Pamper Your Super Mum With These Vouchers

Mums really are the unsung heroes of this world. This Mother’s Day, make her feel extra loved and appreciated with a super clever gift that’s sure to put a smile on her face.

Perfect for days when she just wants to kick her feet up and relax, these Love Vouchers include back massages, breakfast in bed, big bear cuddles with the kids and so much more! Not only will she appreciate these heartfelt gifts, but all these vouchers are also free and can be printed right from home.

Mum, Mummy, Mama, Nana or whatever special name she goes by… you can spoil her all year round with these incredible gifts that keep on giving.

Want Personalised Mother’s Day Gifts?

You’ll absolutely love our huge range of Personalised Mother’s Day Gifts. You can even create your special gift set by choosing different items with the same cute design. The best part? These are made for you in Australia and shipped super fast!

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Restart, Refresh and Refuel with these 5 Self Care Ideas Busy Mums Need

With a fresh New Year comes fresh opportunities to motivate ourselves for the year ahead. We’ve listed 5 Self Care Ideas to keep mums always feeling refreshed and recharged. For all their daily hard work, busy mums need and deserve to make time for self-love and pampering.

Squeeze in these 5 quick self-care ideas in your weekly or monthly plans, and you’ll feel oh so ah-mazing! You go, Mum! 

1. Morning Me Time

• Meditate
• Journal
• Sip on coffee or tea

2. Healthy Habits

• Drink more water
• Do some stretching or exercise that fits your lifestyle
• Get enough sleep

3. Skin Care You Deserve

• A quick shower is always a good idea
• Pamper yourself with good skincare products 
• Have a home spa date with yourself once in a while

4. Dressing Up Is Self-Care

• Wear your favourite outfit
• Pick an outfit colour that puts you in a good mood
• Accessorise if you must

5. Do Something You Love 

• Read a book or watch a movie or film
• Listen to music 
• Get into a hobby you’ve always wanted to try 

BONUS:

We asked mum and content creator, Stavey Westlow, about her self-care tips:

Self-Care #1  Sit and Read

Self-Care #2 Nail care is Self-Care

Got Self-Care Ideas To Share?

Post and tag us on Facebook and Instagram. Who knows? We might feature your amazing tips and hacks on our blog, too!

Looking For Some Clever Busy Mum Hacks?

Read about our Meal Planning Tips and Meal Prep Ideas. You’ll love our Clever Fridge Storage Hacks and our DIY Home Command Centre! These hacks will surely help you get things in order at home so you can squeeze in some proper me time.

Doing Some Organising For Yourself and Your Home?

The key to self-care is having enough time for yourself. Get everything organised at home, so you can make time for the things you love to do. We’ve got everything you need to get things in order. All kinds of labels you can think of from chalkboard labels to monogram labels and more! The best part? These are made for you in Australia and shipped super fast! You’re going to love them!

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Back to School Checklist

It’s almost back to school supplies shopping season again! Whether your little one is starting school for the first time or going back to school for a new school year, our Back To School Checklist takes the stress out of school preparation!

Scroll to the bottom of this page to download your free checklist. 

Don’t forget to check out our Back to School Shopping Tips:

1. Buy quality school essential items online. 

Everyone loves a bargain, but it’s not really saving if you have to keep spending small amounts over and over again each time something breaks. Choose good quality and buy them early so you can save more! Skip those long lines and shop online.

Get your kid’s school essentials from Bright Star Kids. We offer a 100% happiness guarantee. Our philosophy is that your kids’ stuff should last all year, so that you don’t have to keep replacing items that just don’t last. Signing up for promo newsletters is the perfect way to ensure you don’t miss out on any mid-year promotions. 

2. Label everything!

Heaps of kids head to school with the same pencil cases, lunch bags, stationery, and backpacks that it’s super easy for things to get mixed up or lost. Using name labels for lunch boxes, drink bottles, and even uniforms is the easiest way to make sure you say goodbye to lost property or germy mix-ups!

3. Personalise It!

Create super cute personalised kids name labels and stick them onto all of your kids’ belongings. Coordinating them with other school supplies with a cute design in their favourite colour is a nice touch, too! They’ll feel extra special when all of their things have their name on them.

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Need More Tips on How To Easily Prepare Your Kids for School?

Make sure to read about our School Morning Routine Tips and How To Make Friends in School. So your kids can easily transition back to school and have a great time. 

Looking for Cute and Fun Personalised School Supplies?

You’ll love our range of super cute school name labels. We have heaps of different name labels that can go on lunch boxes, drink bottles, pencil labels, socks, and so much more! They’re waterproof and stay stuck all year, so they last and last and last. We’ve also got a selection of iron on clothing labels that has saved thousands of mums from having to replace school clothes and uniform items. The best part? They’re Made to Order For You in Australia and shipped super fast. Mums and kids love them!

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5 End of  School Year Ideas To Make Awesome Memories

Celebrate school memories with these 5 End of School Year Ideas that will surely make it one for the books! The kids and teachers can’t wait until school’s over. But while it isn’t yet, parents and teachers can prepare these fun ideas. 

1. Book It!

Image Credits: (L) Instagram @queenofthebeehive | (R) Brit.co

Create a DIY memory book or end-of-school-year journal/scrapbook with your kids. School memories are fun to look back at when you’ve got cute photos of their milestones and achievements, be it big or small.

2.  Last Day Of School Sign 

If you’ve captured their first day in school, it’s a great idea to celebrate their last day officially with our last day of school sign! Just scroll at the end of this article to download your free printable. Let your kids colour them and take lots of fun photos! Print the photos and add them to their DIY memory book. It’s a great way to see how much has changed from Day 1 to the last day. 

3. Camp In

This classroom camping activity is a great idea for an end-of-school-year party. Teachers can organise it with the parents and share the fun with camping meals and games too! 

4. Teacher-ific Gifts 

Image Credits: Instagram @ourmessynest

Let teachers know how much they are appreciated with awesome personalised teacher gifts to thank them for the year! They’ll cherish them forever.

5. Buckets of Fun

Image Credits: (L) Instagram @bubsandreviews Personalised Swim Bags from Bright Star Kids | (R) Make Life Lovely

Let the kids celebrate the end of school and welcome the summer with an end-of-school year gift! Create a DIY summer bucket and decorate it with fun kids stickers in cute summer designs. You can also give them personalised swim bags filled with summer crafts, toys, and goodies to enjoy!

Looking For Fun, Personalised Gift Ideas?

Check out our blog article about the Easiest Teachers Gift Ever and Thank You Teacher Printable. They deserve only the best! Show them how much you appreciate them through personalised gifts you can buy or DIY. 

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18 Crazy Hair Day Ideas For Girls & Boys

Run out of crazy hair day ideas? Here are 18 styles for the next crazy hair day at school or kid-related events.

1. Unicorn

If your child loves unicorns, then why not be one for the day! Be inspired by this hairdo to come up with a unicorn look of your own.

2. Muffin On A Plate

What a cute idea to use the hair to form the food on a plate. Other ideas I’ve seen include donuts & Easter buns.

3. Mermaid Tail

Love this Ariel inspired mermaid tail!

4. Wired Braids

Put some wire in the hair through the braids to shape it into place. It might be hard to go to school with balloons in the hair!

5. Rainbow Dash Hair

An easy & colourful idea for the next crazy hair day. 

6. Elephant’s Trunk

Make an elephant clip from felt & attach it to the pony tail for your child if they are not into crazy hair styles!

7. Bee Hive

Make a bee’s hive from several plaits & yellow yarn. Use pipe cleaners to attach the bees to your child’s hair.

8. Man With Moustache

How funny is this man with long moustache! Sure to get a giggle from the classmates.

9. Cat Ears

Attach black pipe cleaners through the hair & shape them into ears. You can shape the ears into different types of animals too.

10. Spider’s Web

Make a spider’s web with lots of plats pinned around the head. Attach fake spiders to make an effective spider’s web.

11. Medusa

Easy to do in boys & girls hair. Attach rubber snakes to get a medusa look.

12. Surfer

Boys who are into lego & can have their hair shaped into a surf wave might love this.

13. Star Wars

How clever is this battle scene from Star Wars using lego!

14. Critters

Colour spray the hair to look like grass & add critters & bugs in them for a crazy garden look.

15. Googly Eyes

Add a bunch of googly eyes to upright gelled hair to create an alien look.

16. Lizard

What an amazing effort this mum made to get this lizard look!

17. Crazy Scientist

This hair reminds me of Albert Einstein. Perhaps your child might like to have their hair look like a crazy scientist.

18. Minecraft

You can tell this boy is a dedicated minecraft lover!

We hope you have been inspired by some of these ideas for the next crazy hair day at school! If you need some inspiration for Book Week, don’t miss our Book Week & Halloween Costume Ideas. 

If you’re looking to get organised this school year, you’ll love our huge range of super cute school supplies. Our name labels are waterproof & stay stuck all year & we’ve got school labels for all of those items that kids are likely to lose. Mums love our vast range of personalised labels for all of their kids’ stuff and our selection of iron on clothing labels has saved thousands of mums from having to replace school clothes & uniform items. If you’re looking to get organised this year, we’d love to help. Check out our name labels here & get up to 65% off.

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20 Activities For Toddlers At Home

Rainy days have you looking for indoor activities for toddlers? Here are 20 fun toddler activities to keep your little one entertained. Enjoy!

1. Squirt Painting

If you’re looking for toddler painting ideas, you can’t go past this messy & fun squirt painting project.

2. Line Tape City

If your toddler loves driving cars around & pretend play, build an easy line tape city using removable tape which won’t damage your walls or floor. Hours of fun!

3. Sensory Bag

There are so many sensory activities for toddlers, but this ocean sensory bag is one of our favourites! It’s super easy to make, and will keep little hands entertained for ages.

4. Paint Splat Art

Painting for kids is always so much fun, and this activity is no exception. Put blobs of paint on a sheet of paper, cover with cotton rounds & let them enjoy splatting the paint out with their toy hammer. 

5. Sight Word Building

If your toddler shows signs of recognising letters, sight word games like these educational building bricks are perfect for helping them to learn some basic words.

6. Colour Sorter

A great way to learn colours & use those fine motor skills. Simply recycle cardboard tubes, paint them the appropriate colour and buy a bag of pom poms to make an easy colour sorter. 

7. Cloud Paper Pillow

Another one of our favourite fine motor skills activities, these adorable clouds teach kids how to thread and make a great decoration for their play area or bedroom. 

8. Sticky Collage

Looking for art activities for kids to help them create their next masterpiece? Don’t look past this contact collage activity!

9. Busy Board

What little boy or girl wouldn’t love a homemade busy board full of buttons, flaps & dials?

10. Pasta Threading

A list of toddler activities wouldn’t be complete without pasta threading. A cheap and easy activity, stick some paper straws into play dough & let your toddler thread uncooked pasta on it.

11. Hammer Tees

Do you have a budding Bob the Builder? Fine motor activities where they can get stuck into their tool kit will be sure to be a hit.

12. Counting Activity

Does your toddler love counting games? We love this simple counting activity using cupcake patties, pom poms & tongs.

13. Alphabet Monster

I love how you can recycle things to make new toys! Use a wipes container & bottle lids to create an alphabet learning game for your toddler.

14. Cotton Ball Painting

Great for little hands & exploring texture & colour, painting for toddlers is heaps of fun with cotton balls.

15. Pool Noodle Mix N Match

Looking for fun things to do at home? This pool noodle mix ‘n’ match can provide hours of entertainment. 

16. Alphabet Puzzles

We love puzzles for kids, and this downloadable alphabet puzzle is just perfect for helping your little one learn their ABC’s.

17. Science Experiment

Science experiments for toddlers can be so much fun! Put white daisies in jars of coloured water & they’ll love watching the flowers change colour over the days. 

18. Reading Corner

Cubbies & nooks are fantastic for imaginative play as well as quiet corners. How beautiful is this reading corner? You could even add an extra special personalised touch with one of our personalised cushion covers! 

19. Grow A Plant

It’s amazing to watch things grow, and garden activities for kids offer a great learning experience. Using wet cotton balls, plant a bean seed in a jar & let your kids watch it grow over the coming days & weeks.

20. Marbleized Paper

This is one of the prettiest crafts for toddlers that we’ve seen! Finished artworks can be put on display, or used to make greeting cards or wrapping paper.

Need more craft activities to do with your little one? Make sure you check out our list of 100+ Crafts For Kids! 

Kids Educational Resources

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25 Pretend Play Ideas

Do you have kids that love to pretend play? Pretend playing is good for their imagination, and develops vital social, language, thinking and emotional skills.

Here are some great pretend play ideas for you to try.

1. Cardboard Cubby

Why not turn some old cardboard boxes into a cubby house, decked with windows & a postbox like this one!

2. Story Stones

If your child loves making stories up, why not paint some pictures on stones & see what great stories they can come up with!

3. Tape Town

So easy to recreate with removable tape, create a town complete with buildings and roads where your child can drive their cars around on. 

4. Superhero Town

Create a town complete with buildings for your superheros & villains to live and fight their battles.

5. Fairy Wings

Little girls love to pretend they are fairies! Make a set of wings out of cardboard & let her paint, glue, stick or colour in her wings.

6. Pet Hotel

Using a crate or box, fill them with mailing tubes to make a pet hotel where your child’s stuffed toys can live. Your child can be the hotel manager!

7. Shops

For the little one that loves to play shops, create any type of shop with cube shelves and props.

8. Kitchen

It’s amazing what you can transform out of a cardboard box like this kitchen stove! You can even build a whole kitchen complete with fridge, microwave, sink & shelves from cardboard boxes!

9. Ahoy!

Argh me hearties! It’d be time for some pirating fun!

10. School

Using an old shoe box, this school for lego figurines looks easy to whip up.

11. Construction

This construction scene looks like it will offer loads of fun for the budding builders!

12. Post Office

If you have a child that loves writing letters and sorting, a family post office station might be the perfect play station.

13. Fishing

Pretend playing isn’t only fun, it can teach little ones motor and letter recognition skills. Create an alphabet fishing game with a laundry basket, paper clip fishes & fishing rod with magnet.

14. Miniature Worlds

Miniature worlds are so much fun! There are so many scenes you can create, like this dinosaur one. Hours of fun for little ones.

15. ATM

Kids love to re-enact adult life, even simple things like going to the ATM.

16. Cash Register

Make this cash register for your imaginary shop and let your kids learn all about numbers and quantities.

17. Cooking

If you have a budding chef, let them (pretend to) cook dinner for their little friends.

18. Bed

Make this easy cardboard bed so that your child can put their doll or stuff toys to sleep. Great to nurture big brother or sister skills before the new arrival!

19. Turtle

Do you have a child that loves Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? This easy dress up might be what they need to fight their future battles.

20. TV

Is it every child’s dream to star in their own TV show or was it just mine?

21. Pony Land

Scenes can be so easily recreated with paint and old cardboard boxes like this My Little Pony rainbow scene.

22. Doctors & Patients

Using an old cereal box, turn it into a doctors kit. Your child will love pretending to be a doctor.

23. Mermaid Tails

What a cute idea to turn some figurines into mermaids with playdoh mermaid tails decorated with stones & gems.

24. Jetpack

Using old drink bottles to make a jetpack, your little one will fly from one adventure to the next.

25. Super Hero Cuffs

Have hours of fun with these super hero cuffs made from toilet rolls.

Looking for some fun indoor activities to do with your little ones? We love these Weaving Art Ideas for a rainy day activity!

Want to get organised for school? Check out our huge range of super cute school supplies! Our name labels for kids are waterproof & stay stuck all year. Each pack has all the school labels you’ll need, including pencil labels and clothing labels. If you’re looking to get organised this year, we’d love to help. Take a look at our name labels here & get up to 65% off!

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Chores For Kids By Age: Free Printable Infographic

Thinking of new activities to keep the kids entertained? Here’s one that’s both fun and helpful: Learning chores! 

Getting into new routines can be hard to get going, so check out this fun infographic of Chores for Kids By Age with a list of chores they can start learning and doing.

It is so important for kids to learn chores at an early age. With your help and guidance, they’ll be learning about responsibility in no time. It also helps them build confidence as they learn to be independent in achieving their tasks and goals. 

Below is our quick guide on what chores you can teach your kids. With the right tools, learning can always be a fun-tastic experience for everyone. Scroll down below to download and print this for free!

Create an achievable routine, so they know what chores they’re meant to be doing throughout the day. The easy visuals on our personalised toddler Chore Chart make it perfect for kids of all ages to follow.

Set their tasks with them at the start of the week, so they can easily get through everything. Encourage them to do their chores and reward them! A cute and fun way to do this is with a Rewards Chart and Reward Stickers. For every task they finish, give them a cute reward sticker that they can stick on their chart.

Seeing what they have to do and what reward they’ll get gives them the motivation to finish their tasks and achieve their goals. 

Got Your Own List of Chores For Kids By Age?

Share them with us. We’d love to know what chores your kids have been doing growing up. If you’ve got clever hacks and tips on how you got them to achieve this, post and tag us on Facebook and Instagram. Who knows? We might just feature your ideas on our blog!

Want To Teach Your Kids About Chores and Routines?

Read our article on Chores Made Easy Using Chore Charts and How to Use Rewards Charts. Chores and routines play a huge role in a child’s development. Make it easy and fun, so your kids will learn and enjoy it at the same time. 

Looking for Personalised Chores and Routine Charts?

You’ll love our Chores and Routine Charts that you can personalise with your kids’ names. There are heaps of super cute designs that they’ll love, too! Use our magnetic dry erase markers for your charts, and don’t forget to include some extra Reward Stickers. They’re perfect for our regular and dry erase charts. The best part? These are all made in Australia and shipped super fast! You’re going to love them! 

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Learn How To Draw A Dog with this step-by-step guide to help your kids make the cutest dog drawings ever. Simply scroll down below and download our free printable and let your kids enjoy!

Love This How To Draw A Dog Printable?

Your kids will enjoy drawing with this printable so much that they’ll want to learn more animal drawings. Head on over to our blog for more free printables that your kids will love.

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Teach your kids How To Draw A Dolphin with this super easy and fun free printable tutorial. Just simply scroll down and download our free printable and get your kids to follow the steps to draw this cute dolphin. drawing. 

Love This How To Draw A Dolphin Printable?

Your kids will enjoy drawing with this printable so much that they’ll want to learn more animal drawings. Head on over to our blog for more free printables that your kids will love.

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