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in Beach· Christmas· Magical Adventures

An Outdoor Elf Adventure

6 Dec

A few days ago our Christmas elf arrived from the North Pole bringing with him the promise of a sprinkling of magic and make believe throughout the house, but who’d of thought that our elf would have such a huge desire to explore the outdoors during his stay!

in Christmas· Embrace Imagination· Indoor Fun· Themed Days

The Polar Express Movie Box Theatre

20 Dec

🎄🚂❄️✂️🎨 The elves made a Polar Express movie box theatre for the little ones to sit in and watch their Christmas movies…

in Christmas· Embrace Imagination· Magical Adventures· Outdoor Fun

Elf Arrival – Discovering Reindeer Poo

24 Nov

We decided to go on a magical festive adventure to see if we could find any signs of Christmas reindeer in the woods and ended up finding our very own elf! A few days before, I made some reindeer poop using play dough and glitter and hid it in my pocket along with a Christmas elf. This is how our elf… View Post

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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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To a child it’s a castle, a grandeur stately home, a cave deep in the jungle...
To a child it’s an adventure.... 💖
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