This morning we got outside. I had some work I wanted to do in the garden so while I moved a bunch of branches and swept the driveway of all the mulch and bark, the kids decided some of the branches looked like "horses" so rode around for a while and brushed and fed their horses.

I then decided to dig over a garden bed in preparation for making a bean tepee in a few months time. I then constructed the tepee from the bamboo poles that were lying around from a previous tepee.

The kids were busy in the sandpit making a water collection system that dammed and then would supply the house. It then turned into a mud-mountain that then bacame a mud-oven for cooking meatballs.

After lunch and watching a video I started reading an abridged version of A Midsummer Nights Dream from one of our books. We only got through the first two pages before Nathan leapt up and wanted to copy out the story. So spent half an hour copy writing and illustrating a few paragraphs.

We then got out our Earthwise book to check out the winter activities but got distracted by the picture of a woven branch in the spring section which was another version of ones I'd read about here. We just used a variety of craft materials and the odd leaf and flower.

Then we moved on to another idea I'd picked up here and here. Danielle didn't want to do it initially but while sitting on my lap as I did it she was keen to have a go. This was fun and super easy for the kids and especially using the tapestry needles which aren't sharp (just as well for receiving hand me down crafting materials from my nana because I wouldn't normally have had these on hand...).


Both kids have been busy working in their new workbooks that nannie bought them a few days back.

A few extra pictures...

The other day Nathan was preparing the mud for making mud bricks back in ancient Egypt times.

And a pic of our nature table at the moment. A collection of birds nests, acorns, bricks found in the river over summer, a cool little pumpkin that arrived in our vege box and little pottery dish with some semi-precious stones.

The mama behind the blog with her newly trimmed (as in trimmed after not being cut for 18mths) long hair.

Nathan's been building quite a few Lego "solar powered" devices lately - a cell phone, computer and radio.