Cornish Mama

Who doesn't love a rock pool?! Yesterday, we made salt dough creatures and last night I painted them using acrylics so today I put them to goos use and made a rock pool invitation to play for Zach for this weeks #yesbebemission !  I used Josh's Ocamora Techniques (I bought them for his Birthday as a present from Zach so they could do them together)  buy them here!  and made a circle out on the around a bunched up blue sensory silk! I then placed the salt dough creatures and stones in the middle and placed around!  Zach loved it and was straight in there, picking up all the animals, exploring the rocks and telling me what they were! He was particularly fond of the fish and starfish as he loves looking at fish (we have a fish tank and its his favourite thing to do) and he loves shape of a star! It didn't take him long to work out there was two star fish's and 2 fish so he liked pairing them up!  Zach also enjoyed stacking the salt dough cre...

This weeks #yesbebemission is based on the sea so as well as some awesome stacks, we today have made some salt dough creatures (for an ITP for tomorrow) & some sea blue slime! Yes Bebe shared a recipe for salt dough yesterday on their IG post so I made some this morning, my son helped to mix it and my cousin (who i look after once a week during summer) made some creatures! Zach loved playing with the dough and found it really fun to roll up and pat together, to be fair he liked it more than I thought he would! We made a combination of animals and some pebbles so that tomorrow I can create a rock pool! We made a jellyfish, crab, a couple fish, an anemone, some starfish, snail and some pebbles so there was a good mix just like you'd find in good rock pool. I've been painting them this evening using some acrylics to bring them to life! We also made a slime mixture today which was a huge hit with the 9 year and Zach loved playing with it after it was made! The textu...

Who doesn't love rainbow rice?! Last time I made rainbow rice, I tried the white vinegar and food colouring recipe, it was great BUT it turned out more of a pastel rainbow which was gorgeous but I wanted bright! So I tried the paint recipe and it worked beautifully, my OH's cousin helped as she is with me one day a week through out the summer holidays!  We poured the rice into a plastic tub, added some paint and shook until it was all covered and did the same with every colour until they were all done and we put them in the sun on the tuff tray to dry out, turning occasionally to make sure it was all dry! Obviously if you don't have time for this, some places have it readily made  Tiny Land Rainbow Rice (7)   Tiny Land Rainbow Rice (5) I paired it with all the rainbows, including, our grant palos, Lanka Kade animals, Rainbow Ned, Walnut Ned and our Grimms 6 piece rainbow! I also used a couple of our tuff tray bits, like a small bucket and ...

We are going on a bug hunt, we're going to catch a big one!  Today we went to Tehidy woods here in Camborne, Cornwall and we took our trusty bag (which I made from Frugi fabric) full of some of our favourite toys, perfect for a bug hunt! We pulled our wellies on, stuck our waterproofs on and off we wandered, Zach loves a puddle and in all honesty, he would've been really happy just in one puddle but we walked around and explored a bit as we were with family! The toys we took with us! We took our Lanka Kade bugs, Bee Happy Ned, Tickit Magnifying glass and a MDF camera shape which I painted myself as Zach loves taking toy photos! These bugs I think may be Zach's favourite Lanka Kade range for stacking and playing with as I think they're quite small and therefore easier to balance! He loves to find a log, balance them all on it, move them along it and then knock them all off and he literally spends ages doing that!  We also took Bee Happy Ned who ...