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in Local Exploring· Outdoor Fun

Stepping Back In Time At Tee Rex Golf

16 Sep

We have a dinosaur obsessed 5 year old in the house along with Mr FD who is a big fan of crazy golf. So when we were asked if we knew about the new Tee Rex Adventure Golf we had to go and take a peek for ourselves. And we were not disappointed!

in Indoor Fun· Themed Bath· Themed Days

Prehistoric Themed Bath Time

21 Aug

Everyone loves a good old scrub up or soak in the bath but it’s also the perfect time for a whole load of themed fun…… and today our scrub up took us back into prehistoric times..

in Easter· Embrace Imagination· Food

Chocolate Dinosaurs Egg Filled Nest

11 Mar

Everybody loves dinosaurs & everybody likes chocolate rice crispy cakes… and they’re even better when put together! We have some dinosaurs that visit our house and cause lovable havoc whilst the kids sleep and sometimes you never know what you’re going to wake up to find….sometimes their nocturnal antics are truly yummy 🙂 

in Beach

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 🙂

in Autumn· Embrace Imagination

Dinosaurs Causing Havoc

22 May

If you haven’t stumbled upon it already you really must check out Dinovember. I’m telling you, we all need a little bit of it in our lives, the concept is to feed the kids with a little imagination with dinosaurs, while they sleep you place the dinosaurs for them to discover when they awake, it’s a little bit of magic… 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 Embrace Imagination

Prehistoric Ice Age Meltdown Challenge

5 Apr

We decided we were going to make our own prehistoric ice age scene and attempt to save our prehistoric friends from the big freeze. We had lots of fun and messy play with a little scientific education thrown in… Here’s how we got on.

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🦇 The man did good!👏 Yesterday Andy finished 🦇 The man did good!👏
Yesterday Andy finished everything needed to make the bats comfortable. 
We have oodles of bats flying around the churchyard but after a few seasons of bat surveys it was established we don’t actually have bats with if the church 👌 this is pleasing for us as it means that we get the enjoyment of watch them on a summers evening with the knowledge that there are none in residence. 
Although it was established we don’t have resident bats, roosts or nurseries we still had to do what we could to accomplish them should they wish to take up residence in the church. 
As part of this process we have...
🦇Turned a dilapidated underground furnace room into a bat cave with entrance points, wall hangers and crevices.
🦇 Built a substantial ‘Battic’ in the ceiling in the vestry...a false ceiling was installed for this.
🦇 The children moulded and helped install bat tiles for the roof using a mallet and sheet lead method. 
🦇 Raised the ridge tiles on the vestry roof as entrance points to the ‘Battic’. 

For a building that doesn’t have any resident bats they sure will be comfy should they move in. 

🦇 Bats are a protected species and obtaining bat licenses to permit you to build without endangering them, destroying or disturbing existing or potential habitat in the U.K. is an extremely important (and lengthily) process.

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