We live just 20 minutes drive from the coast of the Swedish archipelago, and this is where the little beach of Galö lies, and is where we had our Sunday lunch picnic today.
Archive for April, 2010
Sunday Lunch In Galö
Posted in Everyday things.., Green Areas Around Stockholm, Journeys and Trips on April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Adventure Kids
Posted in Building and discovery, Journeys and Trips, Nature on April 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today is a big day for Leon and Maya! Today Leon has set off on his first ever overnight Scout trip – a boat trip to an island called ‘Utö’ on the Stockholm archipelaego. He left early this morning, and will return tomorrow afternoon. They will sleep in a little cottage on the island, and [...]
St. Georges’ Day Initiation
Posted in Celebrations, Journeys and Trips on April 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had all good intentions of doing a mini-project on England with the kids, it being St.George’s day and that – but as it is also Richard’s birthday, and we were busy baking cakes, swimming, and packing for Leon’s camping trip (see next post), we never got round to it… However, Leon did have, as [...]
Our Earth Day Project
Posted in Books, Building and discovery, Everyday things.., Nature on April 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Earth day was invented on the 22nd April 1970 to raise awareness and appreciation for our planet. We started with a story…. “Once upon a time there was a beautiful lake, full of wonderful fish and plants, where people liked to come and enjoy picnics. ..” “…but as time went on people would sometimes forget [...]
Sticky Backed Plastic Fun
Posted in Arts and Crafts on April 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You may not believe it, and neither did I at 9am this morning, but today it started to snow again! I abandoned all ideas of some outside play, and decided to think of a craft – which can be very difficult when you have a 6 year old, and a 2 year old. But the [...]
Sami Children
Posted in Building and discovery, Journeys and Trips on April 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday we visited Stockholm’s ‘Etnologiska Museum’, which is a fascinating little museum about people around the world. They have some wonderful exhibitions about tribes and ‘people groups’. Maya and Leon loved it , particularly the exhibition about North American Indians. Today, however, we concentrated on the ‘Sami’ exhibition, which was interactive, and therefore also good [...]
“Look! I Can Draw With Wax!”
Posted in Arts and Crafts, In The Kitchen on April 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
That was what Maya stated this morning after dipping a wooden kebab stick into some melted wax from a candle she had made, and drawing with it on paper. I then told her that, actually, crayons were made from wax, and thought of an activity we did many moons ago in California…. Put them in [...]
Fun With Fractions
Posted in Letters and Numbers on April 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This morning Leon and Maya have been having fun playing this fraction game – homework from leon’s school. Firstly, write out numbers 1 to 6 (for the dice numbers), and an instruction for each number : 1) Put on a 1/2 2) Put on a 1/4 3) Put on an 1/8 4) Put on a [...]
Christmas Comes Early
Posted in Arts and Crafts on April 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday Maya decided she wanted to make a 3D Christmas tree from cardboard. Well, I guess what she really meant, was fir tree. On Thursday, on a walk in the forest, she found a little silver painted hanging squirrel, which was very funny, because right now, her favourite song is ‘Ekorren satt i granan’, which [...]
Good Times Ahead
Posted in Everyday things.., Seasonal on April 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You have no idea, after this long, hard, cold winter, with four months of deep snow, how happy the Swedes are to finally (FINALLY!) see the sun! In this week that we have been back from Egypt, we have spend so much time outside… Leon and Maya have spend most afternoons constructing obstacle courses for [...]
