Notes to myself

There are quite a few things that I need to start thinking about and organising, but I never get round to writing them down and consequently forget about them at a drop of a hat. As the idea of this blog is to become my online notebook, I have decided to bite the bullet and start listing things down (with links) as I think of them. So please excuse some varied posts.

SUMMER HOLIDAYS
Browsing the Skip to my Lou website reminded me that the summer holidays are looming. Last year, for the first time, I came up with quite a few activities from my LOs (now age 7 and 3) rather than having nothing planned and everyone driving each other up the wall. It worked really well and although we didn't do masses, we had some lovely memerable days and most of all we had lots of fun! This summer I want to do the same but I also want to have a few more ideas up my sleeve. Last year we..........

Full sized pictures of ourselves on wallpaper

Bubble Blowing Session

Make Gloop

Paving Slab Chalk Drawings

Paper Mache Rockets (we'll probably go for something different this year)

Visit a Museum

Baking Day

Make Playdoh

Visit the Wildlife Park

Visit the Library

All of it was really successful and fun. This year also on the agenda is -

• Firstly a 'Mum I'm Bored Jar'. This is a fab idea to keep LOs entertained, this will be the first thing I do!! There is also a paper fortune teller which is similar.
• Painting Stones (making stone pets)
• Making Tie Rattle Snakes
• Potato Printing
• Puffy Paints
• Paper Kites for windy days
• Juice box boats

That's it for now, I'll be adding to it as and when.