There is so much going on in our lovely city at the moment, that I thought I would collate a list of my highlights of children’s activities in Melbourne, for the month …
Children’s Pets
We have a beautiful border collie dog named Millie. Millie is now a much quieter dog than she used to be as she has passed her 13th year. She has always been …
Children’s Timetable Term 4, 2008
Regular readers of Planning With Kids will be familiar with this post. Each term I create a timetable for the children to assist them in being responsible for managing their own tasks. …
School Holiday Activities – Animation At ACMI
This was the second of our two major outings during the second week of school holidays. For this school holiday activity we went to ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) at …
School Holiday Activity – Swordfighting!
Last week I wrote a list of 10 School Holiday Activities in Melbourne. One school holiday activity that was on the list was Swordfighting. This week the children, a friend and myself …
10 School Holiday Activities In Melbourne
****** Click here for September 2011 School Holidays. ****** [flickr id=”2149327309″ thumbnail=”medium” align=”center”] Image by johnpetru82 I read lots of blogs from mums in the northern hemisphere and during our winter this …
My Typical Day
A reader sent in this request to me recently: “After reading your past posts i found myself wondering how on earth you find the time to do all the things you …
10 Top Posts For August
[flickr id=”509812109″ thumbnail=”medium” align=”center”] Image: Jared Goodbye August, Hello September! This month’s collection of posts have been split between craft and family organisation 50:50. There is always so much great stuff to …
Children’s Book Council Awards
The winners of the Children’s Book Council Awards were announced on Friday. My older two children read with anticipation the winners in Saturday’s morning’s paper. Like most Australian school children they had …
Tips To Make Bath Time Easier
[flickr id=”38634962″ thumbnail=”medium” align=”center”] Photo: frielp A regular reader emailed me asking what we did at bath time and for any tips that I might have making these part of the day …
Christmas Planning In July – Home Made Works Of Art
SPOILER ALERT – To my family and to the children’s “special” friends, please do not read on as you may see your Christmas Gift for this year! Last week I showed the …
Children’s Timetable Term 3, 2008
New term and new timetable. There were just a few minor changes that I needed to make to the Children’s Timetable from Term 2. I have been creating these timetables for a …
9 Tips For Organised School Mornings
The children headed back to school and preschool today after two weeks of holidays. We thoroughly enjoyed rising at any time (me with the first child of the day, which was at …
School Holiday Activity – Animation
Today myself and all four children plus a friend of the Thinker’s, caught the train into the city to Federation Square. Our first activity was to see the free kids flicks. They …
School Holiday Activity – Baking Biscuits
100s of Biscuits Recipe Ingredients: 500g butter 1 tin condensed milk 1 cup sugar 5 cups self-raising flour Optional Ingredients: Hundreds and Thousands Choc Chips Coconut Strawberry Jam Instructions: These are very …
Planning Time For The Park
When Thinker (now 9.5 y.o) and Little Rascal (now 7) were toddlers/preschoolers we spent a lot of time at parks and playgrounds. As we have had more children and the number of …
10 Reasons To Look Forward To School Holidays
I genuinely look forward to school holidays. I think with this long term, I have been counting down the days as much as the children have been! Sometimes it can get a …
Rotating The Children’s Toys
Back in February I reorganised the children’s toy shelf that we have in the family living area. I had noticed how over the last week or so, the majority of the toys …