Of course the best thing about getting a new washing machine is that it comes in a really big box!!!
With a sharp knife and some good sticky tape we created a cubby house, with a sky light!
Simple pleasures…
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A wonderful Mum at the Twinadoes School, known in our house as ‘Princess Heather, made these awesome plaster Easter eggs for the kids to decorate in class this week.
Princess Heather used silicon cake moulds (for locals, she got these fabulous egg moulds from the Reject Shop – they are on sale now, if they have any left) and plaster of paris (available from any hardware store) to create the eggs. Then the kids painted them with regular, kid friendly, paints.
This is such a fabulous ‘non chocolate’ Easter activity or gift I thought I’d share it with you all. It would also be a great party activity, I am eyeing off dinosaur cake moulds for a certain small boy’s party sometime in the future!
Thanks Princess Heather – both girls loved doing this and their eggs now take pride of place on the shelf in their bedroom!
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What do you do when you get some really big bits of cardboard after an Ikea purchase, but they are not in box form and there is only two of them so all attempts at making a cubby fail miserably?
You paint BIG, that’s what you do!
Ikea is also a good resource for drawing big too!
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Trying to keep all the Picklebums entertained on a day when it is either too hot or too wet to go outside (and we’ve had both since new years!) isn’t always easy. But sometimes I forget the joy of simple things…
It had been so long since we’d made play dough, and if I remember rightly that might have had something to do with Muski eating a large amount of play dough last time. Not to mention sticking it in some rather inconvenient places and the mess… ah yes the mess. But I am getting over myself when it comes to mess (I do have a fancy new vac these days and that helps) and well everyone is older and wiser and more annoying…. So we made play dough.
I went with the quick and easy microwave recipe –
2 cups of flour
1 cup of salt
2 table spoons of cream of tar tar
2 table spoons of oil
2 cups of water
colouring – food dye or paint.
Zap it in the microwave, stirring and checking every minute or so until it appears to come together and seem ‘cooked’. Allow to cool.
This makes enough for my three to have a good lump each. Half this recipe is probably enough for two and more than enough for one. It’s not as lovely and smooth as the cooked on the stove dough, but it’s a lot less stirring. And don’t worry leave the microwave container to soak in some warm water and the horrible looking mess comes of quiet easily.
Even the big girls played for ages. See sometimes it is the old, tried and true simple things that are often the best!
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It’s the end of third term here.
Two weeks off from kinder and ballet and a couple of other things that we attempt to squeeze into our life. Two weeks to sleep in and take it easy. Two weeks to go on adventures and paint and draw and stay in our pyjamas all day!
We do have a few things planned. The girls are doing swimming lessons every day next week, which is an adventure since they’ve not had lessons before and are VERY excited. We also have plans for some arty stuff and some sewing. If the weather is good for us we have plans for seeds and planting and, fingers crossed, a chick or two hatching, not to mention building a house for the ducklings!
I’m sure we won’t actually get half of that list done… because I am voting for doing nothing a lot of the time!!
Today, we took a family car trip to the Kids Town Park at Shepparton. With the portable DVD player the kids really enjoy a good car trip and the Baldy Boy and I love to drive and chat and look out the window and play ‘what if we moved out here!’, so we often take off for a day out. The park wasn’t quite as fabulous as the web site said it was, but the kids had a great time and it was just nice to spend a whole day together as a family.
If you happen to be on holidays too.. what have you got planned?
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