Category Archives: Discovering

Homemade Rainbow Wax Crayons

homemade rainbow wax crayons

Wow, it’s been a while. My ‘quiet moments’ for blogging seem to be disappearing as Christmas approaches! Anyway, here is a lovely simple activity that is not at all ‘Christmassy’ but very very cool! We seemed to have hundreds of …

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Kitchen science

White vinegar, food colouring, bicarbonate of soda. So simple, so much fun! This is one of those age-old kitchen cupboard science experiments that I have been looking forward to doing for a while. It was so simple to set up …

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Autumnal treasures

autumn leaves conkers

For the last few weeks, Annabelle and I have been busy scouring various local parks and woods with our wicker baskets collecting leaves, conkers, acorns and Autumn treasures! Well actually – I had a wicker basket, Annabelle had her “whisker …

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It started with a pumpkin!

Yet another ‘we don’t do halloween but…’ post! Halloween seems to get bigger and bigger each year (or rather the halloween aisles in the shops do!) and we have been seeing pumpkins and images of pumpkin faces all month so …

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More little Moments

Here are a few of our little moments from the end of summer. Secret Moments Shhh…don’t tell Grandad, but Annabelle has been playing golf without him! My Dad is a retired professional golfer, and I am pretty sure that he …

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