the hawk and the firecat: April 2012

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Acorn Necklace

This was from last Autumn, we collected acorn tops, painted them, pierced them and strung them together. The necklace stayed together all of 5 minutes before a certain somebody insisted on having it and promptly pulling it apart!

The Scariest Ferris Wheel

Whenever he does something that can't be disturbed by a crazed 2 year old, we try to set her up with something similar so she feels like she is doing the same thing. Not that it lasts long before she wants to do something else but it buys him some time anyway!

He loves to play with this stuff - it's Lego WeDo Robotics. You can build so many different things with it and then hook it up to the computer to program it. The software has really easy drag and drop programming and is a pretty cool introduction to this sort of thing. Lots and lots of learning wrapped up in fun.

The first program he did for the ferris wheel was way too fast, I think the poor mini figs would have been feeling very sick! He soon figured out how to slow it down and give them a nice cruisy ride though.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Easter Nests

These were really quick and easy to make, the nests are just shredded coconut mixed into melted chocolate, spooned into a lined shallow muffin tray (actually I am not sure what the tray I used is really for but it has little circles in it!) The eggs were speckled jelly bean eggs.

Play Dough

Last time we made play dough, we used this recipe -

1 cup flour
1 cup water
1/4 cup salt
1 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tsp cream of tarter
food colour

It worked beautifully but today we needed to make more and decided to do jelly play dough using basically the same recipe just swapping food colouring out and jelly crystals in.