Make your own bat puppet

Just came across a fantastic activity sheet on how to make your own bat puppet on the Wild Over Waterways (WOW) site. Looks easy to do and pretty realistic, so not for the feint hearted. If fact I think there's even an activity sheet for making your own bat wings, should you fancy. For a calmer afternoon (with nice, quiet girls) there's also sheets on making origami swans, frogs, boats and even a stencil for your watering can.

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Life saver

Even before you walk into a kids' bedroom you can tell if they're a boy or a girl. Are you tripping over cars/ lego/ blue stuff or dolls/ clothes/ pink stuff. Here's one for the unisex bedroom or playroom (should you be lucky enough to have a designated playroom...), a delicious nautical life ring cushion. Looks great, feels comfy, built to last plus you save £5 if you buy them both together. Available from TGLTC.

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Ground, swallow me up!

Have started a fun list here of truely embarrassing moments your child has innocently given you, starting with:

1) Top of my bunch is a shopping trip to PC World. Ds is four, and has just started to discover the magic of Roald Dahl. Excitedly, be grabs my hand, drags me away from my inspection of the cheapest flat screens over to a very, very rotund lady in the digital voice recorder section (eerie how this is all still so crystal clear in my mind) and says, 'mummy, mummy, look it's her! It's violet from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! And she's turning violet, look! Look!' Ds smothered quickly, fed lollypop, all exit shop. Days before we go out again.

Hope over to my other blog or add yours here!

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Dennis the Menace go-kart

So this looks JUST LIKE the go-kart my brother (he's 10 years older) made me in one of his more evil moods (he left a 2 inch nail sticking up on the seat and I spent that afternoon in A&E. Formative memories.). But once I got over that I could see straight away how much my nearly-6-year-old would go for this Dennis themed go-kart, even knowing nothing of The Menace.

There are only 70 available to commemorate Dennis's birthday, and they're built to last by the kids furniture company.

Check out the 'MENACE 1' numberplate and tell me you don't want one...

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One sandwich short of a lunchbox?

Having trouble getting your son to come home with his lunchbox, never mind remember it in the am rush? Get one of these brilliant Lego lunchboxes. Not quite wide enough for a banana but definitely deep enough for sandwiches, crisps and a cereal bar. Plus, no nasty clips to break or pop open in their satchel. How cool is that?

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Here I diddly go!

Here's my first find, and the reason I thought about setting this blog up: The Yukkiest Site on the Internet. I know, you've probably seen it all before but my 5 year-old is totally into this... mud, worms, poo... WOW! Well done these folks for pitching it just right!

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