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Frozen Banana Lollies

Are you looking for a (fairly) healthy and fun snack for your kids? Then why not try these frozen banana lollies. They are super easy to make and just take half an hour to freeze. What you need: Bananas Lollipop sticks Honey or syrup Sprinkles

Method: 1. First chop your bananas in half. 2. Insert the lollipop stick into the banana. 3. Drizzled with honey or syrup. 4. Sprinkle on your hundreds and…

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How to survive the atrocious threes

How to survive the atrocious threes

We were very lucky and escaped the terrible twos. However the newly-nicknamed-by-us atrocious threes hit us hard in our household. Almost overnight, my gorgeous little boy turned into a little demon.

He still has moments where he is my gorgeous boy but mostly his behaviour is totally ghastly. So here is my (lighthearted!) guide to surviving the atrocious threes in 7 easy steps.

1.Drink.

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15 Fab Winter Craft Ideas

15 Fab Winter Craft Ideas

So Christmas may be over, but winter is definitely not finished yet. So we have decided to do a round up of our favourite 15 non-Christmas, Winter crafts and activities. Penguins, snowmen and owls feature quite heavily!! ⛄

Ripped paper can make some fantastic projects!

1. Rockabye Owl by Rockabye Butterfly -What a cute owl!

2.Penguin Craft by JDaniels4Mom – everyone loves Penguins this year…

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We Love Weekends 16th January

So today sees the first We Love Weekends Linky for 2015!

Sadly due to technology this week I am unable to have the Linky live on my blog so for those of you that would like to link up then please pop along to one of my lovely co-hosts sites and add your posts.

The We Love Weekends Co-Hosts are Peakle Pie, Witty Hoots, Best Toys 4 Toddlers, Raising Wild Ones & 101 Things to do with the Kids.

We…

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What will 2015 be bringing for 101thingstodowithkids?

So we are now nearly 2 weeks into 2015 and we are back into our normal routine – school runs, work, trying to fit housework in around it (and generally failing), after-school activities and so on.

I long for the weekend, when I can have a lie-in and don’t have to rush around like a headless chicken in the mornings to get everyone ready and out of the door with everything they should have!

So now…

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Leftover Selection Pack Rocky Road

If your house is anything like ours, then after Christmas, you are left with a mountain of chocolate and sweet treats.

We decided, after munching our way through ridiculous amounts, to use some of it up by making some delicious sweet treats.

So here is our recipe for leftover rocky road.

Ingredients:

200g dairy milk chocolate

1 tbsp. golden syrup

80g butter

1 crunchie

40g Cadbury Festive Friends…

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Dinosaur Shrinkles

One of Jack’s Christmas presents was a “Dinosaur Shrinkles” Set. I had no idea what this was, but he was nagging me to have a go at it with him, so we opened it up to see. It turns out that shrinkles are pretty cool! Basically there are pictures printed on some semi laminated paper that shrink and get fatter when you put them in the oven and then you can make them into magnets, or keyrings or…

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Panto Fun!

On the first Saturday in January, we took a family trip to see the pantomime in the local theatre.

Rachel had been to the pantomime once before in Redditch – with my in-laws three years ago. However, she had only made it through the first half as during that half, she had begun to develop spots and by the intermission she had become covered in spots that we later worked out was Chicken pox!

So…

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December in Photos

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Recycled Cinderella Carriage

Cinderella Carriage

Rachel’s homework for the Christmas period was to create a mode of transport using recycled materials.

We could have done the normal – car, boat, hot air balloon etc, – but we decided to be a little bit different and decided to make a horsedrawn carriage.

After looking for inspiration on the internet, we decided to do a Cinderella style carriage – which would be drawn by her Barbie horse.

What…

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Here is to 2014 – not a bad year!

splashing fun

trimming the material and ribbons ends at the back

gingerbread

look at that view

dunking the tee

I can’t reach

2014 A Year in the life of the Kettle Family Here is to 2014 - not a bad year!

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Happy New Year from 101thingstodowithkids

Well the New Year is upon us.

2015, we welcome you.

What will be in store for us this year? Who knows!

We hope for happiness, health and a decent amount of excitement. :-)

I have been hard at work planning ahead for the blog – rather than flying by the seat of my pants as we have been doing since mid November! – so hopefully there will be some fun and interesting things coming up for you to read…

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Making a frozen dress This was by far my most viewed post from 2014! It seems that the Frozen phenomenon has not yet waned!

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A chilly afternoon in the Park

A chilly afternoon in the Park

Well, after being cooped up inside for days, this afternoon, (Uncle Andrews birthday), as the sun was shining we wrapped everyone up and headed to the War Memorial Park.

Well, everyone except Daddy who wanted to stay and watch the football in peace! It was lovely out and although it was chilly, it was lovely to get everyone outside and enjoying the freedom and fresh air.

We strolled down past the…

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Merry Christmas Everybody!! - including the top 5 Christmassy things that we have been up to!

Merry Christmas Everybody!! - including 5 Christmassy things we have been up to!

After last months crazy blogathon, this month has been very quiet on the blog front, both in terms of writing and viewers. So what have we been up to?

Well, the fun of a long weekend in New York, followed by a busy and jam-packed schedule throughout the run-up to Christmas has ensured that the blog has taken the back seat – and if I am honest I think I kind of burnt myself out with NaBloPoMo!

Her…

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Mum and Dad in Manhattan - day 3!

Mum and Dad in Manhattan – day 3!

Our 3rd and final day in New York, and the weather was totally dismal. It was pouring with rain – and the rain there is brutal and very wet! We were tired out from 2 days of rushing around, so we decided to spend the morning mooching around and shopping. We headed to Times Square and firstly went into the Toys R Us shop. Let’s face it, the only shopping we really needed to do was for children –…

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Double Chocolate Digestive Truffles

Double chocolate digestive truffles. Yes please!!!

So while browsing Facebook this morning I came across a recipe from the Somewhat Simple website for Oreo chocolate truffles. As a massive fan of chocolates, particularly truffly ones(!), I decided to give it a go with my son this afternoon. We substituted the oreos for some amazing looking double chocolate digestives that we saw in the corner shop!

You need: 1 packet of chocolate digestives,…

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