Happy Candlemas. Happy Inbolc. Happy February. Snow gave us a perfect way to start the celebrations. Good excuse to get outside and create art. Snow maiden made by 14 year old. It is almost as tall as her. She’s holding bird seed for the little birds. I hope they find […]
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Winter turns to spring
I love this time of year. Here in the northern hemisphere, the days are noticeably getting longer. Everything is beginning to spring. Lambs in the fields. Snowdrops in the hedgerow. More light. Still muddy, but slowly, everything becomes easier. Today marks the mid point between the winter solstice and the […]
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Candlemas and Badgers
Sometimes two craft ideas collide. One is a sample to take into school for a Candlemas craft activity. The other idea uses felting. I started off using the classic tissue paper glued onto a jam jar. I used a battery tealight to test the effect of the light through the […]
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Celebrating the season with cake
So. I had three activities lined up to celebrate the halfway point of Winter. Hardly surprising that it was the edible one that caught the children’s imagination. The one we’ve done before. Youngest even rushed out to the hen house to collect the eggs we needed. There was talk of […]
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