Mushroom Jam Jar Lanterns
A Mushroom Jam Jar Lantern - The must have table accessory for early autumn dinner time! Transform your autumn evenings with this simple yet beautiful cosy craft. You do not need much at all to make them and they are the perfect craft for tiny hands. All you need is: A recycled jar Kite paper Glue A doily for the mushroom gill! I used our @kitpasaustralia crayons to draw on the spotty-dotty's! however you can use white kite paper, paint or even a white pencil. All you need to do is to cut out your mushroom shapes and glue them on with a glue stick, and just
DIY Watercolour Bookmarks
My beautiful first born has started his journey through the wonder of reading. Books are life. I remember being exactly the same as a child. Reading transformed my life, and I am currently witnessing the same unfolding with my beautiful boy. What an incredible thing learning to read is. I feel his whole world is now opening up, purely thanks to the wonder of reading. He decided he needed a book mark, And also wanted to make some for the family and for his friends. So we decided to have a go at making some using our water colour paints
Earl Grey Tea Cakes
This week for poetry tea time, the children and I made a Earl Grey Tea Cake, and it was THE most delicious cake I have ever made and possibly ever eaten. That is a pretty big call but a truthful one! The taste was delicious, soft and moist and had the most wonderful flavours derived straight from the tea, rich orange, bergamot and a hint of a smoky yet lemony flavour, it was such a treat. We will absolutely be making it again. Ingredients Just over 1 cup organic milk5 Earl Grey tea bags200 grams of organic unsalted butter1 cup
Allowing Space For Wonder
A few weeks in to our home-schooling journey and we have already hit a few metaphorical bumps in the road. It turns out that home-schooling 'can' - but not always, seem a lot like normal parenting, yet magnified. The feelings, the house work, the love the laughter and the tears. As we slowly forge our way as a home-schooling family, I am beginning to open up to new ideals and ways of being. We are learning quickly that there are no right or wrong ways to do this, and the thing that will hold this ship together is and always