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Busy Busy Learning brings you the wonders of learning through stories, arts & crafts and play. Heavily inspired by books and the natural world you’ll find seasonal ideas including stories, activities and crafts to share with your children, grandchildren and classes.

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Mini Macrame Rainbows: How to Make Free Step by Step Instructions
Welcome to a little creating. This post will show you how to make a mini macramé rainbow using 5mm cord and embroidery thread. This is a lovely small craft project and you can choose your own rainbow colours to match your theme, nature table, room decor or handmade gift. In this project I have used…
New June 2026 Yoto Card Releases for UK, US, Australia, Canada and Europe
June is here and the weekly Yoto card drops are continuing with another month of new stories, music and family listening. In this post, I’ll be rounding up all the new Yoto card releases for June 2026, starting with the most recent drop first. I’ll keep updating this page throughout the month as new cards…
Exploring Nature with Children in July Resources
We follow a curriculum from @raisinglittleshoots called Exploring Nature with Children. Each week of the year has a different, seasonal theme to base your nature study around. This post is about Exploring Nature with Children in July. If you’d like to discover more search the hashtags #ENWC and #ExploringNatureWithChildren. Navigate July Ideas & Resources July 2026 Exploring Nature with Children…
Summer Solstice Celebrations – Waldorf Inspired Crafts
As a family we don’t really followed one path of childhood philosophy. We like to pick out the bits we enjoy from different philosophies when it comes to home life with our little one Floss, whether that be Montessori, Reggio, Waldorf or any other school of ideology. Summer Solstice is one of our favourite seasonal…

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Wow it’s been a busy year on the website for audio player information. Tonieboxes and Yoto Players have featured heavily. If you have any specific questions about audio players please feel free to drop me a message in the Facebook group.

A colorful flat lay featuring various children's books, audio players, and toy figures spread across a wooden surface.

Audio Players for Kids: Toniebox, Voxblock and Yoto Players Top Posts

Tonie Box or Yoto Player? This post will help you decide which audio player may be best for your child.
Yoto Club Changes: New Explorer, Collector and Collector Plus Review
Yoto Player or Yoto Mini Player? Yoto Comparison Review
Buy Yoto Player, Yoto Mini and Yoto Cards in Australia
Free Tonies Content for Toniebox Creative Tonies
Free Yoto Content for Yoto Player and Yoto Mini – Make Your Own Cards
Voxblock Review & 20% Off Discount Code: Is This the Best Screen-Free Audio Player for Kids?

Phonics Blog Series

Phonics Phases - Phase 1 - Phase 2- Phase 3 - Phase 4 - Phase 5 - Phase 6 - games - activities - ideas - satpin - tricky words - phoneme - grapheme - letters and sounds

Phonics is a real passion of mine and one of my favourite things to teach when I worked in early years. It is one part of a wide range of skills children need to be able to read and write. However, it comes with plenty of jargon and for many of us we were never taught it ourselves at school.

This series is ideal for parents looking to support their children with their phonics learning or planning to home school, but equally perfect for student teachers. Check out the series here.

Garden Series Posts

Are you looking for a little garden inspiration? Would you like your children to be able to explore the outdoors and enjoy learning through play? This is the series for you. Click on the titles below to head to that blog post