All Change!

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Beth at Bamm Boo

It’s been a strange year, one that I’m hoping has turned a corner now. I had to go back to work full time while my amazing husband stayed home with our little one. We’ve now moved to London and I’m back at home for the time being while my husband is working crazy (or what feels like crazy to us) hours in the city.

I’m planning on getting back to making; initially working through the backlog of presents and things I told myself I’d make. It’s also likely that our – not so little – boy will miss the start of school so I’m planning lots of homeschooling type of experiences.

We do have a garden now which we have no clue what to do with!

I know there are lots of posts with missing photos – it’s on my list! I’ve also got a load of pictures to upload of things I made for Christmas! Comments are still disabled (I hope) but do come and say hi on Facebook 

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Christmas Tree Play-Dough

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Beth at Bamm Boo

This was advent day 5. I did this last year but I added the glitter and sequins etc in myself first – this year’s worked much better (of course Boo is a year older so it could just be that he understands what’s going on a bit more)

I made the play-dough using the recipe from Counting Coconuts – if you haven’t seen this blog before have a good look around it’s amazing!! Boo helped me with the mixing because I didn’t actually get it ready the night before! I need to get some better food colouring because my play-dough always comes out really pastel colours.

We used a cookie cutter to make the trees.
Then sprinkled on glitter – he was really good at just putting a bit on.

 

Then we added sequins and buttons to decorate

I love the way he can develop an activity himself. He decided they were cookies and put them in the oven to cook

Don’t they look delicious!

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Advent days 1-7

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Beth at Bamm Boo

I’d planned to update this sooner but we’ve been having laptop issues. Our advent jars are a mixture of activities, little toys and chocolates. I don’t actually get everything ready before advent start  I just fill the jars with whatever’s ready and then prepare the othersas and when. I’ve planned a lot of the same activities as last year.It’s been really interesting to see the different ways he approaches things.

Day 1 Glow sticks. I wasn’t sure how these would go down but he loved them. Our house is pretty dark and gloomy at the moment so they stood out really well. After he’d waved them around like magic wands for a while we used them to make shapes.

* it says on the packet they’re for 7+ only so obviously I kept an eye on him!

Day 2 Chocolate Christmas Puddings

Day 3 Threading jingle bells – we threaded wool into the bells and then hung them on Boo’s tree

*You’ll see lots of pictures of him in his PJs I do get him dressed during the day honestly!

Day 4 Stickers – for some reason only logical to an almost 4 year old he refused to take the backing off and sorted them all into groups

Day 5 Christmas tree play dough – this was fantastic. I’m going to do a proper post about it soon

Day 6 Magnetic ‘paper dolls’ I got this in a freebie from Allsorts it’s amazing. I printed it out onto magnetic paper just like I did for this one I may well be doing some more of these for presents for little people.

Day 7 Chocolate Christmas Puddings

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Advent 2012

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Beth at Bamm Boo

After all of my work last year this year was a doddle 🙂  I pulled out the jars from storage (a precariously  balanced box in the spare room) and cleared off the mantlepiece and it was ready to go. I kept last year’s list of activities on my computer so I changed a few of them but a lot of them have stayed the same.

Boo was excited to see them although he doesn’t seem to remember anything about them from last year.

We played for quite a while with the contents of jar number one and then he asked for the next one!

I’ll do a post in a few days with the contents of the first few jars. I love to hear from you, the comments are disabled at the moment so come over and chat on facebook or send me an email.

Link to last year’s advent 

Days 1-7

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Sensory Box – Construction

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Beth at Bamm Boo

Sooooo, starting up a crafting business at the same time as completely removing our child from childcare was possibly not the most sensible idea I’ve ever had! We’re muddling along fine as usual but in some ways I’m doing less with him than I was when I was working.

We finally got around to another sensory box today. I saw this idea somewhere and I thought I’d pinned it but I didn’t so I can’t find the orginial.

It’s basically the same as our previous construction box but with the addition of a cutlery draw insert to make roads.

The nice thing about this one is that we made it together rather than me setting it up and presenting it to him. He played with it for a fair while which gave me loads of time to panic about my broken sewing machine.

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