S received a new sketch book from school this week. He has been exploring various drawings using colouring crayons and watercolours over the holidays but found he was having trouble with his drawing of a horse. We had a chat about it and then looked at the painting of “Whistlejacket” which hangs in the National…
Felted Pom Pom Ball Decorations
This week we are thinking about taking down the Christmas decorations. It has been a magical Christmas full of the boys’ new creations as well as a few old favourites. To fill the emptiness I spent the afternoon creating some colourful felted pom pom ball decorations using some left over felted balls that I used to…
Exploring “Snow in th Garden” by Shirley Hughes
We were very excited to receive “Snow in the Garden” by Shirley Hughes (ISBN 978-1406384482) from the Winter Fairies this Advent. Here are some pictures of us enjoying the book. No snow yet here – but we can hope!
Father Christmas at The Lyric
Three years ago we went to see a production of Raymond Brigg’s “Father Christmas” at the Lyric Theatre in London. The boys, then 4 and 2 loved it and spent a happy time replaying what they had seen at home. This year we went back and it was just a magical and exciting as the…
Winter Solstice Family Time
The Winter Solstice is one of my favourite family times. We read lovely books… And decorate the trees in our garden with delights for the birds and creatures we share it with. Whilst we wait for darkness to fall we make a special pudding – a bit like a Christmas pudding filled with delicious fruit…
A Shadow Puppet Christmas Story
When I was young my Grandad, Dad and other members of their family wrote and performed a puppet show at Christmas time. Now we have our own children we have been exploring the old puppets and trying out some new ideas too. This year we have been exploring shadow puppets. The boys used some existing…
Candle Making
Each year we try to make a little present for the people who are special in the boys’ lives and as a thank you for the love and support they receive. This year we made some beautiful beeswax candles. Here’s how we did it. We measured the wick about a cm longer than the wax….
Thanksgiving Pumpkins
As part of our Autumn celebrations we created a thanksgiving pumpkin. We decorated it with heart shapes, after scooping out the middle and then wrote things that we were thankful for on the outside using a sharpie pen. Our array of pumpkins.
Happy Autumn Days
As our half term holidays draw to a close we have enjoyed some lovely days crafting, sharing books, creating stories and poems and feasting. Here are some of our highlights:)
Autumn Poem Lanterns
On a damp, cool Autumn day we snuggled together to read some of Shirley Hughes Autumn poems taken from one of our favourite books; “Out and About A First Book of Poems” (ISBN 978-1-4063-7242-7). The boys then created their own Autumn poems and we recorded them on some of the lantern paper we used to…
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