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All About Baby and Toddler Groups

While my first experience of toddler groups was pretty awful and involved my son injuring his eye and no one even checking we were OK, I gave it another go and eventually learnt the love them.

While it took a bit of persistence, I eventually made friends and, when the leader left somehow ended up running the group. I researched a lot online but couldn’t find very much advice and that’s why I’ve created an area of my blog dedicated to toddler groups.

As well as posts about running toddler groups and toddler group activities, there are also some posts about attending toddler groups. I remember how daunting it was walking into that hall full of mums and little ones and feeling like everyone had friends apart from me so I’ve written some advice on how to approach it.

Toddler Group Crafts – Activities for Groups of Toddlers

Written by Josie

toddler group crafts- fruit and vegetable printing

Toddler group crafts are great because the children get to express themselves and take something home at the end. I’ve included four ideas here but don’t forget, toddlers will have a great time with some crayons and colouring sheets too. Personally I prefer open ended activities where the children choose their own way of creating but […]

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Toddler Food Activities – Great for Home or Toddler Group

Written by Josie

Food Based Toddler Group Activities- Decorating Biscuits

Everyone knows, kids love to snack. I think that’s why toddler food activities always go down well with them. Here are my favourite food based toddler group activities from my 3 years running a group. Don’t forget, when planning food based activities for a toddler group, you’ll need to be able to provide allergen information […]

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Messy Play Toddler Group Activities

Written by Josie

Messy play toddler group activities - foam

I love a bit of messy play. It’s one of the few things I miss about having toddlers! Over the years  I ran lots of different messy play toddler group activities, which the children loved. Here are a selection of my favourites.  This post contains affiliate links (identified with a *) I earn a commisson […]

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How to Choose Which Toddler Group Activities to Run

Written by Josie

Planning toddler group activities - girl making banana men

When running a toddler group I was keen to run different activities for the children and over the years I tried loads of toddler group activities with varying degrees of success. Here’s my guide toddler group activities as well as what to look for and what to avoid. This post contains affiliate links (identified with […]

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