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Presenting the Makedo construction kit
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 20/07/2010 in Art & Craft
Children who adore arts, crafts and junk modelling will love this clever kit
It’s a well-known fact that children just love to play with cardboard boxes, transforming them into everything from spaceships to Wendy houses. Inspired by his son’s passion for junk modelling, industrial designer Paul Justin has come up
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DEER SHED FESTIVAL: JULY 22-24
By Catherine O'Dolan on 17/06/2011 in Days Out
Junior's Festival Guide checks out the Deer Shed Festival 2011
. For the kids A range of free musical, artistic and energetic pursuits, including seaside fun on an artificial beach, junk modelling and badge-making and, for the musically minded, ukelele workshops. Added extras Greentop Circus Cabaret in the Big Top, a
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Good old fashioned games
By Judith Eagle on 16/10/2007 in Parent skills
If you’re nostalgic for simple childhood pleasures, nurture your child’s imagination with spontaneous back-to-basics activities rather than expensive toys or a structured schedule of events. Try some of these more traditional play ideas
different when children discover that everyday objects can represent other things. Collect boxes, tubes and containers, feathers, glitter, sequins, brightly coloured cellophane, foil, corks, string, straws and PVA glue. “Making fun junk models together is a
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Question time with Marcus Wareing
By Catherine O’Dolan on 06/05/2008 in Celebrity chefs
More exclusive musings from the award-winning chef and father-of-three
other that often. Would you like to have more television exposure like Jamie?If you’re destined to be on TV, you’re snapped up straight away, like a beautiful model walking down the street, you get spotted. That how it was for Jamie. He was working in a
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The Family Festival Guide 2012
By Catherine O'Dolan on 04/05/2012 in Days Out
Junior's pick of the most fabulous family-friendly festivals around
's their third year), Deer Shed Festival exudes relaxed charms and is most definitely geared up for family enjoyment with a mix of music, arts and delicious locally sourced foods, plus a wide range of family workshops with junk modeling, frolics on an artificial
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Festival fun
By Kate Donoughue on 08/04/2011 in Leisure
Take in a child-friendly festival this summer
-ass audio adventurists” The Go! Team, and The Leisure Society. For the kids A range of free musical, artistic and energetic pursuits, including seaside fun on an artificial beach, junk modelling and badge-making and, for the musically minded, ukelele
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