The Long Room

Sticky Collections

I have written about this activity before. Several times. And once again, I have come back to the much-loved collecting-bits fun that is the 'sticky board'! This is my at-a-loose-end-argh-help fall back activity that requires very little in the way of props - essentially a piece of card from the recycling bin with a strip of double-sided sticky tape on it. For some reason, it generates an inordinate amount of squealing excitement and can be done whatever the weather, with a multitude of variations... marvellous.

You can read about previous adventures here and in more detail, here.

Marble Fun

For the last week or so we have been cooped up inside, due to a most exciting combination of chicken pox and miserable weather. One morning in a giddy bid for freedom I escaped to a car boot sale with *only 1* child, whilst the Daddy stayed home and supervised lego playtime. Well I say 'supervised' - it's more than likely that Small Boy Child played lego for a short while, went off and did something else, leaving his father engrossed in said lego play, blissfully unaware of the whereabouts of his 2 remaining young children.

But anyway - I came home and there was this marvellous lego creation on the table - a collaborative effort for sure and a rather tricky one at that. It is a marble maze. If I remember correctly, the marble goes in under the building with the little red chimney and then you have to shake it round the maze, tipping and tilting the baseboard until it emerges out of the hole at the other side. Apparently they built all the walls first and then added little rooves to cover up the paths - and it is surprisingly difficult in places to work out how to shift the marble. Cue a few puzzled expressions from me.

Anyway, if you find yourself holed up with the pox on a drizzly day, why not grab some lego blocks and a marble or two and construct yourself a lego maze? It's definitely a Daddy-boredom buster too. 

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A moment from this week to stop and savour. No words, only a picture. (Inspired by SouleMama)

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A moment from this week to stop and savour. No words, only a picture. (Inspired by SouleMama)

Making Mini-Worlds

Herbs for me, jungle for them. Win win.

Happy Monday!

10 things I am thankful for today:

• toast
• Mr K, my weekend doctor, child-amuser and all round Good Egg
• morning sunshine
• bestickered (a new word?) cards from little folk
• about 36 hours sleep out of the last 48 - I think it's done some good
• clean sheets
• baby-mushed cheeks
• wonky pigtails
• riverdancing door-bouncer baby moves
• naptime peace

Tape Games

One of our most recent favourite games has involved flinging marbles around erratically and extracting carpet fluff with vast quantities of masking tape. An activity both dangerous and domestically helpful. 

Stick strips of masking tape round in concentric circles - get the kids to help you if you find this a little tricky! Decide whereabouts you will put your 'starting line' - the further back, the harder it gets. To take a go, roll a marble - more points for a bullseye and decreasing totals the further out from the centre you roll. Simples.

Matchbox Monsters

While clearing out the Making Cupboard we found some left over matchboxes from last year's Advent Calendar - A ha!" we thought - just right for making some monsters with opening tummies. (At the time we had a severe case of monsters-on-the-brain going on.) And an opening tummy is always a useful feature to enable easy viewing of previous gobblings. Fortunately nothing too terrible has been secreted away in these little boxes, as yet... 

 

One Snowy Crafternoon: Simple Mark Making

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A moment from this week to stop and savour. No words, only a picture. (Inspired by SouleMama)