Star sandwiches

Just to make meal times a bit more exciting I have used shape cutters. Lakeland do a great big box for just under £10 they have all the letters, numbers, animal, holiday shapes that you can think of . They also have some good ideas of other uses for the cutters including art and craft as well as other food items .

Puzzled?

Washing machine tablet bags make great puzzle piece storage. Saves me doing my own puzzle before the children !

Nature's patterns

It's surpising what you can find when you look hard enough. This stone was on the side of our drive. It has some interesting patterns in it . The girls enjoyed looking at and feeling it . Em recreated the swirls in her colouring book.

fun generator

http://www.nhs.uk/Change4Life/Pages/fun-generator.aspx

Although the summer holidays are nearly at an end, this fun generator is handy if your looking for great way to entertain your kids.
 There are some other good, active, activities on this website . I like the idea of having activity cards so the children can choose what they  would like to do from the pictures. When I was teaching I used to have a "choosing  board " with pictures of writing, reading, puzzles etc on there to save repeating myself when the pupils came and asked "what can I do next". infact I may have just inspired myself to make one for home!


http://www.nhs.uk/Change4Life/Pages/fun-generator.aspx



Lolly sticks

I found some heart and flower shaped lolly sticks for a few pounds in Dunelm, not sure if I'm allowed to say that, but I just did. Next time I will use recycled ones from ice lollys if they survive.
 Even my youngest daughter enjoyed colouring and putting stickers on these, I let my eldest have some glue and sequins. Great fun had by all .

Obstacle race / assault course

To make playing outside more interesting , we started an obstacle race using the see saw, trampoline and slide. This ended up being more of an assault course as the girls added various items from around the garden to it. Also included were some chairs to crawl under, the ladder to climb up and some balls to run up to and throw.

sticklebricks momentos.

We've got the sticklebricks out this morning. The little one (20 months) is enjoying tipping them in and out of the box. The oldest is busy making all sorts of exciting things. so far we have made a car, camera ,binoculars and a theatre. She now wants to make a birthday cake for her Aunty's birthday but there aren't enough sticklebricks. The idea of breaking up the models hasn't gone down very well so we are going to take photos of them and then take them apart and then we have enough to make the cake .

The theatre (with stage curtains)