"Six little rabbits!!"

Wow, what a fun little museum!  Miss E spent most of the time ahhhing at all the displays.  She loved Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle Duck, I thought Jeremy Fisher and of course Old Brown were the best, and we were both a little disappointed we didn't get to see slimy old Mr Jackson the toad annoying Mrs Tittlemouse in her once tidy house.  Tiddly widdly widdly!!!

If you are ever nearby with young (or older!) Beatrix Potter fans I definitely recommend a visit to The World of Beatrix Potter.

Princess Penelope and the Runaway Kitten

Miss E chose this lovely book from the library a few weeks ago.  I am always a sucker for a knitting theme so we both enjoyed reading this one!  The kitten reminded us, more than a little bit, of our ginger wool thief Merlin.

I love her outfit, the illustrator has got 4 year old girls down to a tee.  Miss E is often found wearing a random selection of dressing up clothes and wellies!

If its not available at your local library the book is available on Amazon here.

Dr Seuss

If I am honest I have never really been a fan of Dr Seuss, I didn't really like his books as a child and hadn't been keen to read them to Mr T and Miss E.  Then a few months back I saw a video on Youtube from The Burning Man Festival of The Places You'll Go, and after many more viewings I absolutely love it!  We now have a copy of the book (thanks Mum) and as the children enjoyed it, and as our Home Ed group were planning on a Dr Seuss day we borrowed a few more books from the library and had a go at a few Seuss inspired activities.

Here are our "Wockets in the pockets"  Mr T did the middle one and the one on the left (he was keen to do two, which is rare as he isn't hugely keen on drawing and writing, think it was the stapler that won him over!).  Miss E did the one on the right, she drew her wockets and cut them out all herself!  Miss E really loved the book, she is at that age when rhyming words are a huge source fun.

We also added some funny feet to these creatures!  I had planned to make some playdoh wockets like these I found here but we ran out of time and energy in the end.  We will save them for another day.

Carrot soup

The kids favourite soup is this one from a very old and tatty Cranks book.

As you can see it has been very well used, especially the soup section as its a sure fire way to get my two to eat lots of veg.  Their favourite at the moment is Carrot Pottage, I reckon I could make it every day and it would still be gobbled up by both of them.

Mr T loved carrot soup so much when he was a toddler my mum bought him this lovely book.

It is a simple story about rabbit planting and growing his carrots and waiting patiently until they are ready to make carrot soup.  Its nice and short (so great for bedtime stories on tired evenings!) and I love the illustrations.

Roald Dahl Day

On Thursday it was Roald Dahl day so at our Home Ed group the children did Dahl themed activities.  They invented new creatures with a "Creature Creater", decorated cakes to look like Mrs Twit's glass eye (and ate them of course) and made their own Roly Poly birds.  Some friends brought in a Mugglewump sock monkey they had made and both Miss E and Mr T loved it so we took a copy of the instructions.  Now we just need to find some socks and get sewing.  Mr T suggested using some of his Dads old socks but as Mr Man wears them until they fall apart (plus smelly man feet...bleugh!) I said we would buy some new ones especially!