The boys have been encouraged by school to create a picture of the night. We did this whilst on holiday at the seaside, combining it with a night adventure and midnight snacks! We took some photos and talked about the colours we could see in the night sky; how these were reflected on the water and…
Displaying Found Objects
In the education room at The Botanic Gardens there is a mobile of beautiful natural objects. We sourced our own mobile from eBay and used it on our recent seaside holiday to display some of our beach treasures. This is of course is only a temporary display and we are looking forward to creating other…
Miniature Fairy Book Making
Following the excitement of finding a fairy library in the woods, we woke the next morning to find that the fairies had left us some book making equipment to make our own books! The boys spent a long time working on their illustrations and text before we made the book itself. They then carefully folded…
A Fairy’s Library
I recently had the opportunity to attend a book making course at work. It was the most enjoyable two hours and I came away with a miniature book which I had made. That evening I bought book binding tape and found some mount board scraps online ready to create my own little books. On a…
Roald Dahl Poetry Box
S turned 7 this week. He enjoys Roald Dahl’s stories and so we made him a Dirty Beasts Poetry box… He also had a Roald Dahl themed party for a small group of friends. We hunted for Roald Dahl pictures hidden in the garden… Made coloured candies and chocolate truffles And ate Mr Twits’s beards,…
Exploring “A Handful of Quiet”
I have had the book “A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles” by Thich Nhat Hanh (ISBN 978-1-937006-21-1) for quite some time and it was only on our recent seaside holiday that we selected some special pebbles for the meditations. Each of the four pebbles represents a different image in nature; a flower a…
Dinosaur Poetry Box
Each year we make a poetry box for the boys. It contains a poem, often based on the theme of their birthday. This year A has requested a dinosaur themed birthday. Here is how we made the box. First we covered a blank matchbox using a dinosaur napkin with decoupage glue. On a piece of…
Spring Poetry Journal: “Daffodowndilly” and Our Daffodil Fairy
Each season we aim to learn a new poem and keep these in our poetry journal. We may explore the poem through art, nature and reciting throughout the season. Building on the success of the Acorn Fairy from the Autumn we introduced a Springtime Daffodil Fairy to explore the poem “Daffodowndilly” by A A Milne,…
Flower Fairies
Over the last year we have been making flower fairies from felt, fabric and wooden pegs and using them with our poetry journals. My sister has also been experimenting with some wire and bead based fairies and today we made some together. We started by covering some florists wire in masking tape to make the…
Using slate as a canvas
Grandad found some old pieces of roofing slate and thought we might like them. Using the Spring flowers in our garden on a wet and windy day, we made some Spring inspired pictures. The finished pieces, complete with a ribbon through one the of holes. S wanted to add a person to his, wishing Grandad…
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