Library Stories, Songs and Crafts

This term we have been attending preschooler Story Time sessions at our local library. Because #3 spends a lot of time coming along to activities her siblings are involved in, it's been lovely to have something that's mainly for her.

Summer Is Icumen In

Finally, the warmer weather seems to have arrived! We've been swimming at the local outdoor pool, had a BBQ with friends, and started work again on the jungle that is our garden after the wet spring and too much neglect.  We've been picking strawberries out the front, this week we got our first handful of raspberries and it looks like we'll have a punnet or two of blueberries, provided we can keep the birds off them until they ripen. Here's our Seasonal Table, where we brought in Summer on the first really summery day.

Natural Learning Co-op

Over the last couple of months the snowflakes and I have been enjoying educational activites and the chance to socialise at our co-op. Last time we learned about wet felting by making felted soaps. We're looking forward to plenty more fun and variety over the coming months.

Beltane 2011

Our celebration was somewhat subdued this year as a few things have been happening and I just didn't have the energy to organise anything exciting. Instead of our usual dance around the maypole outside, the snowflakes made a mini maypole to put on the Seasonal Table (it's just a piece of foam trimmed from some of that excess packaging you often get, painted green, with a bit of dowling poked into it and the lengths of yarn pinned into place). Instead of cooking a feast, we had some colourful cupcakes (evil store-bought ones, but they were very pretty!). Snowflake #2 ended up dressing as a witch because she was celebrating Halloween with her Girl Guides group.

And here is the maypole base after we took it off the Table and snowflake #2 decided to repurpose it as a currach for her Lego sailor: