Pumpkin Gloop

We carved our pumpkins on Tuesday, it seemed a shame to throw away the slimy, stringy insides of the pumpkins, so I gave it to M to explore!

After a while I added some cornflour, and Albie poured in some orange coloured water to mix together to make 'gloop'.  M wasn't so sure about the cornflour in its powdered form, but he loved it once the water was added!  H couldn't resist and had to join in too!

M got quite messy, but it was worth it for the enjoyment factor!

Can you tell I'm excited about my holiday?????

(apologies for the rubbish post, but what a cute photo!)

Foam Blocks

Another of our new resources - foam blocks that look like wood!  Genius, as when M decides to throw one half way across the room, it won't actually hurt anyone or do any damage!


J and M were keen to investigate them - I had to remind M a few times not to chew the blocks (he would be able to chew chunks of them off, and as well as spoiling the blocks, this obviously poses a choking hazard!)

J asked me to build him a "tower" and a "bridge" and a "castle"!  What do you think?  J was very impressed!

Unfortunately the 'tower-bridge-castle' got knocked over, so I challenged J to re-build it!

This block caused the collapse of J's wonderful creation, so he had to start yet again!

I think J did a fantastic job!

Halloween Biscuits

It has been a while since I did any baking with the children.  M was asleep and Albie was at pre-school, so J and I decided to make some Halloween biscuits.


J helped to mix the ingredients together...

Then he got stuck in with his hands making a gooey dough....

With great dexterity J then rolled out the dough and used the cutters to make biscuits.  I helped to put the biscuits on the baking tray, but other than a little guidance J did practically everything himself!

As the biscuits were baking J helped to wash the dishes!

Once the biscuits had cooled, J decorated them with orange icing sugar and chocolate sprinkles.

J made the biscuits with only a small amount of interference guidance from myself, and he seemed to really enjoyed himself.


(the biscuits were scrummy by the way!)

Painted Pumpkins

J and M had lots of fun painting their pumpkins (although J was insistent that his pumpkin outline was an apple!) with sponge dabbers.

Once the paint was dry J glued on the mouth, nose and eyes to create Halloween pumpkins - don't they look great!