Our top five A Girl For All Time stocking fillers
For a little bit of Christmas morning inspiration, we’ve created a list of our top five favourite stocking fillers from our collections.
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Family Christmas traditions: Stir-Up Sunday
This Sunday (24th November) marks one of my favourite Christmas family traditions, Stir-Up Sunday, or Christmas pudding making day! Learn all about this English tradition and how your family can celebrate...
Support small businesses, shop early this Christmas!
As we draw a crazy year to a close make sure to support your favourite small businesses this Christmas by planning your family's gifts early.
It’s spooky season! Learn all about the history of Halloween with A Girl For All Time
Celebrate Halloween and learn about it's history with A Girl For All Time and your family!
Throw a Georgian tea party with your family and A Girl For All Time!
Learn about Georgian traditions and throw a tea party with your family and
International Day of the Girl - giving girls' voices a platform to tell their stories
Celebrate International Day of the Girl with A Girl For All Time
International Day of the Girl is this Sunday (11th) and we can’t wait to celebrate it. Originating from the Fourth World Conference on Women, this day highlights the gender equality struggles faced by girls around the world.
The theme for this year’s campaign launched by UNICEF is ‘My Voice, Our Equal Future’. It focuses on empowering the voices of young girls, providing a platform for them to tell their own stories. Check out Fatoumata and Ide’s stories which highlight the importance of education for all girls. Something we love at A Girl For All Time.
Pink is the official color of UNICEF's International Day of the Girl - so why not hold a pink party to celebrate International Day of the Girl? Wear your favourite pink clothing or try making these easy DIY party streamers. Hang up banners with ‘Day of the Girl’, ‘My Voice’ or ‘Girl Takeover’.
You can even get baking with these super easy strawberry bottom cupcakes.
Ingredients:
- 125g butter (softened)
- 125g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 125g self-raising flour
- 12 large strawberries
Method:
- Heat oven to 180 C or 356 F.
- Place the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl and stir together.
- Stir in eggs and vanilla extract.
- Gently fold in the flour.
- Cut the stems off the strawberries and place each strawberry at the bottom of each cupcake case.
- Fill the cupcake case ¾ full on top of the strawberries.
- Bake in the oven 12 minutes or until golden on top.
- Top with strawberry buttercream icing- check out this easy recipe.
For more information about International Day of the Girl, the struggles adolescent girls face worldwide and what you can do for help check out UNICEF’s website or these five things you can do to celebrate.
Celebrate the most important member of your family with A Girl For All Time pets!
Learn all about the A Girl For All Time pets, our own family dog, Oreo, and try some animal crafts to recreate your dolls furry friend.
We love pets at A Girl For All Time! Each of our gorgeous dolls has her very own furry friend. These cute companions have seen our girls through everything, from Shakes and Elinor’s scary move to the countryside, to Amelia's and Ophelia’s tea parties and Lydia’s cold winter walks with her horse.
I wanted each character to have her own special friend, just as my own children had growing up with our border collie, Oreo, He loves herding up anything and everything, taking loooong walks, barking at thin air and generally being an adorable nuisance.
We've created a Dog Origami Challenge to try with your family... check out our Instagram for more exclusive Oreo photos this week.
Re-create your favourite pet with our easy origami craft!
Stage 1: Use one sheet of origami paper or trim a sheet of paper to create a square. You can use a small one if you want to create a doll sized origami pet, too!
Stage 2 Fold the sheet in half corner to corner.
Stage 3: Fold down the two corners of the longest edge to make the ears.
Stage 4: Fold the remaining point of the triangle up to make a nose.
Step 5: colour in the upfolded tip of the nose and add the eyes.
Step 6: Get creative!
Try a range of colours or even get some glitter involved if you are feeling creative.
Check out the 'PLAY' section of our website for more crafts, quizzes, learning and fun!
Check out the 'PLAY' section of our website for more crafts, quizzes, learning and fun!
A Conversation with our founder about diversity and Your Modern Girl and Boy range.
This week we have a chat with Frances, founder of A Girl for All time dolls, about the importance of diversity in educational play. Come behind the scenes to learn about the creation of Bex, Max, Maya and Nisha and Frances’ plans for celebrating diversity and world cultures in Your Modern Girl and Boy range
Maya is home schooling and missing her best friend, Nisha...
Dear Diary…
We’ve all been moved to home-schooling. I take all my lessons online and sometimes talk to my teachers on the computer. I’m trying really hard to keep up with my schoolwork because I know it’s important, but sometimes being at home is distracting. Either way, I’m going to try my best. Mum and Dad are both working from home and they try and help me with homework as much as they can. We have competitions to see who can solve different maths equations the fastest. They’re doing pretty good, but most of the time I beat them. Mum says its just because she hasn’t done maths in a while, but Dad says I’ve got the brains in the family. Maybe one day I’ll become a mathematician…
We’re also trying to learn a new word a day. Today the word was ‘astounding’ which basically means something is really impressive.
Its been really strange not seeing Nisha every day. I really miss her. I know I’ll see her one day but it's still really rubbishnot being able to see my friends like I would at school. But on the bright side I’m teaching myself new skills which I never thought I could do. I’ve practiced my skateboarding almost everyday, which I think is pretty astounding (I hope I used that right!).
I’ll have to call her tonight and tell her that…
Until next time,
How sharing your stories can help your children's mental health
Our family history goes beyond the names and dates we find out our tree, it makes us who we are. It’s about people with whom we can form deep connections.