September 2011

Things I know about head lice…

September 30, 2011

Here, for your reading displeasure, is a random list of things I know about head lice…. Plans for a peaceful Thursday evening can be destroyed with one little sentence; “Mum, my head is itchy.” Where there is one head louse, there is always more. If your child really, really dislikes having his hair cut, he’ll [...]

Free Printable – Kid’s Letter Writing Set 2

September 28, 2011

Last week I shared my first kids letter writing set, and my big kids have been busy writing letters all week! This week, as promised, we have another, slightly less pink, set to share. This one has brighter colours and friendly little monsters with the same dotted lines for beginning writers and matching envelopes to [...]

Easy Art for Kids – Squish Painting.

September 27, 2011

School holidays are in full swing here at The Pickle Farm and it only took two days before they asked to ‘do something cool with the paints!’ Luckily I had just bought two big rolls of paper from Ikea and had a few fun painting ideas tucked away in the back of my mind especially [...]

Toy Rotation.

September 26, 2011

We have several small ‘play spaces’ tucked into nooks and crannies of our little old house. There is a little table tucked in near our big dining table, an easel that often lives at one end of our tiny kitchen, and a corner of our living room that is dedicated to toys. We don’t have [...]

Lovely Links – Lets Make Bread

September 24, 2011

I’m not sure what’s come over me, but lately I’ve been busy making bread, lots and lots of bread! Before you think I am total whiz in the kitchen, rest assured that I use our trusty bread machine to do all the hard work. I let it mix, knead and rise the dough the first [...]

Things I Thought I Knew.

September 23, 2011

I thought I knew how to type… then I got this new lapt top with the crazy keyboard. I thought I knew what the big boy was doing… but obviously not or I would have stopped him from breaking a shelf in the fridge! I thought making pavlova was hard… but actually it’s pretty easy. [...]

Printable Kids Letter Writing Set

September 22, 2011

To celebrate my girls’ new, and very grown up, writing desk, I made them some special writing paper and envelopes. They have had a lovely time writing letters to their friends at school and over the holidays they have plans to write to a few more special people and send ‘real proper letters with a [...]

Music and Movement with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra!

September 21, 2011

“Mum! Mum!” The girls were sitting on the floor, right up the front, and I was sitting with the boys in the seats a few rows behind. We were at the Iwaki Auditorium for Movement Makes Music, a special Children’s event by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra featuring dancers from the Australian Ballet’s education unit. The [...]

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Printable Love or Lunch Box Notes.
February 3, 2012

I am back making school lunches and next week my big boy will need lunch for kinder (preschool) too, thankfully only once a week, but all of them want to know when I will start leaving notes in their lunch boxes! So I think it’s time for some new lunch box notes. I am not [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Printable Christmas Cheer
December 14, 2011

We are in need of a little brightness around here, and some Christmas decorations that Noah can’t pull down and destroy… Click on any of the above images to download an A4 (letter sized) printable poster to add some Christmas cheer. Or shrink them down and print them onto cards and share the joy. Check [...]

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