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in Food· Frozen

‘Frozen’ Glacier Edible Mint Ice Castle

25 Apr

This yummy activity requires a substantial amount of imagination, lol, we had a vision of an amazing castle of ice shards…. Instead this is how it turned out. We may have bitten off more than we could chew but the girls loved making it and the fun was not only in the trying but also in the devouring afterwards 🙂… View Post

in Beach· Embrace Imagination

Fossil Hunting & Dinosaur Egg Adventure

22 Apr

We decided to embark on a fossil excavating day at the beach. I made this magical by making a giant egg with plaster of Paris & a balloon for the kids to stumble upon. We gathered together some excavating tools, a bucket containing a sieve, a paintbrush, some hammers and chisels and various tools for scraping, small paintbrushes, sticks and… View Post

in Beach· Embrace Imagination

The Thinking Bottle

21 Apr

We headed to the beach to clear our heads and breathe in some sea air, whilst there we stumbled upon Elfina (our Christmas visiting elf) and a Thinking Bottle sent to us from the North Pole by the ocean fairies wave express… Our very special bottle contains a thousand sparkles and twinkles from a million happy times. We shook it… View Post

in Themed Days

Gruffalo Themed Day

16 Apr

We love The Gruffalo! So we decided to have our own Gruffalo themed day. 

in Themed Days

Italian Themed Day

16 Apr

We wanted to have some fun learning some basics about Italy so decided on an Italian themed day.. Here’s what we did.. We painted flags.. We looked at famous Italian paintings and tried to recreate them. We looked at Italian landmarks and tried to build them… Our leaning tower of Pisa We tried our hand at pasta art We bought… View Post

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French Themed Day

16 Apr

We decided to learn a little about France and French culture in a fun themed day. Here’s what we did…

in Embrace Imagination· Indoor Fun

Indoor Campout

16 Apr

We decided we wanted to go camping but didn’t fancy pitching up in the rain so we had an indoor campout instead.. Here’s what we did…

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