Halloween is having a bit of a revival here this year as (thanks to the infernal YouTube phenomena that is Blippi!) Bene has really got into the idea and is very excited about being a skeleton while he’s out trick or treating tonight. I’ve been a bit forthright and told the big girls they can […]
Bostik Blogger Autumn Craft.
Autumn has tumbled upon us in a rush and far from mellow mists and fruitfulness, it has mostly brought bugs and snuffles and a general sense of “gaaaaaaah, bring back summer!” This did mean that I had the company of various of my children for the last two weeks which has many positives and some […]
Halloween 2013
We went, as we always do, to our lovely friends house for Halloween. This year was a little different; for the first time, Fran couldn’t join us as she was working – and being big enough to have a job means you are big enough to have to swallow being at work rather than trick […]
Making Poppies for Remembrance Day & other Autumn crafts.
We dipped into Remembrance Day crafts again today, ready for spending some time on World War work on Thursday and Friday. We’ve covered this a fair bit over the last two years and so it was easy to pick up the threads of previous work, especially as Fran has been doing WW1 recently too. We […]
Halloween 2012
The Halloween costumes the girls created were probably the best they had ever done – and one advantage for me was I’m now very much a credit card facilitator of the whole thin; I don’t have to make! Fran and Amelie both adapted an idea from Pinterest. Fran had 10 metres of black netting from […]
WedEd loveliness Halloween/Fairytale style.
WedEd played a blinder this week; this group home ed meeting has settled into something that seems to work really well now and I mostly feel like I pull my weight, which makes me feel better. Bene is (temporarily I suspect) not too high maintenance there, so I can do a couple of activities. Once […]
It's been a proper home ed week.
There has been lots going on here this week, even though I had a day out (more to come on that!) and we spent a day interviewing for new staff. As well as the geography day we did there has been lots of crafting of various sorts. Maddy, Josie and I have put together these […]
Autumn in Hama Beads… again :)
I’ve seen this idea pop up on Pinterest a few times and was desperate to have a go and see if it really was as easy as it looks. Seems like a great fun way to use up mixed up Hama Beads. Today we had the beads out to make a whole heap of pictures […]
Felted Remembrance Day Poppies
Last year we did a lovely art day on Remembrance Day and spent some time discussing the meaning of the day with the girls, reading an appropriate poem and marking the 2 minutes silence. It was a particularly poignant day for me last year, having so recently lost my own son and I found it […]
Fun Firework Craft (yes, late to the Bonfire Party again!)
My children spent the afternoon doing pre-school crafts. Yes, yes, I know. But the advantage of letting big kids do little kid craft is that they don’t mess it up and I don’t have to stand over them being all control freaky and wishing they’d do it properly. Besides, I had stuff left over 😆 […]
