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Here's a great way to spend a family day out or a nice way to grab yourself some 'me-time'.... It may be cold outside but Spring has sprung and the flowers are starting to boom at the Country Living Spring Fair. Why not celebrate the start of the new season with a trip by shopping for beautiful items for your ...

Magical, imaginative adventure holidays - where it's not about the doing, it's the being somebody! Today's guest post is provided by ATE  - The Active Training and Education Trust.  ATE is a not-for-profit Educational Trust, with a Governing Council of leaders in the world of education who believe in the value of summer camps. The Council makes sure that keeping children ...

I promised you an update on the Coombe Mill holiday (see part 1 here) and here it is... Day 3: Monday Munchkin got up in a much better mood this morning and was excited to be able to go and feed the animals again. She was even ready in time to have a quick play on the pirate ship play area before ...

It's half term and we decided that this year we would make the effort to go on holiday for the week instead of squandering it, so we booked a week with the lovely Fiona, Nick and family down at Coombe Mill in Cornwall.  I decided to keep a holiday diary and share it with you all over the week that ...

We’ve been talking a lot recently about getting the kids outside; about the risks, and perceived risks of allowing your children freedom and about encouraging children’s relationship with nature.  Today I want to point you all in the direction of a brilliant website to get kids outdoors and in touch with nature – and also to give you a wealth ...

Last week More than a Mum was invited to the National Trust’s Natural Childhood summit.  As you know we are keen on the great outdoors and getting children to connect with the natural environment and we are already supporters of the NTs 50 things campaign, so it was really exciting to be invited to the summit. The summit was built on ...

Yesterday we took Munchkin and BearCub on a new adventure and it turned out to be an adventure for us too! Ruth had been looking for 'Forest schools' in London and came across Nature Play.  So, along with a friend and her son we decided to give it a go.  As both South and North London are 'far' for us, being ...

        Today's post is a short one, with a really easy, free idea to keep kids entertained outside. It worked very nicely with children aged between 2 and 5 on this occasion, but could be equally suitable for any primary-aged child.  This activity lets children explore outside and develops their imagination.  It is a loosely structured activity which gives them ...

As you may know from our More than a Mum biographies I (Ruth) am a country girl in the big smoke and have blogged about the difference between urban and rural childhoods before. I grab every opportunity to get my little city slicker, Munchkin, playing in the great outdoors.  About a year ago, she said as I walked her over ...

Go on then, make us laugh with a clever caption for the seaside pic. Click here to visit the other funny pictures entered for #satcap this week. As this is a photo of outdoor fun, we've also linked up to Coombemill for country kids follow this badge to see the other country kids photos.