Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Stretchy Play dough

Stretchy Fun



If you like tactile things then this really is for you! And it is (like most the things I do soooo easy!)

You need two ingredients - Cornflour and Hair conditioner (I bought a really cheap non branded economy one!)

Mix equal quantities and then kneed until it all starts coming together and you are done!



You might want to add some colour - we didn't!


It smells lovely (depending on the conditioner!) 



Its pretty amazing stuff - you can stretch it for ever, but if you pull quickly it will snap!

Happy Stretching....

Friday, 20 June 2014

Fathers' Day


Long Time No See


We have had a lot going on recently and are in the process of moving house and area, so things are a little stressful to say the least! This is not to say that we haven't still been doing activities and I have still been catching a lot of it on camera, however I have not had time to put it all down, hence the lack of blogging.

Today, however I find myself at home with a sick child forced to sit on the sofa in front of endless kids films and decided it was a great time to catch up on some blog posting. So here we go with a quick one to start!


Something a bit different


We don't do as much for Fathers' day as Mothers' day (I guess that is my fault!) however we do always make some cards. Together with the boys (who really don't like drawing!) we decided to make a Fathers' day card in a different way this year.

We made the letters out of them!






They were so good at staying still most of the time.

The "Y" was the funniest and they really couldn't stop laughing!

I then put them into a photo editing app and the boys helped decided on the design - I am not the best photographer (in fact I admit I am pretty bad) but nevertheless we liked the outcome:


I will try not to leave it so long next time!

If you have manage to scroll all the way this far, thank you!

Plaster of Paris Egg

Easter Time!


I found this post that I hadn't posted so here you go!!

During Easter I had a few afternoons just with Olly so we decide to try making a "porcelain" egg for Easter!

This was so quick and so effective!

We filled a squeeze bottle with mixed plaster of paris then squeezed it into a blow in water balloon.

Then left it in a cup for literally about 15 mins - it feels hard...

Then we started to peal away the balloon - I loved this bit - a bit like pealing dried glue off your hands!



The finished egg was brilliant and so shiny it really did look like a real egg. Now if I had girls we would have spend ages lovingly paint this, but not with boys - they took it outside and smashed it!!

As always thanks for reading!