I love crafting with the children. No surprise there. I believe that encouraging creativity is just as important as, for example, learning your times tables. Being able to use either skill will be helpful in the future, but each skill needs to be practised otherwise it all becomes rusty. I’m […]
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Yeh!…Oh…. It's yellow.
Eight years ago, I was visiting a friend. This friend was in the middle of making over her garden. She was taking her small garden from a rather plain, flat garden to an altogether different place. There was decking, water features, stone clad raised beds and newly created slopes. It […]
Read moreFelting a hair tie
Yesterday, while we were waiting for the fleece to wash, I set up a felting activity for the girls. I knew that they might not resist sneaking out and squeezing the fleece to wash it. We used some of the rainbow roving that Grandma gave them. The girls each took […]
Read moreWashing the fleece
It was the last day of half term. The girls were so eager to wash the fleece from the weekend. We weren’t going to let a bit of rain put us off. So we put on boots and went outside. First we filled the old bath tub with warm water […]
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