We are getting ready for Easter! Are you ready? We wanted to make sweet smelling and silly place markers for our Easter lunch table! We ended up making Egg Heads! With these silly guys on the table Easter is guaranteed to be happy for everyone. While I was making some cupcakes for Easter I emptied…
When my son was younger he had an all time favorite toy – the STOMP ROCKET. If you are asking yourself what a STOMP ROCKET is, you have to try this kit by 4M. It is the perfect mix of upcycling and STEM. Essentially by stomping on the plastic bottle you create the force to…
Are you getting ready for a birthday party and feeling overwhelmed? Does your child love the Frozen movies? How about a Frozen themed birthday party with candy snowflakes? Sometimes putting together a birthday party can be overwhelming. Here you can find two easy ideas for your little one’s upcoming big day. The first thing we…
Have you ever used a pottery wheel? Over the Christmas holidays we tried out the new Mini Pottery Wheel by Make it Real! We had so much fun that we decided to use our mini pottery vases to celebrate Valentine’s Day – Love is in the air with Mini Pottery! The kit comes with great…
Christmas is almost here! We are preparing our Christmas table and needed some crafty DIY Christmas trees! I saw this method on Instagram and had to try it out. Do you have any special Christmas traditions? We have a small Christmas village which we are adding onto every year. These DIY Christmas trees seem like…
Now that the Halloween craziness has ended it is time to enjoy autumn colours. I decided to do a DIY Autumn gift wrapping dedicated to the cute little mushrooms that you see all over the place in this season. I hadn’t done a recycling project in a while so I decided it was time to…
I am excited to introduce the Summer Haven 2023 – English camp which will be held in Tuscany at the end of June. I have been organising FunLab events in English and summer camps for over 10 years. Over the years I have been asked by parents to organise a sleepover camp in English. The…
Are you trying to teach your children/students tricky words? If so, you know you need to think out side the box and use modern stimulating approaches to get your little ones to learn! What do I mean? If you are teaching tricky words (also know as sight words) to English as a second language students,…
Working at home or in class with beginner readers? Make sure you check out this post! I have been working with Jolly Phonics for years both in FunLab Workshop classes and as a trainer. One weak spot has always been that you had to teach the 42 sounds and 11 tricky words before you could…
Thinking outside the box is necessary for teaching English as a second language. It can’t all be about grammar books! This has been the driving force behind FunLab Workshop‘s approach to teaching English. What if you held English lessons in spaces which were traditionally not considered to be for children? What if you taught English…