Learning through play

Easy home activities

Village Voices bloggers offer their best how-to ideas to make learning and play a cinch to do at home.

Kids and blogs

Social media know-how

If your kids are interested in blogs and social media, here's what you need to know so they can stay safe (and have fun).

Choose your baby's sex

Boy or girl?

Kylie Matthews explores the research on Shettles, Whelan, Diet and Douching preconception methods to select the gender of your baby. Do you believe in choosing a baby's sex?

Banishing arsenic hour

Practical tips

Letitia Rowlands explains how to avoid the end-of-day meltdowns which make evening meals more screamtime than dreamtime.

How we became parents

Nathan and Dean

One phone call turned this couple into parents of two brothers. Read their amazing story of their instant family.

Kidspot Kitchen

Things To Do

Kidspot Kitchen
- Christmas trifle
  
  The dessert that just screams Christmas - nostalgia on a plate! more
- Gingerbread house
  
  All the fun of a gingerbread house with no baking required! more
- Mince pie pops
  
  Yummy mince pies in cake-pop form. The perfect Christmas treat! more
Things To Do
- Beachy crafts
  
  10 beachy crafts to have fun with on summery days in the sun. more
- Colour Christmas
  
  Print out these free Christmas colouring in activities! more
- DIY puff paint
  
  Fluffy, fun puff paint you can make at home - the kids will love it! more