Thursday, 29 November 2012

This month (November)

November is nearly over and it's time for a quick catch-up of what we've been up to this month.


Autumn walks in the woods


 (with home-made dart shooters)


Visits to home ed group to do Chemistry, Spanish, Art, Arts Award (and time for dd to sneak off and play on the communal computer)


Bat-themed activities


Bat origami

Online bat jigsaws (here )


Putting together a festive mini-swap for Worldwide Culture Exchange (sent to the USA). Pick three to five items representing Christmas/The Winter holidays in your family and send it to another family. Mini-swap sign-up form can be found here (festive mini-swap open til the end of November)


Digging for dinosaurs in a wolf suit (thank you 99p shop!)



Playing lego games

 Fungal foraging



 And spore printing



 
 Enjoying outdoor times with friends



Looking at lichen


Sewing Christmas decorations and printing cards


Making a mobile of the solar system (printable here)


Ds digs up our area in the name of archaeology (and finds pottery, nails, bones and a medieval tile painted with a griffin) 


Leaf rubbings



Making a printer out of Lego Mindstorms




Artwork (experimenting with symmetry)


 Trip to Aldeburgh Poetry Festival (me, without the children). Hence plenty of time to take arty photographs...

Fencing competitions


Bug handling workshops


2 comments:

Lily said...

Love the spore printing! How did you do that? Was it just ordinary black paper or special in some way?

Big mamma frog said...

Yes just lay them gill-side-down on black paper somewhere warm and dry for a couple of days. You might need to slice the stalk off to sit them on the paper. Most of the ones that we collected have white spores but you can get ones with dark spores too.