MOTHERS DAY 2012!

What a lucky Mummy I am to have my wonderful boys.

I was woken to chocolate croissants and shortly after, a cup of tea in bed and homemade cards. The boys chose me flowers while we were at the supermarket Friday evening and I have been enjoying having them next to the bed since we got them home!

Each of the boys climbed in to bed for a cuddle with me and spent the best part of the morning fighting over who was going to hold my hand or arm lol!

My Beautiful flowers from my wonderful boys!

All my goodies!

Kenzie has been very busy writing. I love the bit at the bottom that says "I like it when you tuck me in to bed!" How sweet is that!

 This is the card he made for me when he was off sick last week. The one I was not allowed to see him making!

This is one he made at school. He did a vegetable print apparently!! Bless him!

Brendan made this lovely wheel of messages. You turn it and there are lots of very sweet messages from him, that show up in the box!

And look at that writing! I still can't get over the fact that he is writing now, and that it looks so neat!

Such a very happy and proud mummy!

 I love my boys so VERY, VERY much!

Happy Mothers Day to all you Mumma's out there!

LAST OF OUR ST PATRICK'S DAY FUN!

Well it's been a wonderful week of fun and learning about Ireland and leprechauns! With St Patrick's Day now upon us I thought I would share the last of our activities!

Reading our St Patrick's Day board book!

Playing with a very big hat! Hiding in the very big hat, hiding our friends in the very big hat!

Pulling things out of the very big hat!

Making Pippa wear the very big hat...... although it doesn't look so big on me!

Pulling more Irish treasures from the very big hat!

Once we had run out of things to do with a very big hat, we moved on to play dough!

Using the rolling pin to flatten the dough, using the Shamrock cutter to make Shamrocks and using the little tankard on a chain to hide little green dough balls in!
We spent a lot of this week using the word green and I am hoping the children will have subconsciously absorbed some of that!

So much fun this week. I am now really looking forward to St Georges Day, although I am rather disappointed by the lack of ideas on English blogs and Pintrest.

 I plan to rectify this lack of celebration for our patron saint by going full on this St Georges Day!

Who is with me??

MOTHERS DAY CARDS!

Tomorrow is Mothers Day here in the UK and so the little ones and I made some cards. I really wanted this to be a totally child led activity. We have done a few "end product" focused activities recently and I felt that this should be very much about the child's complete input and design, as much as is possible with such young children!

I lay a variety of craft materials out for the children to look at and choose what they would like to ad to their cards. I gave each a blank card and off they went. Kenzie and little "E" took a tray of bits in to the living room, I was not allowed in there, so I have no photos of the "making" process I am afraid.  But I thought it was lovely that they were going off together to make their cards and that Kenzie was so keen for me not to see what he was making me.

I sat the younger two in the kitchen with me and lay bits out in front of them. I only stepped in to help with pen lids and peeling the backs off of a sticker they had chosen.

Little "L" worked hard at making marks with her pencils. She hasn't got the strength yet to make any firm, heavy marks on paper but she did make marks and was very happy with her work!

Little "R" chose the gell pens. I think she is drawn to the lids! She spends a lot of time trying to take them off and put them back on!

Then we moved on to the stickers! Flowers on this card!

 And a flower or two for Little "L"

Little "E" said mummy likes Dinosaurs. lol..... not sure who like them more but I suspects it is really him! But this is so clearly his choice and work, I know mummy will cherish it. It really does come from his heart bless him.

The girls finished cards.

Our youngest child in the setting, Little "C" is only 9 months, so I had to "Help" her make something. This sort of activity was very much above her age and stage of development so we made hand print flowers, which I think is probably as involved as we can make something from such a young child. But we nearly made mummy cry when we gave it to her. Bless her!

I was very spoilt as well. I got a beautiful bunch of flowers from Little "R" and a card. I did feel very loved and special!!

Happy Mothers Day to all you lovely Mummy's out there!

MAKING RAINBOWS!

Today we spent time looking at Rainbows and colours around us!

We even made our snack time at the local Toddler group I run, in to Rainbow fun!

Brendan got very creative with the wooden Rainbow arches and made some wonderful patterns and images. He took photos of each of his creations. I just had to share them with you. He really does have an eye for creativity!

This is my personal favorite. No idea why, just something about it! Love it!

Rainbows are wonderful things.... no matter how they are formed!