Cobble & Gobble

This was a quirky alternative to sand for the sandbox. They loved messing up the rainbow! You use uncooked rice, food colouring and ...

I had been collecting sayings I like on Pinterest for ages and had no idea what to do with them. At the same time I was trying to think wha...

This was waiting for the boys when they got home from school today. There would have been more water bombs but they took me hours to fill....

We had a little birthday tea for Max's birthday and it had a lego theme. There is tonnes of ideas on the net. This is just the bits I ...

We made this out of the branches from the tree we had to have pulled down. I love that it is functional and  decorative.

 Max's fifth birthday and a birthday treat of a trip to legoland meant the obvious choice for the cake was going to be somehow connect...

This is another common idea from pinterest (see Teach, Play, Love- my boys here ) adapted to what I had available. I used large ziplock f...

This was an exercise in trying to improve Max's fine motor skills and strength by using pipettes and syringes to transfer coloured white...

This is a recipe from a friend who came to stay bearing gifts of a whole tin of these yummy flapjack type cocounutty thingys, which she c...

I decided to make macaroons/macarons for Mothers Day. I followed this recipe from Macaron fetish blogspot. I made one big batch and sub di...

This was another idea I found on a late night pinterest hunt. (See my pinterest board entitled Teach, Play love - my boys here  for origina...

1. Feeding pipe cleaners into colander holes 2. Joining two colanders together 3. Picking up cut up bits of pipe cleaner with a bi...

In case it isn't clear (which I know it isn't!), this was my attempt to create a spotty jelly! I made strawberry, blackcurrant ...