With millions of families choosing to stay in the UK for their holidays, it’s no wonder camping with kids is on the rise. According to Mintel data, 17.9 million camping trips were taken by UK adults in 2017, and almost an extra million trips expected to be taken this year. Taking the kids can seem like a challenge, but with a few pieces of handy advice it can be achievable and enjoyable for all!
Summer holidays don’t need to be expensive. In fact, kids love the simplest (and cheapest) things. It’s often us parents wanting to treat them to expensive attractions but when we were young in the good old 70s or 80s we did enjoy ourselves with virtually nothing. Take a look at London Mums’ suggestions for affordable Summer activities to do with kids. And please share your own ideas with…
Join the 3rd Creative Women’s Network, regular events founded by the renowned bloggers and authors Maggy Woodley of Red Ted Art fame and Vicki Psarias of Honest Mum. Learn how to become camera-ready from expert guests including Ab Fab star Harriet Thorpe and garner insight into the importance and rise of video in social media and how best to maximise your reach and visibility. Connect and…
SENsational Tutors Ltd., London’s leading Special Needs tuition company, has received funding from Westminster City Council to provide approximately 20 children in Westminster with a FREE place at its SENsationally Fun Summer Camp this August.
Geared towards combatting summer learning loss, the Summer Camp, will be run by a team of qualified teachers and learning and behaviour specialists and…
Summer is just around the corner. This year, the summer solstice, which marks the official start of summer, takes place on 21stJune. This brings with it warmer temperatures and longer daylight hours, which means greater demand for green spaces. The most important green space of all is, of course, your own garden. When the migration from indoors to outdoors takes place, you want to be sure that…
This blog post looks into ideas on how to transform your kids’ bedroom on a budget. Every now and then, you may feel motivated to give your child’s room a makeover, but what if you haven’t got the budget you’d like? Re-decorating isn’t often gentle on the bank account, especially when lots of new furniture is involved. Fortunately, there are things you can do to transform your…
To celebrate the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, millions of British royal fans will throw street parties and eat delicious food. A royal wedding is only a good excuse to get closer to neighbours we never talk to or make new friends in the local communities. It’s a great opportunity to get creative with the kids so we have tried some new crafts inspired both by my super talented…
Lots of people assume that if you live in London you don’t get to have a garden, but in reality, nearly 15% of Greater London is garden green space. This shows that it is entirely possible to have a family home with a garden in the city – although admittedly your garden may be a little smaller than gardens outside of the city!
If you want to transform your outside space into a family…
Easter break family fun does not need to be expensive at all. Read London Mums top holiday activities including indoors and outdoors entertainment which will cost you close to nothing.
Watch a movie
As for the first part of the Easter break there’s a bad weather forecast I suggest you look in your DVD library for your favourite family films and stay inside nibbling healthy snacks (and a…
This Winter has been too long and cold and I really look forward to this Spring – Easter break. It will be good for children too to be off school and get the much-needed mental energy to face the final rush before the Summer.
I also know that for mums it will be a challenging time trying to entertain the little (and less little) ones for almost three weeks. London is not a bad place at…