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From the Deep… Beach Art

31 May

We headed to Rhossili beach with a rake & had lots of fun making dinosaur footprints, once finished we climbed back up the cliff in time to see the markings of our prehistoric beast on the shore before the tide washed over it! It was very effective and fun 🙂

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Duvet Day at The Beach

27 May

So with the lurgy being in the house for the past few days we decided to take our sickbed to the beach! After all fresh air is the best medicine of all… It worked a treat.

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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

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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

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Abandoned Lighthouse Adventure

12 Apr

Whiteford Lighthouse and Cwm Ivy Tor are located on the coast at Whiteford Point near Whiteford Sands, on the Gower peninsula, south Wales. The lighthouse is the only remaining cast iron lighthouse surrounded by the sea in the United Kingdom. It was built in 1865. The tower is 61ft high and made up of eight courses of cast iron plates…. View Post

Butterfly Hunting

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Butterfly Hunting

30 Mar

We decided to embark on our own butterfly hunt. We made butterflies to lay along our route and gathered up our nets, magnifying glass and a book to identify our discoveries. Our hunt took place at the beautiful Heddons Mouth in Devon – a beautiful walk through a wooded valley to an idyllic picturesque beach cove. I even managed to… View Post

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Picture Frame Fun

28 Feb

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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