The bedtime routine is one of my favourite times of day. That’s not because the ends in sight and the kids are finally off to the land of nod, meaning I can put my feet up at last with a hot cuppa. No I love it because everything else stops for 30 minutes and it’s just time with my girls.
As a busy mum I’m juggling work, kids and trying to maintaining a certain level of cleanliness in the home. I try and spend as much quality time with my girl as I can but with so much going on I find myself easily distracted.
This week BookTrust are once again running their Bath, Book and Bedtime campaign. They know that lack of sleep is one of the hardest parts of being a parent of young children; getting them to sleep is one of the biggest challenges as we all know. 
Their solution is a simple three step routine that includes a little bedtime reading to encourage a good night sleep. Not only is it a lovely time to bond with your children it really calms them down and gets them ready to head off to bed.
I have read to the girls from such a young age it would feel really strange not reading with the daily. Even as my girls begin to read more independently our bedtime routine still remains so important to us all.
We often take our favourite stories one step further; either acting out scenes or even creating fun little puppets we can use with the story.
The girls love crafting so if we have a quiet afternoon it’s always great to think ahead to our bed time story and create some fun props we can use along side the story. I have no complaints when it comes to bed time as the girls can’t wait to use our props.
The Bath, Book and Bedtime campaign is such a lovely way to encourage an smooth bed time. I also have an amazing bundle of goodies for you guys to win to help your own bed time routine!
The fab goodie bag includes:
1x Pippa Pig Book
1x Peppa Pig Toothbrush
1x Peppa Pig Toothpaste
1x Peppa Bubble Bath
1x Bath, Book, Bed booklet
2x Best Bedtime Books
Bath, Book & Bedtime With BookTrust
the gruffalo
I don’t have any children but would love to win this prize to donate to charity, to go to Romania.
Oliver Jeffers ‘To Catch A Star!’
Topsy And Tim in the Gym
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
My grandson loves Giraffe’s can’t dance.
the smartest giant in town
oh we love peace at last (book). We read it nearly every night. I know all the words!!!
We are stuck on Beauty and the Beast at the moment, not exactly a bedtime story. But it appears to do the trick.
My Granddaughter loves giraffes can’t dance
Any Peppa Pig book is good in our house. Does the trick every time x
Winnie the pooh
The Gruffalo is a favourite in our house at the moment.
Room on the Broom is our favourite at the minute.
We love Who’s There ? Beware by Patricia Hegarty
At the minute it is I Love You This Much
At the minute it is I Love You This Much or the Gruffalo
I like the original Winnie the Pooh stories by A A Milne. 🙂
we like the three little pigs
Guess how much I love you. My young man loves Nut Brown Hare. It is lovely and melts my heart when he tells me he loves me to the moon and back.
My little girl is book mad at the minute we are enjoying The Lady Heard. Peppa Pig is a massive fab too 🙂
The Gruffalo x
At the moment we are reading Jungle Book
we love igglepiggle lost his blanket
The smartest giant in town
mervyn the mouse
My daughter would love this
Cat In The Hat books
little red riding hood and other fairy tales
Goldilocks and the three bears is always a favourite of mine and my granddaughter.
A Squash and a Squeeze
The Owl and the Pussycat seems to be the favourite here at the moment!
My Grandson loves Winnie The Witch – Winnie Flies Again
The Gruffalo.
My daughters favourite story has to be Elmer the Elephant! She loves all the colours as well as the story!
We really love the Stick man
My granddaughter loves anything by Julia donaldson, especially The Gruffalo, and also loves The Tale of Peter Rabbit,
To be truthful I make up a story for my grandson usually it’s about the fairies that live in the house at the bottom of the garden and the woman in the shed with a bone through her nose that tells me everything that he’s done in the garden that day, there’s lots of oohs and aah’s .. it’s our time and we love our story telling x
the Enchanted Forest , my daughter used to love it – thanks for the chance
The Gruffalo!
The Gruffalo. The grandKid’s love it
Grandson loves any Thomas the Tank books
My son love the hungry caterpillar
we read a book called micheal the monkey
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is the current favourite story.
I love the Gruffalo
My son and I love supertato.
My family love The Gruffalo
my niece likes Cat In The Hat books
The Jolly Olly Octopus. Think I know the words off by heart, have read it so many times!
Peace at Last by Jill Murphy has always been our fav.
The Gruffalo, such a wonderful book for the children
My boys loved Julia Donaldson books such as the smartest giant in town, now my nieces and nephews love these xx
room on the broom
Winnie the Pooh
the tiger who came to tea—a family favourite
George’s Marvelous medicine.
My daughter loves What The Ladybird Heard
We love The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson
I like to read my daughter “the Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstien before bed x
Winnie The Pooh
My son likes Zog 🙂
The Gruffalo’s Child is my daughter’s favourite bedtime story.
My daughter loves meg and mog stories at bed
At the moment my daughter loves Tootles the Taxi which used to by my son’s favourite book 9 years ago
We like a bit of Cinderella
Mr Bump at this given time
My granddaughter loves the gruffalo but she’s also a massive peppa pig fan so she would love this
The Gruffalo
Supertato! 🙂
Guess how much I love you
Charlie chick, is my little girl favourite bedtime story. We have to read it every night at least twice
The stickman
The BFG
We love reading the Disney classics, I had a massive book filled with them as a child which I have no given to my daughter and she loves them, we read a different one everyday
My children love a book called Under the Bed by Paul Bright x
Each peach pear plum
We have a book called Bedtime Stories for Girls, with several short stories in. My little girl loves choosing a different one each night. They are all such lovely stories.
That’s not my Unicorn
My daughter Sheriah 5 loves the gruffalo
I udderly love you is a fabulous book! Other firm favourites include Charlie cooks favourite book and pepp a pig train
We love to read The Gruffalo, my little boy loves when I read it every night to him x
Winnie the Pooh
Peter Rabbit books
Oh fave bedtime story has to be little red riding hood, the classics are the fave in my family
Vincent the Vain by Sam Lloyd
Room on the broom 🙂
The gingerbread man
Guess How Much I Love You.
The Gruffalo x x x