Following on from our mushroom investigation we are looking at ferns and have found this lovely page in Plants That Never Ever Bloom. Here is Brisbane some ferns grow like weeds but they are still fascinating! Ferns have be around for 360 million years according to fossils but most of the plants we see appeared … More Ferns provocation
Having looked at Landforms we are ready to look at Biomes of the world. I used these cards from Carrots are Orange. We were able to relate them to books about the Biome where we live in Queensland which has temperate and tropical rainforests, wetlands, desert and some spectacular volcanic core mountain ranges. There is so much … More Biomes
We have been in the sand pit to make lakes and islands etc. so here are some more activities to explore the different landforms on our planet Earth. This book is really interesting to us because the landforms are all Australian. We have also worked through lots of activities for land, air and water. Here … More Landforms including volcanos
We have had a bit of rain in sunny Brisbane recently and these beauties have been popping up all over the place. Natures very own provocation scattered about for us to discover. (We found the selection in the top middle picture at the grocers on special.) The Plants-That-Never-Ever-Bloom book is out again. Love these amazing pictures! … More Mushroom provocation
This is a lovely fine motor activity to do in preparation for Easter.
We are preparing for St Patrick’s Day on Saturday 17th March. My Irish friend loves to eat her bread slathered with butter. She butters it, takes a bight then butters the bight and so on. It’s a good thing she plays a lot of hockey! I decided to write up the recipe with pictures so … More Irish Soda Bread for St Patrick’s Day
On Friday 16th February we celebrated Chinese New Year. Its a big year for us as my son and I are both Dogs and this is the year of the Dog. The end of the celebrations are marked by the Lantern Festival Find some red and gold thin card or thick paper. Fold it in half length … More Chinese New Year lanterns
These gum nuts litter the road, gutters and front lawn at the moment and I am desperate to think of 100’s of activities to find something to do with them. They are great in clay so a fair few end up as eyes and ears and if you can find a few still attached to … More Rain sticks
For St Andrews Day on the 30th November we always like to make a Scottish activity to celebrate my husband’s country of birth. The same activity could always come out for Burn’s Night celebrations on the 25th January too or any time you are studying Scotland! People often associate tartan with Christmas if you wanted … More Scottish tartan dominos
Its Spring and the birds and the insects are out and about. The Magpies are swooping and singing and their black and white feathers can be found all over. This is a lovely activity to make a simple bird to decorate your nature table, make a mobile or fly about. You could go to town … More Making birds
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