Campfire pizza is a fail safe menu choice when taking my trio to eat in the great outdoors! They are very simple to make, quick to cook, and filling to eat. My trio could very easily make these themselves, but unusually I was left to it today as they headed off to investigate what treasures the beach held 🙂 …
The Cotswold Farm Park – A Day on the Nation’s Favourite Farmers’ Farm.
Heading to a farm for a spring day out, a few days before Easter, is always such a lovely thing to do with the family. On a recent trip back to the UK, we were staying with my parents who were keen to treat their children and grandchildren to a day out at Adam Henson’s Cotswold Farm Park. His father …
Healing Nature – Relying on the Beach to Work its Magic!
The past few days have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of squabbling, arguing, and whinging going on in our home. We were in need of some emergency healing nature power! I was getting close to the end of my tether with my trio. I’d seen everything over the last few days. We had death stares and grumbles from …
Sir Harold Hillier Gardens – A Child Explorer’s Dream!
The week before Easter saw us heading back to the UK to catch up with family and friends having been living abroad for 6 months now. On one of these lovely sunny spring days, we met some friends at Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, near Romsey in Hampshire. One of the things that was so striking is how much more advanced …
Spring Pond Dipping – Watching Nature Wake Up After Winter
We are back into our Nature Curriculum again now that spring has started to arrive, and nature is finally waking up here in Sweden. It seemed a nice idea, on such a sunny afternoon, to head down to the pond to do a spot of pond dipping and pond studying. The weather has been so sunny, less windy, and dryer, …
A Fairy Garden – Make Tinkerbell and Her Friends a Home.
Hooray, spring is probably here now for good, and we can take our crafting and making back into the great outdoors 🙂 So much easier especially when your supplies come from there and are a tad messy. Today our little lady decided she was going to build a fairy garden. Cue 2 little boys wanting to make one as well, …
Play Is Learning-Let Them Play!
“Play is the highest form of research.” (Albert Einstein) As parents, we are under pressure (both from ourselves and society) to ensure that our children do not miss out on anything, and succeed in everything. Consequently, this has led to the normality of scheduling our children’s days, quite often, from the moment they wake, until the moment they collapse into …
Mini Pond Installation-An Easy Guide to Make a Fun Pond.
Reading a post on another blog, I discovered there was an easy way to add pond life to our garden. We could make a mini pond. My trio love pond dipping, and AcornSTEM’s post was fantastic with its step by step guide. It was a real incentive to try and do this myself. I researched it a little more first, and came …
Slippery Snails Art and Craft Ideas.
We have been studying snails in the Nature Curriculum. Slightly hindered by the snow on the ground, so admittedly it has been mainly theory based. However, it hasn’t stopped us enjoying some snail art and craft. We had lots of ideas, but just did three. I have to rein myself in sometimes as there is so much I want to …
Spring Equinox Picnic-Celebrating the Vernal Equinox
This week it has been the spring equinox, otherwise called the vernal equinox. So, we deviated away from our nature curriculum to have a closer look and some fun with this instead. So what is it? It is technically when spring starts. It is termed an equinox, as all over the globe day and night is roughly equal in length, …
