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999 What’s Your Emergency? (Life Saving Activity for Kids)

27 Feb

**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS KETCHUP, NO ONE WAS HURT OR INJURED IN THE PROCESS OF THIS ACTIVITY** We decided to have a little role play fun & teach the kids how to call for help if ever they needed to. It was gory and fun and valuable lessons were learnt.’ Here’s what we did…

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St David’s Day / Welsh Themed Day

26 Feb

We LOVE Wales and being Welsh gives us a great opportunity to celebrate St David’s Day. We decided to embark on a Welsh themed day. Here’s what we did…

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St Patrick’s Day, An Irish Themed Day

25 Feb

We decided to celebrate St Patricks day by learning all about Ireland…. Here’s how we did it…. We used empty baby food jars to make our St Patricks Day treats. We simply filled with Rolos & Skittles (gold & rainbow) & topped with marshmallows (a cloud)…. You could replace the skittles with smarties & serve as a bedtime treat with… View Post

in Embrace Imagination

Worry Grubs

24 Feb

We decided to make some worry grubs in an attempt to take any worries away we may have. We used air dry clay wrapped with wool and a matchstick box. You could also use pebbles or small sticks. Here’s how we did it…

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Air Dry Clay Family Tree Totem Pole

24 Feb

We decided we were going to make our own natural totem pole in the forest… We took with us a pack of air dry clay (£3.50 in Hobby craft) to make a totem pole with all our family on it. We also took a pop up tent, flask of soup and some crusty bread, we used latex gloves from Poundland… View Post

in Outdoor Fun

Time Capsule Unearthing

24 Feb

We set out to the forest to unearth our time capsules that were buried 4 years ago. We took a pop up tent, flask of soup and some crusty bread. It took us nearly two hours to locate our capsule…oops 🙂 We also walked over logs, made dens and climbed trees. Here’s how we got on… We headed to the… View Post

Wizard of Oz Adventure

in Themed Days

Wizard of Oz Adventure

13 Feb

I decided that I wanted to do a Wizard of Oz themed birthday picnic in a crooked wood for Mila. I used as much as I could from around the house with the only expense being her cake which I had planned to be a simple white iced Christmas cake with a yellow brick road. Fortunately M&S had a beautiful… View Post

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