Boing at The Sherman Theatre

I was so excited to take Mr A to the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff, it was his first visit to the Sherman and certainly will not be his last. We almost didn't make it to the show in time, as it involved a very fast run up hill for the train, but we managed to catch it literally just in the nick of time. Luckily the Sherman is very close to Cathays station in Cardiff, only a few hundred meters and the building is pretty hard to miss with it's silver roof and inviting glass doors which had been drawn over with various cartoons and the words "family theatre" scrawled across it, we knew we were in the right place. Mr A being 3yrs old, is now the perfect age for shows such as Boing , which are fun, engaging and only 55 min's long. When I was growing up theatre was very much apart of my life as my parents often took us to shows and it's such a lovely experience and one I am keen to share with my little man. So what was the show like? Well in the word......

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Easy crafts for little hands

I cannot stress how important arts and crafts is for children and their emotional and physical well being. Toddlers learn a lot through art, crafts and messy play, it teaches us things about ourselves that we didn't know before, we can express our inner feelings in a why we wouldn't normally and children can learn about colours, numbers and co-ordination, as well as the satisfying act of making something, although often it's just about having fun. Mr A and I love sunny days but it's also great to have a nice cosy raining day inside where we can focus on things like painting, making play-doe, building dens and baking. Mr A's personal favourite is painting, he loves to mix colours and use the paint brushes, we love to do this together, I will draw the outline of a bus or a tree and he will have lots of fun colouring it in, recently though we have gone back to using finger paints as Mr A has discovered that putting it on your feet and slipping and sliding a......

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