Adventuring through childhood... with love and dysfunction in tow
We bought value sponge cakes for 58p each, some sweeties, a block of butter and some icing sugar…we already had food colouring in the cupboard. We made cake stands using a food tin topped with a circle of cardboard covered with a doily, we mixed butter with icing sugar to make the cake covering and icing sugar with water and… View Post
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…
After finding a carpet roll tube in a skip we decided that we wanted to make our own totem pole, so we set about drawing and painting it and then with some team work and effort we lugged it up a really big hill to stand it up in all it’s glory overlooking the valleys of South Wales… (We used… View Post
Full of the joys of spring and with a lovely blue sky overhead we decided we wanted to bring some colour to the trees… So we made some beautiful butterflies… Here’s how we did it.. We washed out some empty milk cartons. I then carefully cut the carton into strips and drew butterflies on them for the kids to carefully… View Post
With a love of Subway in tow we decided to head to the forest for a springtime picnic with a difference… We were going to have a baguette battle & compete in making our own deliciously filled baguettes. We had a few other activities on the agenda including duck feeding, fairy door building & searching for signs of spring, but… View Post
We decided we wanted to build some natural fairy houses so we set about gathering materials.. We built a frame using sticks & string.. And then we set about decorating the inside, we used pieces of stick which we tied string around to make our ladder. We pushed sticks into an apple to make a window frame for an apple… View Post
We love cardboard boxes, versatile, imaginative, sustainable, frugal, fun & mostly free…. boxes can become anything from dens to space rockets, camper vans to lost worlds… Here’s a selection of some of the fun we have had with boxes… We made an ice cream van… Russian dolls… A woodland obstacle course.. A Minecraft themed tea… A toddlers prehistoric lost world…… View Post
