Easy Solar System Craft!

Easy Solar System Craft!

Freckled Face number 3 is learning about Space at school at the moment. She wanted to make something at home to take in to school. So we decided to do something to do with the solar system. Here's what we came up with.... WHAT WE USED 2 sheets of black A4 card Glue Glitter (silver) [...]

Why we decided to not encourage our kids to write letters to Santa

Why we decided to not encourage our kids to write letters to Santa

Now I'm sure that I'm going to get a lot of feedback on this.....maybe even hate mail! BUT, I feel this is important and would like you to hear me out...😉 So, this year we decided that our 4 Freckled Faces were not going to write letters to Santa/Father Christmas, and list everything they would [...]

Freckled Face Friday – Geography

Hi everyone! I am Freckled Face number 1! Yay! I'm the oldest! I wanted to write about Geography. All About Geography Geography is really interesting for me because I like to find out about countries. Geography is about the world and countries. I find countries very interesting and every day I test myself on where [...]

Introducing Freckled Face Friday!

Over that past few weeks we have been trying to organise this blog and our blogging time. It's been....interesting! We have decided that on Fridays the post will be from one of Freckled Faces. We bring to you 'FRECKLED FACE FRIDAYS'! Myself and Dave would like to apologise now for any craziness that may follow [...]

DIY Traffic Lights Craft for Kids

DIY Traffic Lights Craft for Kids

With October being Black History month, the kids have been learning about prominent people in history at school. Freckled Face number 2 has been learning about the person who invented the traffic lights; Garret Morgan. In 1923 he improved the old traffic lights, which just had 'stop' and 'go', and invented the 3-Way Traffic Lights that [...]

Fun Colour Sorting Activity for Young Kids

Fun Colour Sorting Activity for Young Kids

So Freckled Face number 4 is loving getting arty and crafty! This morning I really needed to clean the kitchen, so I set up a little activity for her, which she absolutely LOVED and cried when she had finished it! Haha I decided to write the colours on the paper because I wanted her to [...]

Monkeying Around

So after a not so great week we decided that we were going to have a fun Saturday! We took a trip to Trentham Monkey Forest.  We had a school class bear with us too, so of course we had to show him a good time! The 'to do' list went out of the window [...]

One Special Day

After this weekend we have been left feeling so very blessed/lucky, grateful, cared for and loved! I hope you don't mind me sharing! As I mentioned in my 'About Me' page, we are members of 'The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' or more commonly known as 'Mormons'. (If you want to find [...]

Fossil Biscuits!

If your kids are anything like mine, they love baking (and eating!) and enjoy doing something a little different. Fossil biscuits went down a treat! Here is what you'll need: 6oz of butter (at room temp) 3oz of caster sugar 9oz of plain flour 1 tsp of cinnamon (optional and to taste) A big bowl [...]

Warwick Castle Adventure!

Wow wow WOW! What a weekend!! It was freckled face number 1's birthday and instead of a party he decided that he wanted to stay in The Knights Village at Warwick Castle. We had an AMAZING time!! The car journey didn't appeal to us; car journeys never do when you have kids with travel sickness, [...]