It's #throwbackthursday! In an article published several years ago, Ross Mountney explains how to get started on the home educating journey. Find out how what materials you need and the best way to start your journey.

Try simple living, make green pea ice-cream, play a hosepipe horn, make a magical hag stone necklace, discover the fruitiest Swedish superfood! Plus lots more fun ideas to try out this weekend and beyond!

Whether you’re just starting your journey to plastic-free living or almost there, extra waste-cutting ideas are always useful. We asked you for your top tips for cutting out packaging this plastic free July

To celebrate Plastic Free July, we have a number of switches that you can make in your bathroom. Here, Christine McRitchie recommends her zero waste favourites.

Continuing our #plasticfreejuly coverage, one mum shares how she reduced plastic after having a baby. After watching the BBC series ‘The War On Plastics’, Hattie Jacobs and husband Ollie decided to reduce the waste produced during their son’s early years.

Make a fairytale treehouse, go plastic-free, weird history on your doorstep, summer meadow magic! Plus veggie picnic hacks and how to create incredible interactive giant chalk art!

Join us! Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities. Will you be part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single-use plastics?

Crazy mud play, refreshing herbal pineapple recipes, make a bike picnics, join a nation-wide art fest! Plus teach your family to play the guitar, make fruity jewellery and support for dads!

Have a magickal Solstice, a wild weekend, learn fern alchemy! Plus create wall-worthy self-portraits, join Insect Week

Inspire your children to help save the planet with a new book packed with blueprints for crazy inventions.