Hobbsy's House

Hobbsy's House

Friday 29 June 2012

Artibods Swansea/Waterfront Nippers

Elin and I just got back from the monthly Waterfront Nippers session at the Waterfront Museum in Swansea. Run by Artibods it takes place on the last Friday of every month and has different themes and activities for preschoolers. This week the theme was 'cars' and we made a Car Air Freshener out of felt and essential oils (I'll definitely be trying that one at home at some point!) did some sticking and gluing, painting and playdoh. It's all free and lots of fun for little ones!

Tuesday 26 June 2012

'Cloud Dough'/homemade Moon Sand

Another day, another idea stolen from my favourite blog The Imagination Tree. It's basically just flour and glitter mixed with oil...it turns into a Moon Sand like substance and the kids LOVED it. They played with it for a good 40 minutes, we made 'sandcastles', they filled cups and bowls with 'ice cream' for me and we used some of my Moon Sand moulds. It just looks like a grey mess from the pictures but is actually quite pretty and sparkly in the flesh and so easy and quick to mix up.




Wednesday 20 June 2012

Chocolate playdough heaven!

Some of my favourite blogs have been posting lots of great playdough ideas in the last few weeks. It inspired me to do something a little bit different, so we used a recipe on Nuturestore and made some 'chocolate' playdough.

At first I set up it up as 'mud' with some pebbles and tractors for my 3 year old mindee to play with:



This was fun but nowhere near as big a hit as making cakes and chocolates with it was:


 Even my older 2 had great fun with this one.

We'll definitely be taking the Playdough Pledge next week and finding more interesting recipes to use!