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Taking the Boredom Challenge with #PetitsFilousPlayFree

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‘I’m bored’ it’s the phrase we all dread, the one that makes us roll our eyes and remind our kids about all the toys they got for Christmas, the books stuffed into their bookcase and paints, paper and mountain of shiny things in the craft drawer. ‘I’m bored.’ Sometimes it seems like no matter how much stuff your kids have it’s never going to be enough to keep them entertained, I know I do a lot of raised eyebrows at this one! Petits Filous new Play Free campaign is all about letting your kids be bored and instead of trying to entertain them, letting them find their own solutions instead and it’s something I’m super excited to be involved in.

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Cool Christmas Gifts for Kids

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Last week I shared my recommendations for things you might like to ask for for yourself this Christmas and today I’m sharing my gift guide for kids with some of the coolest things to pop under the Christmas tree this year. I always like to get my kids a mixture of the things they’ve told me they really, really want as well as the things I actually know they’ll use. I don’t do the four gift rule but I do like to try and find things that I think my kids will really get some use out of! There’s affiliate links in this post and some of these items were gifted to me so that I could check them out and review them but I’ve only included stuff I’d genuinely give my children as well as stuff that I know they already love.

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50 Free Activities for Families To Try This Weekend!

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A couple of weeks ago I shared a list of free activities to do with your preschooler that proved to be super popular – it’s always nice to see your stuff shared a few thousand times on Facebook! One person did comment though that it’s nice to do stuff with the whole family so I thought I’d rise to the challenge and see how many free activities for families I could think of!

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How to display your kids artwork

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As you can imagine as a family we create quite a lot of art here. Not all of it ends up on the blog but there’s normally quite a lot of drawing, colouring and sticking going on too – most mornings my three year old seems to want to get the glue out within five minutes of waking up (a bit concerning as that’s normally when I work!) In our old home I washi taped the kids pictures to the wall but after moving to our new house and spending months renovating it I wanted to use something to display the kids art that was a bit….nicer.

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6 Activities for when your kid gets chicken pox

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Chicken pox is no fun for anyone involved. Both my kids have had it and it was horrid for them when they had it, horrid for them when they had to sty inside when the other one went down with it (stuck inside for another week) and it’s fair to say that I didn’t enjoy it much either, I spent one of my birthdays in the middle of my kids chicken pox outbreaks and the only time I’d been out of the house for two weeks was tag teaming with my husband so I could nip out and buy a pint of milk. Sometimes your kids will feel really poorly with chicken pox and all they’ll want to do is rest but there’s often a period too when they are well enough to do ‘something’ but they’re not well enough to go out and about again so with that in mind today I’m sharing some activities for during chicken pox.

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