiful names in the world. Here are some of the top Irish girls’ names and top Irish boys’ names, that just happen to be some of our favorites.
How to choose the perfect name for your baby? Once you find out that you’re pregnant, it’s one of the big decisions that takes up a lot of brain space over the next 9 months. There is lots to consider – do you want a popular name, a unique Irish name or something that’s a little easier to spell?
Today we have a fun handprint shamrock craft idea using simple materials that would make a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day project for kids to make at home, or as part of their classroom celebrations. This is one of the most easy shamrock crafts that you could find!
St. Patrick’s Day is coming up soon (March 17th). To mark the occasion, you can make this easy Shamrock craft with the kids, using their own little handprints, then they can display their own shamrocks or even use the handprints to create a St. Patrick’s Day card for friends and family.
Most children love colors and mixing them together. They get the opportunity to play with their own creativity by making different combinations and shades.
How do we mix different colors, make a lighter shade or a darker shade?Offering color mixing activities is a great way to allow the children to discover the outcomes for themselves, and to be amazed by the results.
The activities in this blog post will have children mixing and matching their own colors in order to discover what they need to make the color green – and the rest of the colors in the rainbow.
My kids are crazy about Spider-Man, from the 5 year old to the 10 year old, Spider-Man is definitely the favorite Marvel comic book character.
Today we have a special printable pack of Spiderman coloring pages and activity worksheets to share with you.
This Spiderman printables pack includes:
These activities in the Marvel Spiderman printable kit are a fun way to work on motor skills, color recognition and spend some free time together, with these printable pictures featuring our favorite radioactive spider guy!
Here’s a list of some awesome, easy to make winter crafts for kids—all you need is a few basic craft supplies and you’re all set for some creative fun indoors this January. Perfect for a snow day!
It can be hard to know what to make with the kids once the Christmas crafts are finished, but we are still in the middle of Winter. In this post, you will find easy, inexpensive crafts you can make with your kids this winter, from snowflakes to polar animals, to winter mittens.
These simple ideas are particularly suited to the preschool age, although can be enjoyed by older kids and younger kids too, of course!
Cooking is one of the most important life skills to teach our children. Having a good level of knowledge and understanding about how to prepare food, and the nutrients that we need to include in our day to day diet’s is such valuable information for them as they grow up and make their own way in life.
There are lots of fun ways to help our children develop these skills, and today I’m going to to share some fun cooking games for kids that you can use as a resource for introducing these topics to your little ones.
Online games can be a fun and easy way to introduce topics for kids of all ages. We have been using a few of these games alongside our hands on activities, to help the kids build up the knowledge of kitchen skills and where food comes from.
If the term ‘wild camping’ makes you shudder at the thought of roughing it, maybe think again. There are plenty of reasons to go wild camping and ‘wild’ doesn’t necessarily mean being eaten by bears – wild camping is just a more interesting way of saying you’re not paying to stay at a campsite.
What you must bear in mind though is that camping in the UK is illegal apart from in Scotland and some national parks such as Dartmoor. Saying that though, although wild camping isn’t actually legal in the UK, it’s largely tolerated and you probably won’t get arrested or shot if you pitch up in a remote field overnight. It is good manners to ask the farmer or landowner for permission first though.
Sewing in a small space is perfectly possible. It may be our dream to have a huge sewing studio in a summer house at the end of the garden but for most of us mere mortals, we have to make do with the small space we have available in our homes.
Perhaps your small space is a corner of the dining room, a balcony on your apartment in London or maybe you’re lucky enough to have an entire room, albeit a small one.
Whatever your circumstances, sewing in a small space can be done and I’m going to show you how.
This easy snowflake craft is fun for kids to make and is the perfect activity for a winter party or family night. You can even turn these snowflakes into ornaments to hang up on your tree as a Christmas decoration.
I don’t know about you, but I am always looking for ways to keep my kids busy. And since the weather has been freezing cold lately, I have been especially searching for ways to keep them entertained indoors.
This is where this project comes in—making a super simple snowflake craft that can be made using using popsicle sticks, glitter, and a little patience.
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and there are lots of creative ways to help your kids celebrate this special holiday! With these cute valentine coloring pages, your kids will have a blast creating colorful designs to give to their loved ones.
Spending quality time together with our kids is an easy and effective way to say “I love you”, so we’ve created a Valentine’s Day coloring book that you can do together.
In this coloring book, your kid will be able to choose one of seven adorable illustrations and then color them by numbers (instead of just using crayons).
Each page comes with a color by number key at the top so that kids can practice their colour and number recognition as well as working on fine motor skills. After they’ve colored the pictures, they could add a special message on the back of each page.
Color by number is an activity that can be done with kids as young as 2 years old, with some help. While older kids can complete these pages independently. Either way, they will have a lot of fun while doing it!