Adventuring through childhood... with love and dysfunction in tow
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
Everybody loves Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.Willy Wonka rocks! This is one of the kids favourite themed teas we’ve done & very simple to do, an upside down back to front teatime treat based around Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. A proper healthy dinner and pudding consisting of shepherds pie followed by sponge cake and filo strawberry tart…but all with… View Post
For this activity I went around the house taking close up photos of household things. I then showed the photos to the kids & asked them ‘what’s that?’ The one who identified the most items correctly got a prize. To put a spin on things you could set the kids the task of taking the photos themselves…
What can you do with an empty cheese ball caddy? How about making minion lunch pails… Here’s how I did it…
Today we headed to the beach, we took with us an old empty picture frame & sharpie marker pen… The beach was ‘Bracelet bay’ in The Mumbles, South Wales. Here’s what we did… Where’s Noah? If you would like to follow more of our daily frugal memory making activities & adventures during a childhood that’s fleeting you can find us… View Post
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