Bonfire night fun

This morning we took a trip out to Makro, lots of questions asked and answered!

Lots about these lobsters! Lol! 

Big bee before we went, *fixing* the chair with his tool kit.

And his bird he made, all on his own.

Back from makro and on to some firework craft.

Cutting toilet rolls to make a stamp.

More stamping/imprinting was done with a fork plus painted fireworks. And of course glitter!

Once all the stamping was done she cut the other end of the toilet roll so both sides the same and turned them into firework decorations!

Meanwhile little bee had other ideas. Getting 'hands on'

Blowing paint blobs with a straw.

Hand splatter firework 'stamping' ;-)

Big bee has been keen to do this for a while after seeing a video on it.

Dancing 'fireworks' on milk.

Milk in first, then drops of food colouring. All is still till you add the dish soap. (Its Meant to then dance)

Unfortunately it wasn't very impressive. No idea why but still, they seemed happy enough.

They enjoyed making 'milkshake' with the remains! Lol!

Family bonfire night tea!

We had planned a bonfire but as it was raining we made do with having sparklers near the wood burner. Very good plan! Was lovely!

Chestnuts!

And lastly a little picture summarising the night! :-)

Bowling trip

Started the morning off with our favourite worksheets. Touched on times tables on one of them. :-)

We then gathered ourselves and headed off to our first Unschooling meet up. It was at Hollywood bowl. The bees were so excited. Lots of new friends to make plus getting to see our buddies too.

They both really enjoyed the game, lovely to see them having such fun. 

Fab to see some older HE'd children too. Every time we've met up with older ones its so very obvious how different they are. So friendly, thoughtful, caring and respectful to the younger ones plus to the adults. A pleasure to see. We've come across several older school children during our park visits and can't say we've had many nice encounters. They never have any time for little ones and certainly not for adults. If my two bees turn out anything like these lovely older children we met today I will be very chuffed.

The four lanes we took up!

Big bee is the top line on the left screen, She won!

After all the bowling fun we went over to nandos with our friends and all had a gorgeous lunch. Mmmm, love nandos! 

Wonderful day! 

Skeletons and fireworks

Some maths and English worksheets this morning..

Little bee started making sculptures from the maths beads. He was so proud of his creations. :-)

Then randomly big bee, with a little help from little bee, made this aeroplane! Love it!

Another sculpture!

Off to our friends via a quick sainsburys trip.. Both bees love playing with F and M and have lots of fun together. They are also loving getting to know there new little friends for the future, S and L. 

The gang!

Onto some crafty projects. Making a moving parts skeleton for the older two and making a skeleton on  card for the younger two. It worked really well.

We found a funny song on YouTube that was rather apt for this project.

The older ones skeletons 

And the younger ones..

The song! Fab catchy tune! 

Then onto our second crafty project- 3d fireworks!

Glitter time! 

Making wire spirals for the sparks..

All done!

Lovely day with our friends! 

Rat traps and fashion designing

Busy couple of days.. Made our first batch of lard! (From organic grass fed piggies)  I done most of this but the bees watched and took it all on board with lots of questions. Mainly from little bee who just kept asking could he eat it! Lol!

All done and set, with the crispy bits as treats for the dog/chickens

Packaged up and ready for fridge/freezer.

Chickens enjoying a few treats

Over the weekend daddy bee showed little bee how to set a rat trap in the chickens. This morning he'd found they had caught one. The bees were fascinated!

Cube sculptures!

Fashion designing.. Big bee drew loads of dresses and cut them out.

Meanwhile little bee helped me with the apple/pear crumbles..

Big bee couldn't resist joining in!

Then straight back to her dress designing. These are apparently available to order ;-) 

She drew little coat hangers and used blue tack to 'hang' them. She made people which the dresses fitted. Amazing, just love her imagination. She was so pleased and proud of herself. She dressed and undressed her little people lots and lots for the rest of the day.