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This easy handprint craft idea is perfect for any season and was really quick to do. No need to buy anything – just gather a few leaves and a handful of grass. We started with M’s handprint for the branches (you can just about see it! – it would have been better if the handprint [&hellip
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My sister gave me this contact for the ‘things to do with M when she is older’ vault – two of her daughters went to this arts & craft class last year and haven’t stopped talking about it since. The lady who runs the class is Margaret Walsh and she can be contacted at 086 [&hellip
I don’t know if the races will involve wind up ducks or the local mallards but either way it sounds like fun.… To coincide with the JP McManus Pro-Am Adare are hosting a festival of fun for all the family, not just the golfers. From Friday July 2nd to Tuesday the 6th there will be [&hellip
The Hunt Museum has been in touch to tell me about an upcoming event that might just keep your little ones amused and inspired! You and your kids are invited to join Italian born Federica Cima on an exploration of the arts and crafts from countries around the world. Starts next Sunday, June 6th, 2.30 [&hellip
Here’s a simple and really pretty craft from Usborne’s 365 Things to Make and Do – an absolutely amazing activity book. Contains projects such as fabric collages, leaf printing, spoon-people, door signs, gift tags, dangly cowboys and many more cool things to make, draw and paint – with simple step-by-step instructions. click to see kite [&hellip
These award winning craft kits are my ‘fab find of the day’ – they contain everything you need to make your own puppet. Kits available include a pirate, princess, wheelie alien, santa, clown, witch, giraffe, lion, pig, monkey, robot and ballerina. The range is aimed at children aged 4+
Perfect for birthdays, a summer garden party or when you’re expecting an invasion of cousins! I chickened out of having a party for Molly’s recent 4th birthday and just brought a cake and some goodies into her montessori school. She had a great time – being the center of attention and having 17 kids singing [&hellip
With styrofoam eggs we also made these adorable little egg-animals. I had only a restricted range of acrylic paint colours – if only I had some white paint I could have lightened them up. We made a dog, pig and cat but the herd could be expanded infinitely e.g owl, skunk, mouse
Interactive live theatre for kids aged 4+ Louis Lovett (of Father Ted fame) is one of Ireland’s most experienced performers for young people. I just saw a piece on RTE’s Nationwide (while waiting for Britain’s Got Talent!) about Louis and his work for children from age 4 onwards, including the delightfully imaginative one-man children’s play [&hellip
The busy beavers at Daghdha Dance are running a dance weekend on the 25, 26 and 27th of June at their No1 John’s Square studio. It’s the perfect chance for kids to experience more than one dance class a week during that late June weekend, and have some fun
The only one of these schools I have personal experience of is Alex Dalton’s School of Dance. I, with Molly on my lap, sat in on the saturday morning baby ballet class to get a sense of what it was like and if M was ready for it. It is a far more structured class [&hellip
When Molly was about two she was escaping from her GroBag and climbing out of her cot. The nightly battles to get her to just lie down and go to sleep were driving me round the twist. It was only a matter of time before she had a serious fall so, thankfully, I listened to [&hellip
Molly didn’t spare us in the first two years. One of the challenges she rolled our way was blue attack condition. This only started when she was about 15months, after we started her in a creche. I can see now that this was triggered by separation anxiety – they were panic attacks really and happened [&hellip
This Friday, 28th May University Concert Hall at 9.45am & 12 noon Disney’s Jungle Book is to be the first in a series of films to be screened at UL’s Concert Hall. As well as enjoying the film kids will be encouraged to sing along to some of the best loved Disney songs, including my [&hellip
If this weather holds for the weekend you’ll probably head for the coast but if you are in Limerick here’s something different for next Sunday May 30th, 4pm. A free African drumming public performance will be held outside the Council Chamber in City Hall. This dynamic performance by over 60 secondary students from Limerick is [&hellip
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