Photo Challenge

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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Activities

Summer fun: Brainiac Live! Science Abuse

Science is now become really popular and kids are introduced to scientific topics in a very fun way. There are a lot of boffins around among our kids who are all a bit geeky these days. You can even organise science parties and make slime and make explosions etc. But only the Brainiacs can do the riskier type of experiments that we could not try at home but we would love to watch. The popular TV…
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Photo Challenge

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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Get Creative

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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Attractions

FREE Family friendly London attraction: Vauxhall City Farm

During the recent launch of Munch Bunch storytelling contest at Vauxhall City Farm we have taken the opportunity to browse around this farm which has a great motto: Celebrating keeping the Lamb in Lambeth for 35 Years. This is a unique and perfectly hidden rural gem amidst the heart of The City. Vauxhall City Farm provides a slice of countryside life and living amongst the hectic, urban backdrop…
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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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Photo Challenge

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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Get Creative

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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Attractions

BST Hyde Park 2013: Bon Jovi, The Beach Boys headliners draw 10,000+ families

Bon Jovi and The Beach Boys Headline BST Hyde Park Festival, Drawing Over 10,000 Families on the Hottest Day of the Year for a Spectacular Day of Sport, Comedy, Kids Entertainment & Music for All Ages. No need to say that this Sunday was a very special day in London. For a start it was super hot like never before, the Andy Murray won Wimbledon and Hyde Park was buzzing with families and kids…
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