Children’s Activities – with a touch of Melbourne!

Childrens activities you can do at home and monthly posts on children’s activities in Melbourne. Emphasis is on low cost or free kids activities.

Kids Activities – Childrens Performing Company of Australia + Give Away

December 1, 2011

The give away is now closed. The winner was Helen Nottle – “That would be perfect for my 10 year old son Jared. We moved this year and I am still not forgiven because we had to leave his drama group and he misses it so much. He loves having funny lines and enthusiastically delivers [...]

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School Holidays Melbourne – Kids Activities Dec / Jan

December 1, 2011

Home stretch now until school finishes up and the summer school holidays are upon us. Of course that is if Melbourne decides to actually deliver summer this year! If you are still in the midst of your Christmas shopping, some of these activities would make great Christmas gifts for kids. Here is some of my [...]

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Christmas Gift Ideas For Kids

November 25, 2011

This post is part of my 10 week Christmas Preparation Plan for 2011. This originally was planned to be a post for Christmas gift ideas for boys, but I had a number of readers email and ask could I include Christmas gift ideas for girls too. So I have collated a list based on age [...]

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VTech Storio Review + Give Away!

November 21, 2011

Thanks to all who entered – Kim was the winner and has been notified – “The little girl who lives next door, her parents are alcoholics and don’t believe in Christmas”. This post is sponsored by Nuffnang. We have had the Vtech Storio for less than a week and I can already see it is [...]

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Daily Schedule For Kids

October 21, 2011

{If you are reading via email you may need to click through to see the video.} I have posted before about the daily schedules (timetables) that I create with my kids to help them keep themselves organised for kinder and school. This video show how I update the daily schedule for the younger kids. It [...]

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Scrabble Tips + Scrabble Give Away

October 18, 2011

Entries for this give away are now closed. The winner was Kara-lee Dewhirst – “I was introduced to Scrabble by my grandmother who dared me to beat her. I was only 6 at the time and this was a woman who read the dictionary for fun. She never let me win I had to earn [...]

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Melbourne Cup Day Activities

October 12, 2011

My home town Melbourne has a very vibrant horse racing scene. The Spring Carnival is on at the moment, with the big days being incorporated in the Melbourne Cup Carnival. The Melbourne Cup Carnival is made up of 4 key race days at Flemington Racecourse: Saturday 29th October is Derby Day Tuesday 1st November is [...]

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Roar ‘n’ Snore – Melbourne Zoo

October 6, 2011

After we watched the Lion King, we headed to the Melbourne Zoo for the Roar ‘n’ Snore evening. My younger kids had been telling everyone they met, they were going to sleep at the zoo. Part of me was a little bit worried that the experience might not live up to the hype – thankfully [...]

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Lion King 3D Review + Giveaway!

October 6, 2011

This give away has now closed and the winner was Ash! Thanks for visiting Planning With Kids! The Planning With Kids family were invited by Porter Novelli to celebrate the release of the Lion King in 3D, by attending a private screening in the Director’s Suite and then spend the night at Melbourne Zoo with [...]

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Kids Activities Melbourne – September School Holidays 2011

September 11, 2011

Two weeks until school holidays are here in Victoria – so looking forward to them! I have listed just 10 great kids activities in Melbourne, we are really lucky with how many we have to choose from. My emphasis has been towards central, low cost and free activities. 1. Born to be Wild 3D This [...]

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Como House – Café Bursaria

September 10, 2011

On Friday I visited Como House in South Yarra for the first time. I had the pleasure to have morning tea with Jolie from Hey Bambini, Jo from Little Melbourne and Joyce from Tot Hot or Not at the cafe there – Café Bursaria. It was lovely to connect in person with women who I [...]

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Rugby World Cup 2011 – Flags To Print

September 1, 2011

Last June I posted an activity for kids about flags of the world, based on the Football World Cup for “the beautiful game” or soccer as most Australians call it. (The photo above is of this activity.) This September sees another world cup event, the Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand – “the game [...]