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Baking Shortbread biscuits with the kids
Pink has been reading the Katie in Scotland book recently and wanted to make some shortbread biscuits like they eat in the book. Lucky for me my mom had a lovely recipe for shortbread biscuits so a rainy morning inside … Continue reading
Percy the Park Keeper
Blue finally discovered the Percy the Park Keeper books (written by Nick Butterworth). We have some of the books around the house as Pink loves any story that involves kind animals but until recently Blue was not that interested. Now … Continue reading
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Tagged children's book, guess the animal, home ed, homeschooling, ks1 english, Percy the Park Keeper, Twinkl
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Home made scratch art
Over the weekend Pink asked to do some scratch art (she meant the ones that you can buy in the shop), we did not have any so we decided to make our own. We started off by creating blocks of … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Craft Ideas, Homeschooling
Tagged children's craft, christmas tree, home ed, homeschooling, kids art, kids craft, scratch art, writing
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The Scarecrow’s wedding and scarecrow cookies
We bought a new addition to our mini Julia Donaldson library last week – The Scarecrow’s Wedding (affiliate link). We all love it. Pink thinks that Harry and Betty (the 2 main characters) are lovely and gentle so I could … Continue reading
Banana Muffins
Before I had my kids I was very good about following a low GI (Glycaemic Index) diet but then motherhood and all that came with it hit and my good habbits melted away. I am trying to get back into … Continue reading
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