Sensory Box March – Ice Cream Shop

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Beth at Bamm Boo

I got the idea from Counting Coconuts (I love that blog!)

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Contents:

About 30 wool pom poms in a plastic food tray

2 ice cream cone shaped bowls and spoons from Matalan

4 mini plastic bowls

Ice cream scoop

Small pom poms (sprinkles) 

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Little circles of foam sheet from the hole punch when I made the lacing cards

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Ice lollies – felt and colour coded lolly sticks. My sister ‘made’ these for Eli when we did a mini busy bag swap. By made I mean gave me all of the stuff to sew together myself!

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Eli loved it, we’ve made ice creams all afternoon

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We had lots of customers.

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Including some phone orders.

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Cost: I don’t knit so I had to buy the wool, I bought a mixed pack of roll ends from eBay for £7 and the come shaped bowls cost £4. The special bowls aren’t strictly necessary, you could make cones out of card.

I’m thinking I might add in some menus, order sheets and money later on in the month.

Edit:Update and review here

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March’s Sensory Box sneak peek

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Beth at Bamm Boo

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I’ll let you in on the secret tomorrow 🙂

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My Mothers’ day in pictures

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Beth at Bamm Boo

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Flowers,

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chocolates

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and an afternoon to myself.

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Broken needle.

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BBC I-player.

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My muse.

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Ears and horns.

Another hoodie finished I’ll post proper pictures when my model comes home.

 

Hope you had a good one.

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Mothers’ Day Card

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Beth at Bamm Boo

Inspiration here

I really like the simplicity of the one I pinned but I didn’t have any white wool so I went with a springtime version

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I used self adhesive felt that my sister in law got me for christmas (as part of a section of crafty things she’d chosen). It was quite fiddly to work with so nothing is quite straight. One of the problems with taking photos of things I’ve made is it gives me plenty of time to notice all of the mistakes I’ve made!)

I also ‘made’ this simple birthday card for my brother. Men’s cards are tricky. I had these plain note cards but they seemed so dull so I cut out extra circles and backed them with craft paper I think it’s pretty effective, I might get around to adapting the pack in the same way!

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Birthday Cake

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Beth at Bamm Boo

Today is Ben’s birthday – he is 16 days younger than me. Eli and I made him a carrot cake. Eli’s pretty fun to bake with lately; he’s vaguely able to follow instructions and he gets really excited about it.

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He is not good at waiting though so as soon as it was iced we had to put the candles in and get singing.

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I think he may be confused as to whose birthday it is!

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The recipe was from The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook it tastes great and was easy to make.

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