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Your weekend starts here.
Happy Saturday Dads!
When you finally take a look back at baby photos that, at the time, prompted you to google baby modelling agencies.
Link here.
Coming up this week…
🥇 Learning tip | Letter recognition
🎾 Activity of the week | Bug art
🍽️ Recipe of the week | Coconut fruit ice lollies
💻 Hack of the week | Tote bag walker
⭐ How the stars do it | Helen Skelton is giving up caring
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Thanks for reading, and enjoy that beer when it finally comes.
Fred @
(a fellow dad of 2)
If you have a good day with the kids, you cannot have a good night with them.
It’s science.
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🥇 Learning tip
To help your kids improve their letter recognition, bring a little fun to the challenge with this creative activity.
Link here.
🎾 Activity of the week
It turns out you don’t have to be the next Damien Hirst to help your child produce their next fridge-ready masterpiece.
Link here.
🍽️ Recipe of the week
Just because the sun ain’t here doesn’t mean the kids won’t be asking for ice cream on the daily very soon.
Recipe: COCONUT FRUIT ICE LOLLIES
🍓🫐 Chopped fruit
🥥 Coconut water
Instructions:
Chop your fruit and fill the ice-lolly moulds, before pouring in your coconut water. Place in the freezer for at least a few hours before serving.
Full recipe here.
💻 Hack of the week
Break your back no more with this innovative use of the random collection of Tote bags you got given at yet another marketing conference.
Link here.
⭐ How the stars do it
After some at-home Arts & Crafts Helen Skelton has been left pondering the speed at which your toddler can go from sweet and cuddly to the newest member of the Blue Man Group.
Link here.
Upcoming dates that it might be worth having up your sleeve:
Global Day of Parents | Today; Tell your kids…see if they care.
World Environment Day | Wed 5th June; What better moment to teach your children about the environment. Give them £5 to donate towards planting a tree with the National Trust.
That’s it for this week folks.
Thanks again for reading, as always we leave you with one HILARIOUS joke to share with the family.
What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common?
They both have the same middle name
source: @reddit
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