Here I go with the old cliche....the months are just flying by. I can hardly believe that this is the last half term holiday before we break up for summer. This month has been somewhat disappointing weather wise, nevertheless, I have endeavoured to make sure the children spend more time outside. I bought them a nature discovery kit complete with net, tweezers, magnifying glass and pot.
I love the attire they chose to wear when we went exploring in the garden, turning over stones.
They turned over lots of rocks and stones in the garden.
On one of the rainy days, the children spontaneously built a fort in the garden, I had to force myself to stop saying "you're getting that dirty/messy" in favour of just letting them have fun. When they started arguing about who was getting wet, I wrapped it up and they came inside!
They were happy to snuggle up in blankets and watch some TV.
Later on in the month, Aldi were selling pineapples for 69p so before we ate it, I led the children in a still life session; I've still got the picture I drew when I did this with my mummy when I was the same age as the girls.
One day Mia came home, really excited about a project she did at school using wax crayons. We decided to recreate the project at home, and thanks to Mia's instructions, it was very successful.
The week leading up to half term and half term itself I was reminded by my body to slow down, so Sarah, beloved Sarah came to the rescue on the Tuesday after Bank Holiday when Jason had to go back to work.
On another day, we had the pleasure of looking after the Steven's children. We played rounders in the field and went to the park.
One day while I was making dinner, I came down to find that the kids had rigged up a zip wire.
My first reaction was to yell "DO NOT slide down this it's DANGEROUS".
Ismay however merely informed me that it wasn't to transport people, but food, like the borrowers did!
Here, they are, my little borrowers:
We had a garden day:
On the last day of the holidays we had a "relax" day, we did some drawing and had popcorn and watched movies and looked at information books.
Before we knew it, it was back to school. One day last week, we came across a dead bird in the garden. Before burying it, Ismay used her tweezers to inspect it, using an encyclopaedia to identify the various different parts.
Eden has managed to accumulate some marbles (from his Grandma possibly?) and it was been nice to watch him and Mia playing together nicely as they've invented their own games.
