Autumn has to be one of the most beautiful seasons and it is a fantastic time of the year for children to get outside in nature and notice all the changes that are happening around them. One of the first things children will notice is the leaves changing colour and falling to the floor so we have put together a Autumn leaf hunt activity sheet for you to download and enjoy with the kids. See how many Autumn leaves you can find and identify. Continue reading “Autumn leaf hunt activity”
Mini beast hunting activities with kids
This week we’ve been enjoying spending time in the garden doing mini beasts hunts with the kids. Although the days are feeling chillier there still is an abundance of activity in the garden and we managed to find everything but the damsel fly on our mini beast hunt list. Activities like these are so easy to do and children of all ages can get so much fun out of them, watching our son who is two get excited when he found a spider and pointing to the spider picture on the sheet was a highlight for us. We have designed a Minibeast hunt activity sheet that you can download and enjoy.
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How to make a flower pot person with kids
This week we thought it would be fun for the kids to make a flower pot person for the garden using a stack of spare pots we have in the shed. The kids enjoyed decorating our flower pot girl whilst I did the fiddlier part of stringing everything together and thankfully our pots already had draining holes which made this a much easier task. We finished off our design by potting up some parsley for hair. This was a really great activity for us all to do as a family and it was great watching the kids get creative in their own way with the left over plant pots, our daughter made a train for her brother and our son used them as tunnels for his cars. To make you own flower pot person please see below for instructions.
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Courgette cake recipe
This week we have been getting creative in the kitchen trying to find different ways to use all the courgettes that have been kindly given to us from a local grower and as I was searching for recipes I stumbled across courgette cakes. We’ve made carrot cake, parsnips cake and beetroot cake in the past but courgette cake was a new one for us but we were excited to give them a try. They were surprisingly very tasty and the kids ate a lot of them. To make your own courgette cakes please see the recipe in this post. Continue reading “Courgette cake recipe”