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Tips For Getting Your Kids To Be Creative

The world through a child’s eyes is a place of wonder and endless possibilities. Children have an innate creativity and sense of wonder, filling in the blanks of the unknown with their imagination. Unfortunately, modern technology and toys often take up the time and space that kids would otherwise fill dreaming up new worlds, new answers and new ideas. As we use creativity in solving problems…
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9 Boredom Busting Tips for Your Kids This Summer

Want to keep your kids occupied this summer in ways that won’t blow your budget? Kids usually have lots of creativity so there’s no need to spend money or give them an electronic device to keep them entertained (at least not always). Here are some excellent boredom busting tips on how to have fun on a budget this summer. Here selected boredom busting videos presented by children’s…
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Stripes | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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Landscape at dusk - Photo Critique

This week I got sent a lovely image from one of our readers in Canada of the Toronto skyline taken from the inner harbour. The image follows last week’s Photography Challenge theme Landscapes at Dusk I’ll be sharing some of my thoughts on this image but please feel fee to add your own in the comments below. A short walk from home is the inner harbour in Toronto where…
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Landscapes at dusk | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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Best art & craft books for the Summer 2013

Here is London Mums’ selection of art & craft books for this summer. Enjoy! Myleene Klass’s manual ‘Things to Make and Do With Your Children’ Packed full of stories, rhymes, activities and advice, Myleene Klass’ THINGS TO MAKE AND DO WITH YOUR CHILDREN will be one of the best ever art & craft books for 2- to 5-year-olds. Published as a big bumper book, this fabulous…
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Story time with actress Tamzin Outhwaite & talented storytelling mums

Recently we met former Eastenders actress Tamzin Outhwaite at Vauxhall Farm for an exclusive interview which will be published in our next London Mums magazine. She met a group of London Mums and told the story written by a mum who won the Munch Time competition previously. Check our this amazing and special story time only for us in this sweet video: What’s more interesting is that mums…
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The Colour Blue | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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THE LEGACY OF HAND-MADE

Hands up who has memories of their mum, grandmother, aunt making things at home for the family? I would try to guess when we went to visit, if my grandmother was baking or making chutney – one I was more keen on than the other – but having access to this world of culinary creativity has been revived within me now that I have children of my own. My mother would squirrel away remnants…
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