When eldest was a toddler, I had a conversation about painting with one of the other mothers which made me think. We shared the same child minder. A wonderful lady who did amazing crafts and activities with the children in her care. Eldest used to come home clutching beautiful pieces […]
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So many i-deers..oh deer!
A bit of crafting news, at last. It is often said that less is more. Other times, not. When HomeCrafts kindly sent me a reindeer, I had enough ideas to paint many more heads. In my mind, I sketched out complicated patterns on it and contemplated different paint techniques. There […]
Read moreBooks and dens
My favourite activities are the ones where the children work as a team and initiate it all by themselves. Den making seems to lend to this enormously. I walked out into an area of the garden to find that two of them had raided my bamboo canes and garden twine. […]
Read moreLet’s fly a kite …. or three
We have a summer list of things that we would like to do this holiday. Everyone has written their own ideas down on the sheet. Only constraints were that the activity had to be possible and that everyone in the family could do it. There are some old favourites, but […]
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