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Elf setups with spilled flour, toilet paper and a tiny breakfast, captioned “Do you dread the elf month? Keep the magic. Lose the nightly faff.”

Love the Elf, Hate the Setup? Easy Elf Ideas Th...

Love the elf but dread the nightly setup? Easy elf ideas for a calmer December, plus a printable elf advent for 7-9 years that you set up once and enjoy...

Love the Elf, Hate the Setup? Easy Elf Ideas Th...

Love the elf but dread the nightly setup? Easy elf ideas for a calmer December, plus a printable elf advent for 7-9 years that you set up once and enjoy...

An eighth-birthday breakfast table with pancakes, birthday cards, a turquoise number-eight balloon and a wrapped present.

Birthday Surprise Ideas for an 8-Year-Old: Make...

Birthday surprise ideas for an 8-year-old at home: a favourite breakfast, wrapped clues and a gift hunt that makes them feel clever.

Birthday Surprise Ideas for an 8-Year-Old: Make...

Birthday surprise ideas for an 8-year-old at home: a favourite breakfast, wrapped clues and a gift hunt that makes them feel clever.

Birthday present and clue card with the words “They know what they’re getting… but they weren’t expecting to have to hunt for it!”

When They Already Know Exactly What They're Get...

When children know exactly which birthday gifts are coming, the mystery can disappear. Here’s how a gift hunt brings some of that magic back.

When They Already Know Exactly What They're Get...

When children know exactly which birthday gifts are coming, the mystery can disappear. Here’s how a gift hunt brings some of that magic back.

a photo of a kitchen table with a birthday treasure hunt plan written including a wrapped gift and a map sketch

How to Write Your Own Gift Hunt at Home

Want to create your own gift hunt? Estelle shares how she plans the story, clues, hiding places and final reveal.

How to Write Your Own Gift Hunt at Home

Want to create your own gift hunt? Estelle shares how she plans the story, clues, hiding places and final reveal.

Open suitcase packed for a family hotel stay with small wrapped birthday presents and a handwritten Happy Birthday card

Hotel Birthday Over Half-Term? How to Make It S...

Birthday falling during October half-term while you're away? Here's how to turn a hotel room into a birthday adventure, from my own family's trips.    

Hotel Birthday Over Half-Term? How to Make It S...

Birthday falling during October half-term while you're away? Here's how to turn a hotel room into a birthday adventure, from my own family's trips.    

An open suitcase in a hotel room holds Halloween clue cards, sweets, a purple witch hat and a pumpkin trick-or-treat bucket.

Halloween Away From Home: A Trick or Treat Hunt...

A printable Halloween scavenger hunt for a hotel room or holiday home. Ideas for Halloween away from home, plus which clues work in a hotel.

Halloween Away From Home: A Trick or Treat Hunt...

A printable Halloween scavenger hunt for a hotel room or holiday home. Ideas for Halloween away from home, plus which clues work in a hotel.