Sometimes one forgets how hard it is to be three or four years old. Sometimes we forget the words to express how we feel. Especially when we have two languages. Quite frankly, sometimes it’s easier to point! (And the laminator comes in useful again!)
Archive for February, 2012
Learning To Feel
Posted in Building and discovery, Everyday things.. on February 29, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Make Some Owl Cards
Posted in Arts and Crafts on February 26, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The kids really enjoyed coloring in these beautiful owls…. We then cut them out and laminated them… They’ll be great to invent a card game or two! Find them here
Letter O!
Posted in Arts and Crafts, In The Kitchen, Letters and Numbers on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Alfie is seriously starting to learn to read and write. He quite liked the idea of reinforcing a letter a week… Letter O. Letter O is for many things… O is for many different shades of the colour orange. And looks like O shaped cereal… O is for an Octopus’ garden… (Don’t forget to check [...]
Beautiful Colour
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Books, Sensory on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It started with Valentines day. Alfie decided to collect all things RED. A game I would have assumed would no longer be exciting to him…. …..but how wrong I was! Here he is on the lookout for something blue… And it wasn’t long before the whole parachute was ordered with colour! It seemed that colour [...]
Orange Treats For The Birds
Posted in In The Kitchen, Nature, Seasonal on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Spoon out the fruit of half an orange. Spread peanut butter inside. Sprinkle seeds on to the peanut butter. And add some wool to hang.
Hearts
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Celebrations, Seasonal, Sensory on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve had lots of visitors recently. Visitors from Norway. Visitors from England. Our house has been filled with the noise of many children. Our time has been filled with trips – museums, sledging hills, ski-ing trips, play places. But we still had a little time to celebrate Valentines day… With ice hearts… Jelly hearts… And [...]
A New Gift From An Old Pencil
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Marvelous Maya's Creations on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I just wanted to post about Maya’s latest creation. She wanted to make some gifts for Alfie and Leon. And she decided to ‘renew’ some old pencils…. Are they not just lovely? A little glue, some tiny gems, some ribbon and a couple of beads. Oh! And two goggly eyes!
*Twinkle Twinkle Little Star…*
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Awesome Alfie's Art & Stuff, Books, Building and discovery, In The Kitchen on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last week we were looking at stars. Up on the sledging hill, in the local park, late in the afternoon when the sun had just gone down, we saw our first star. It was the North Star, the Polaris. “Make a wish!” I shouted to the kids. Alfie wished for “all the skateboards in the [...]
