Just a quicky because I’ve been a bit lax lately and I know a few of you check back regularly to see what we’ve been up to (Hi Mom!)
Lately we’ve been mainly going on trips on a cardboard train.
One of the great things about having a three year old is if I tell him it’s a train then it’s a train; it doesn’t have to be fancy just functional.
As I said last month I’m trying to increase our play dough repertoire – there’s only so many pizzas we can make before I want to stab myself in the eyes. When I saw this post on Playing House I knew it was perfect – we love Mr Potato head around here.
We ended up with lots of silly creatures.
and we already had everything to hand – so no big effort required.
Other play dough posts
Eli has just started saying this and I love it. It feels like a new developmental phase that is getting us closer to, “Look what I made.”
So far we’ve made a crown – sometimes he’s a king sometimes a fairy princess. We built a castle out of lego and I made crowns for the lego people
We’ve also made a rocket to go to the moon.
They’re not pretty or especially clever but we made them together and Eli loves them!
Here’s a hoodie I made for my niece
Eli makes a pretty willing model at the moment – I don’t know how long that will last
It has a pink horn and a fluffy pink mane.
I’m in the process of setting up a new website to sell these. If you want to be kept informed check back here or send me an email beth @ lysozyme. net
School’s out for summer! For various reasons I’m not going back to work for the time being so this is the first day of my new life as a Stay at Home Mum!! It’s kind of scary, last time I was home full time E. was 18 months old. I’m planning on gradually getting into a routine over the next few weeks and I’ve got some exciting plans for this blog and my sewing.
For now, we’re staying close to home and enjoying the sunshine while it lasts. This month’s sensory box is definitely reserved for outdoor play
I got the idea from At home with Ali I didn’t have any sand and I wanted the box to last more than a day or two so the sand is actually Cloud Dough. It’s one part baby oil to eight parts flour. It’s moldable kind of like wet sand. Hopefully once we’re bored of the beach the cloud dough will still be good enough to play with.
I added some shells and a little castle from a sandcastle set. The people had beach towels made of fabric scraps and I pulled out a little spade from our construction lego set.
I put the sea into a metal tray to keep it separate from the sand. I put some glass beads and turtles in with water mixed with blue food colouring
The people had a nice time relaxing on the beach.
Then headed out for a little swim (they haven’t all drowned honestly).
After a good hour or so E. decided the people needed a boat to sit in so we found a pot from our collection/junk pile.
This was another cheap box, I only paid for the baby oil and flour – if you have a sand pit already it would be free!
