Blog Profile / Be A Fun Mum
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| Archived Since: | July 23, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Giveaway: Children’s Books!
I’ve joined together with 8 lovely pages to do a meaningful giveaway for the New Year. Books! Wonderful, wonderful books! The pack includes the best of the best children’s books to kick start any home library. Imagine how many wonderful snuggly moments you could spend with these tales! To enter The giveaway is for (1) [...]
5 Messy Play Ideas That Aren’t That Messy
Guest Post by Danielle from Keeping Up With the Holsbys Danielle from Keeping Up With the Holsbys always amazes me with her yummy recipes and energy for life. Check out her the Easy Green Vegetables and Basil Pasta Recipe, gorgeous Giggle and Hoot Cake and Easy Playdough Recipe here on Be A Fun Mum, and [...]
Most Delighful 30 Minutes This Week
The most delightful 30 minutes of this week happened under a tree with this girl. I saved cheap baubles from Christmas to decorate the children’s favourite backyard tree (permanently). You can often buy plastic baubles in the post Christmas sales. My children often play in this tree, and so I invested, bit by bit, in [...]
Ice Treasure Hunt
The happiness in his face says it all! I’ve seen this sort of ice treasure hunt idea a few times while searching the Internet, and I thought it looked like fun. My son loves ice, and we’ve done different things before using it in play: Arctic Play Scene, Ice Cube Painting, Dinosaur Ice Blocks. The [...]
Stand Tall and Bright Like a Yellow Daisy Against the Blue Sky
The thrill of wrapping a length of blue twine around a fresh posy of yellow flowers! I wonder if it makes me strange that such a simple task produced such enjoyment on my part. I looked over my one minute job with the satisfaction of a day’s work! I saved a few flowers ($5 a [...]
3D Adventure Scene in a Jar
They turned out even better than I expected! The idea for this activity is to create a 3D scene in a jar using a photograph of the kids on a themed background. So, in a sense, they are transformed into another world! It’s very, very cool. The making process was a lot of fun too, [...]
Time Spent. Time Given.
Time heals. It’s a term often used in relation to grief. I mentioned as such in my post about mothering motherless. Time spent, heals. Looking at the other side of the fence: Time given heals too. I’m talking about cracks. You know those fine cracks that appear in family life, and personally too? The ones [...]
Ever Thought About Starting a Business with your Kid
Guest Post By Sam Shazzam Have you ever thought about starting up a business in partnerships with your kids? I have. I actually spend a bit of time imaging what that could look like. The thing about kids is they have so many creative, great ideas. The challenge as a parent is the ideas often [...]
Streamer Cubby House
This picture of my daughter captures her bright spirit. She is the person I had in mind when I put this streamer cubby house rig up, and I was right to think she would enjoy it. School holidays are in full swing here now. Christmas is finished, and we are enjoying many quiet days at [...]
Can I Have a Banana?
My head throbbed, and I felt like banging it against the wall. But instead, I put it into my pillow. Nasty, nasty headache. I was trying to parent from my bed this particular afternoon, at least until the medication kicked in. “Mum, can I have a banana?” My 9-year-old daughter appeared at my bedside sometime [...]
Pearls In a Glass of Water
A simple posy. A clear glass. A strand of fake pearl beads. There’s a silent triumph in throwing together such simple beauty. Yes, there is. There’s a quiet joy looking through the clear into the prettiness of it. Yes, there is. There’s a whisper of possibility, knowing such beauty is all around, if only we [...]
Dinosaur Ice Blocks
It was his idea. He found a dinosaur shaped silicone cake mould in the cupboard, and asked if we could make dinosaur ice in them instead of cake. Why not! What a clever way to use them. So, I filled up the tray, and then placed in the freezer. Later, we pressed the ice out [...]
Christmas: Experience Gift Ideas
This year, I’ve had a lot of fun trying out different RedBalloon experience gifts. Adventure is important to me, and so is making memories with my family so I thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the blogger program. Christmas is just around the corner so I’m putting all my RedBalloon experiences in one post as they [...]
Learning How to Do Smokey Eye Makeup
Trying out different RedBalloon experience gifts is one of those fun things that have come my way because of my blog. I love the adventure of it, and the opportunity to try different things. As it’s coming up to Christmas, I decided road test the Napoleon makeup lesson in Brisbane (which comes with $95 of [...]
Glow in the Dark Christmas Presents
It’s Christmas Week on the Blog! These glow in the dark presents are magical and Christmassy. They are simple (and cheap) to make and my kids thought they were the coolest things I’ve done. I played an indoor game using the presents and they are great for outdoor play too. Below is how I put [...]
Temporary Christmas Snow Globes
I’m going a bit wild with Christmas Table decorations at the moment. I like variety in the home, and with the table decorations, I can mix it up every couple of days. We’ve did the White Christmas in a Jar, and candles in jars, and now it’s time for something interactive and fun for [...]
White Christmas in a Jar
It’s Christmas Week on the Blog! A White Christmas is something I dream of experiencing, maybe one day, with my children. You know — the sleigh bells, and chestnuts on an open fire — that kind of thing. This year, I’m bringing a little of the dream into our Christmas in the form of table [...]
Melted Snowman Biscuits
It’s Christmas Week on the Blog! Guest post Hi I’m Katie and I blog at Mummy Daddy and Me makes Three. I am Mum to a little girl who will be two on Christmas Eve, and a bump who is due in February. My blog is all about our adventures as a family, mixed with [...]
Homemade Christmas Cards
It’s Christmas Week on the Blog! Guest post by Mel from Latte Mum This Christmas will be my first as a mum. I’ll get to watch my little one unwrap his first present, taste a little bit of Christmas pudding and maybe even pull on a bonbon. I can’t wait. But with his first birthday [...]
Christmas Decorating Interview with Tara Dennis
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas: the tree is up, we’ve started the advent calendar countdown, a wreath welcomes visitors at the door and the house is filled with music from two of my favourite Christmas music albums (Michael W Smith Christmastime and Christmas, The Special Edition (2011) by Michael Bublé). It’s the [...]