Good Friday

Good Friday has mostly consisted of this:

We made our THIRD batch of tasty chocolate mini egg nest cakes this week...

We had a fish supper at Mum's/nanny's  - this has been a tradition in our family for years - does anybody else do this?! And we also went to a 'What makes Good Friday good' service at our local church where we made these sweet bookmarks. Each color bead means a different thing. 

...followed by a sleepover! 

Lighting fires and forest school easter egg hunts...

Weird weather lately - it snowed last night and today it was blissfully sunny. When we arrived at forest school with our friends Matthew and Sarah and their mum Mary there were patches of snow which looked pretty with the sunshine falling onto it...

This was our third session at The Woodland Play center and Acey is getting so much out of it already! Today the children gathered sticks and lit the fire, used a special tool to cut long branches, made mossy bunny ears and noses, went on a magic Easter egg hunt, drank hot chocolate, made chocolate cornflake nest cakes. But Acey's favorite thing was the special bushcraft tool for lighting fires, he spent almost the two hours we were there making sparks with it and developed a real knack! He loved it so much that he decided he wants to save his pocket money for one... if anyone else is interested, you can get them here...

http://www.thebushcraftstore.co.uk/bushcraft--survival-fire-lighting-steel---choice-of-sizes-824-p.asp

Easter crafts

So here I am blogging again...mainly for family and friends to see what we are getting up to. So many people are skeptical of our home ed choice, but hopefully this will encourage some people that we DO socialize, we aren't recluses, we DO learn things, and we actually have fun in the process ;) and it IS possible for a single mother on a low income to home ed!

It's almost Easter time so we have been doing some fun Easter crafts. There is much debate about the origins of Easter, but this is now a time of faith for us, to focus on the amazing story of Yeshua's death and resurrection which brings much joy and thanksgiving in our lives...

We had great fun yesterday making salt dough Easter eggs. We walked around the park gathering branches so that we could study tiny spring buds opening up on our nature table, and they are really effective with the salt dough eggs hanging from them...

An easy salt dough recipe is: 2 cups flour, 1 cup table salt, 1 cup water... mix into a dough and knead for ten minutes, and then it's ready to roll out. Bake in the oven on a low temp until they are golden brown and hard. We used an egg shaped cutter and then painted them in bright colors with pretty stipes and spots.

Acey also made some lovely Easter cards

Now if only the weather would be more springlike!!

Home Education Awareness Campaign (UK)

                                                                                                                                                                                                   
TThere is an amazing network of home educating parents on facebook, and one particular lady has gathered together lots of our photos of some of our favorite home ed moments with our children and made this lovely inspiring informative video!

Six.

I am now the mother of a six year old. Already he is refering to things that have happened before he turned six as ''you know..ages ago, like when I was five''  Time flies when you're having fun :)

Birthday treasure hunt in the woods with friend Jacob...

Mmmm...treasure...(home made jam tarts)...

Birthday sleepover...pretending to be in space...

 Party.....

 

A busy week! Second sleepover of the week...two little boys sound asleep in bed.

*yawn*

Free range summer ramblings

A trip to Woody Bay, Devon with Bruno where we took all our clothes off and were wild, naked and free in the sea...

Green scythe fayre Somerset

 A visit to Tinkers Bubble community, which was full of friendly people, sweet little houses, lots of land, a steam powered saw, apple press, beehives, blissful living!

 A sunny day at Great Wood with three naked boys paddling in the steam and running around in the long grass whilst mammas made waldorf puppets.

Lots of time spent in the woods and meaddows...

We found a dear little bird nest fallen from the tree, perfect for our summer table...

Allotment is doing well...

...and we witnessed a real actual fire from our window. How's that for homeschooling?

Oh, and I am now a self employed mamma. Pretty scary!!!
Blissful sunshine summer blessings xxx

The beautiful Isles of Scilly

Haven't blogged in a while! We have been away at sea, to the beautiful Isles of Scilly with our friend David. We stayed on a farm and got to watch the calfs being fed, we did lots of walking, saw some seals, and spent lots of time on the beach. It is a very beautiful place.

The ocean calls to my selkie soul, and we HAVE to go back there!!!