Coloured rice

This was a quirky alternative to sand for the sandbox. They loved messing up the rainbow!

You use uncooked rice, food colouring and vinegar to set it. Then let it dry out on baking trays.

My new 'therapy' w.c.!

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 what to do to make the downstairs w.c. more interesting. I was hoping to go eccentric and then it struck me I could put them on the wall. I drew frames around the print outs with a permanent marker.

I love the result. It serves as a place to escape and read some phrases to 'restock' me for my next few hours with the mayhem that is looking after three young boys. I also hope it serves to 'indoctrinate' the children with positive messages. And I also love finding out which phrases have stuck in guests minds. It doubles up as a good excuse for however long they have spent in the loo!

Fun things to do when the boys get home from school. Hunting with water bombs.

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. They are tricky little beggars!

Lego party food & games & party bags

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 pulled together for his little party tea.

1.Legohead marshmallow cakepops

Dip marshmallows in yellow food paste coloured, melted, white chocolate. And topped with a yellow smartie or skittle. Face painted on with black icing.

Lego head tophat/cakepops

2. Lego brick biscuits. 

Nigella's sugar biscuits covered in coloured water icing and 6 smarties or skittles would work too (with brighter colour matching)

Lego brick biscuits

3. Lego brick sandwiches

This idea went down a storm and I have made them several times since. By request for lunch boxes and for our early doors car journey to legoland! The photo isn't great but hopefully you get the idea. Make a simple sandwich, cut off the crusts and cut in half horizontally. Using a small  round cutter, cut multiple rounds from another piece of bread and stick on 6 to the sandwich using philly or spread. Easy and highly desirable by small and big boys alike!

4. Lego brick juice boxes/cartons.

I found a free printable on one of my internet trawls (sorry I can't find it to post it here) and printed it on coloured paper and wrapped around the juice boxes. Fab idea!

Non lego related food products were served in lego/duplo (sterilised) box/containers. That was a job I could delegate to the boys and kept their hands out of the way for a while!

Duplo made food serving vessel

Other decoration ideas I used;

1. Birthday message written in lego.

2. I found and downloaded a free lego font and  used it to make this backdrop sign.

3. The lego head made of cardboard. which was used in one of the games as well as for decoration.

4 And lots of print outs of head found on the internet.

Games we played

1. Pin the head on the lego man!

2. Throw the lego bean bag in the lego head.

Party bags included
1. Lego bean bags
2. Lego name plates
3. Lego erasers
4. Lego cake
5. Lego pop
6. Homemade lego colouring book