Overland with Kids

With copyright permission of Lauren Child, we commissioned a company called www.costumesandmascots.com to make an adult sized ‘Pesky’ costume (mascot) and 4 of the main rod puppet characters (Pierre the Chinchilla, Oscar the Siamese Cat, Nibbles the Rabbit and Andrew the Scottie Dogs) especially for us, in time for the shows. See here for more information about the shows.
As the shows have [...]

We’ve been busy collecting and stealing cardboard and cereal packets as well as personally contributing by way of buying materials to help us make some homemade stick and lollipop puppet kits for the children of Burlacu, Moldova. We’ve managed to make about 200 kits in total and have sold some at our fetes. We’re hoping these [...]

“A little boy received a Christmas Box containing a small toy car in a box - apparently he has not opened the little box it is so special and every day has been going around carrying it carefully  everywhere with him - with everything packed neatly away as originally received - it is so precious to [...]

The childrens school held a digital photography workshop at school last weekend entitled ‘how I like to learn’. Jessica was able to experience using a camera and allowed to take photographs and compile into a presentation using anything she felt appropriate. Other media such as PSPs and Apple Mac’s etc. was also made available. It was [...]

Jessica has been given an early Christmas gift of a year’s monthly subscription to this magazine (thank you Margaret and Alan!). Us adults have been reading it too! Packed full of interesting information aimed at primary age school children, photos and posters and things to do. To find out more, their website is www.ngkids.co.uk

We have been struggling to find geographical resources for our children and on looking at the RGS website www.rgs.org and wanting to eagerly find some colourful, bright and zany information from this wonderful organisation are instead left wondering ‘why’ there isn’t a web resource section dedicated to children aimed at e.g. age 5 - 11 [...]

There are some great on-line educational websites available. Jessica already logs onto the cbbc website now and again and we performed a trial enrollment in the Telegraph’s Grid Club - both Jessica and AJ really enjoyed. The reality however is that this is not a method of educational resource we normally use - not knocking it - but [...]

Jessica and AJ love books and it forms huge part of their regular daily educational and enjoyment routine currently. It is a great way of relaxing, connecting and escaping together. Thinking about what equipment to bring along with us for children that is educational, fun, practical and easy to use for reading.  This led us to having a look at [...]