Halloween, at last

Sunnyboy has really been looking forward to Halloween and we've been counting down since last Halloween, first the seasons, then more recently the weeks and the days. This afternoon we hurried home from our home education group so Sunnyboy could change into the costume he bought a couple of months ago and then we counted down the minutes to the Halloween party.

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Honey Bees (Nozy's Nature Pictures)

March 2010





See more animal pictures at Camera Critters

Spot the difference

One day as we were walking into town we saw a spy and I asked him if I could take his picture. Another day we were walking into town again and Sunnyboy stopped at the same place and asked me to take a picture.


See more skies at Skywatch Friday
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Crafts inspired by a museum trip

We are lucky to have lots of great museums in our city and recently we went with our home education group to the Museum of Classical Archaeology, which houses a collection of plaster casts of Greek & Roman sculpture. We took sketchbooks with us.


Cast of the Farnese Herakles

Then last weekend we made our own plaster cast using a vinyl glove and plaster of Paris. We poured the plaster of Paris into the glove, tied it with an elastic band and used two more elastic bands to hang it up outside while it set.



When the plaster had set we cut off the vinyl glove,





and Sunnyboy painted the hand.



By this time the hand was missing a couple of fingers and, as many of the casts in the museum were also missing fingers, limbs and other body parts, we thought it looked quite authentic.

See more play, craft and learning ideas at:
Link & Learn at No Time For Flash Cards
Learning Laboratory at mama smiles
Show and Tell at ABC and 123
Kids Get Crafty at Red Ted Art's Blog
Fun Sparks at Science Sparks
Play Academy at NurtureStore
Fun for Kids Friday at Local Fun For Kids
Monstrously Creative Saturday at Boredom Busting Mommy
It's Playtime at The Imagination Tree, Quirky Momma, let the children play, hands on : as we grow and Messy Kids
The Sunday Showcase at Classified: Mom and Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas

Crafts with packing peanuts

We were given several bags of packing peanuts and used some of them as bricks to make a play area for Sunnyboy's toys. We dipped the packing peanuts in water and put them on a piece of card one by one. After doing this with each layer of packing peanuts we left it overnight so the wet packing peanuts would dry and stick to the card and each other, before adding another layer the next day. Last weekend we decided we'd done enough layers of bricks and it was ready to play with,





and to paint.







Our next project is a packing peanut robot. This picture shows the outline of a robot on the card and the first layer of packing peanuts,



and this picture was taken the next day when we were halfway through the second layer. The packing peanuts from the day before are now dry and have shrunk a little.



We'll post another picture when the robot is finished.

See more play, craft and learning ideas at:
Link & Learn at No Time For Flash Cards
Learning Laboratory at mama smiles
Show and Tell at ABC and 123
Kids Get Crafty at Red Ted Art's Blog
Fun Sparks at Science Sparks
Play Academy at NurtureStore
Fun for Kids Friday at Local Fun For Kids
Monstrously Creative Saturday at Boredom Busting Mommy
It's Playtime at The Imagination Tree, Quirky Momma, let the children play, hands on : as we grow and Messy Kids
The Sunday Showcase at Classified: Mom and Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas

Halloween conker characters (and a hedgehog) and a new Halloween costume

We've been collecting conkers and last weekend Sunnyboy thought it would be a good idea to use some to make Halloween conker characters (and a hedgehog).



Sunnyboy has been preparing for Halloween for quite some time, well since last year actually. A while ago he found some costumes at work and tried them on. This was his favourite so he bought it ready to wear at Halloween this year.



See more play, craft and learning ideas at:
Link & Learn at No Time For Flash Cards
Learning Laboratory at mama smiles
Show and Tell at ABC and 123
Kids Get Crafty at Red Ted Art's Blog
Fun Sparks at Science Sparks
Play Academy at NurtureStore
Fun for Kids Friday at Local Fun For Kids
Monstrously Creative Saturday at Boredom Busting Mommy
It's Playtime at The Imagination Tree, Quirky Momma, let the children play, hands on : as we grow and Messy Kids
The Sunday Showcase at Classified: Mom and Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
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Halloween Ideas Party at Come Together Kids

Sharing Hope - The Battles and the Breakthrough

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Neville Hodgkinson
The Battles — and the Breakthrough: How They Fought Nature and their Critics
Daily Mail
London, 27 July 1978
When news leaked out and reporters started to bother his patient Lesley Brown, the Oldham gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe brokered an exclusive deal with the Daily Mail. The paper, which especially targeted women readers, ran the story on the front page several times. Louise Brown was born near midnight on 25 July, but instead of a big splash the next morning, the Mail used its access to produce a five-page feature the following day. This gave sympathetic coverage to the Brown family, the prospects for infertility treatment and — after years of mixed press — Steptoe, Robert Edwards and the science of in vitro fertilization.
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A weekend at home, working and playing in the garden in the October sun

Playing rescue games with Spider-Man and his friends.









Mushrooms growing round an old tree stump.



Conkers and crafts.







Grapes from our garden.



Plaster of Paris.



Painting and packing peanuts.



A jar of leftover paint and a maze for Spider-Man.



Sunnyboy has also been helping Nozy to cut back hedges and a tree, build and light a bonfire, do the groundwork for a new summerhouse in the other garden and lay a concrete base under the water butt.

More garden news is that our frog visitor has stayed.

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