Five ways to keep your children entertained during a flight
Your family holiday should be full of fun and relaxation, so you’ll no doubt want to keep your children entertained on the way there to avoid boredom and tantrums. Here, Rachel Hall, Managing Director at online educational games resource Busy Things, gives us her top five ways to keep the kids occupied on your flight. Summer is finally here and you’re off on holiday! You’ve got days of fun-filled family time ahead of you, but you have to get through the flight first. All that time in one spot can be boring for excited children, so what can you do...
Summer Holiday Boredom Busters
Week three into the summer holidays and, no doubt, we have all heard 'i'm bored' at least a dozen times. Well, since discovering 'Cabo' we have spent most evenings playing cards until well-past bedtime. Cabo is a game of skill, concentration and memory..... The aim of the game is to finish on as few points as possible. Start with four cards each and arrange them into a square. You are only allowed to look at the front two cards - try and remember them. Each player takes it in turns picking a card from the pile. Each card has different...
Back to school....And breathe!
As the summer holidays draw to an end, some of us will be gutted and some delighted. Don't get me wrong, we all love sleeping late and having more time with our babies but there is always that flicker of yearning when we remember what peace sounds like. I don't know about you but there are only so many times I can hear 'I'm bored' or 'I'm hungry' before I want to scream and run for the hills (love you really kiddo)! So now it's time to think about getting ready to go back to school, or in some cases,...
Ideas for keeping your kids occupied during the Summer Holidays
Now that we are all into the first week of the long summer holidays, we’ve been wracking our brains for ways to entertain the children, particularly when trying to work at the same time! (this Blog is a little late being published and that tells you how distracted we've been!). At team GLR we have a variety of differently aged kids among us (8 in total!), and keeping them continuously entertained can sometimes be challenging/stressful. So, to help all our sanity, we’ve come up with a few tips to help you enjoy your summer without breaking the bank. RELAX These...
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Teacher ‘Thank You Gift’ ideas
As another School Year draws to a close, Great Little Rewards HQ have been thinking about gift ideas for the wonderful teachers who put up with look after our angelic little cherubs all day 😜. Conscious that yet another John Lewis voucher collection will start in our children’s school shortly, it got us thinking…. what do teachers really like to receive? So we’ve done a bit of research and here are our findings…. Home-made cards I for one am a total sucker for a home-made card. I have hundreds from my daughter for Mother’s Day, birthdays, Christmas etc. and absolutely...