Lets get Festive!

I'm very proudly displaying my home made crocheted Christmas wreath! Crochet is my other passion apart from children and gardening so I'm very happy with the cheerful lit up woolly welcome that everyone gets when they arrive! Note the purple door! Now I wonder what my favourite colour is.....

Home Grown Pumpkins

There is something uber satisfying about planting a couple of seeds and 6 or 7 months later having a few giants to deal with!

 It's SUCH fun carving a pumpkin and even if you buy one it's a brilliant messy activity with kids. Everyone can have a go at scooping out the flesh and seeds....

 Then we can all help to design a good scary face....
Ta Dah!!!!!

And there's still lots of pumpkin to use for yummy pumpkin soup, or pie, or risotto or curry....the possibilities are endless. Yum yum.

Yogurt pot Turtles

I saw on a website about how to make these cute turtles from tippy yogurt pots (fruit corners to everyone else!) So we had a go and I think they turned out really well. We extended the learning and read some books about turtles and find out where they live and what they like to eat. It's a good example of how any activity with children can always be an opportunity for wider learning and understanding. For example while we did this we talked about the colours of the paper, the sizes of the pieces and counting how many we needed. They also had the opportunity to practice fine motor skills through tearing the paper and picking up the little pieces. And the finished product was played with too!!

Bouncing is fun!

The mini trampoline is one of the best things we've got in the garden, it was a lucky find on freecycle and luckily 2 at once can have a go!

Testing the snow!

Sadly only a tiny bit of snow left on the table in the garden (where we tried to build a snowman at the weekend!) and small bits of ice around the grass. It was fun feeling how cold -and muddy it was and we had fun collecting bits of ice in our mini wheelbarrow! My oldest daughter is begging for more snow but who know if we will get more.....

Pretty cakes

As a WI member now for a while I have loved meeting new people as well as learning lots of new skills, especially arts and crafts such as jewellery making, paper crafts and of course baking. We did a session on piping icing which I have now done with the children lots of times. It's SUCH fun and anyone can make a cake look pretty as well as have a turn licking the scraper!!!