Sidney's super secret science!

As you entered the church for this years holiday club you might think that you had entered the wrong building as you found yourself in a child's bedroom....

But lurking behind the bookcase....

Lay a secret tunnel, leading to ....

Sidney's secret lab!

 

 

Here the children, explored the miracles of Jesus through drama, music and stories. Sidney tried to do experiments but was sabotaged by the evil inspector Munch!

Each room also had a science theme - my group was the hazardous lab!

In our groups we managed to do some experiments that did work! Exploring paper chromatography, reacting acids and alkalis to produce CO2, secret writing and caramelisation, water tension, ph scales and

Slime!

We won belly flops ( mutated jelly beans!) for contributing to the group and for learning daily signs and memory verses.

I love being creative in prayer so we explored ways of talking to God, flip flop prayers, glo balloon prayer,

Thank you fish, even chromatography prayer!
We explored the stories we had learnt about ....

Using a scientific approach - what should have happened , what did we expect to happen. What actually happened and so what - what can we learn, what relevance might the story have for me?

We made crafts,

Kaleidescope

Weaving

Glass painting, as well as log boats and bead fish!

Mad, noisy, fun!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still baking!

But time to blog that's the problem! So here' s snap shot of the last few months - cakes for all seasons!

Black Forest cup cake with fresh cream

Owl cup cakes for owl class obviously!

Pudding in the park! Just a few of the 600 cakes served at the village picnic!

Experimenting with chai latte!

Treble chocolate cookies - they don't hang around long!

Rocky road - just yum!

Baby shower - for a boy obviously!

I forgot to photograph them in the mayhem of school mornings - so no single shots I'm afraid!

Off camping Sunday and have the urge to bake, nothing like freshly baked cakes - however with the instruction to pack less I might have to resist!

 

 

 

 

Feeding their imagination.....

Thanks to a lovely friend we got to tour a vetinary hospital on Wednesday, the girls got to see everything, from x rays, to pet wards, treatment rooms, pharmacy and even the operating theatre. As Sophie left she exclaimed best day EVER!

The following two days have been spent playing 'Junior Vet' ! Hours of fun, admitting their patients, writting charts, x rays with the results being examined on computer, surgery, bandaging, and of course after care, before being cleaned up and sent home. It would be wrong to suggest there were no arguments, fights or threats of sacking, but overall compared to an average day it was peaceful.

 

 

Reception

Ward

 

X ray

Reading the charts

 

Treatment and tlc!

Owner notified that their pet is ready for collection!

The following day they added a cafe! It was just lovely to see them using their imagination to create an amazing game.

 

Easter Fun!

The girls had a friend round today, so it was a good time to grab my box of Easter goodies I purchased when they were k sold off cheap last year !

The girls played really nicely to be fair, but it is hard to share, especially when it comes to sharing a friend! So it was good having a few diversions at hand!

The first one wasn't one of the bargains but it was great fun! The girls placed some baking parchment over an egg template and used some blu tack to hold it in place, they then placed a large desert spoon of melted chocolate in the centre ( I used a combination of candy melts and dairy milk) They used spoons and kebab sticks to push the chocolate into shape using the template as their guide.
Next came the fun bit! I provided a selection of sprinkles and sweets and they got stuck in decorating their eggs.

I also provided a pipe bag filled with white chocolate for them to experiment with.

We discovered it was quite tricky to move the egg with the stick in place so we moved them into the kitchen and carefully added the stick.

Rebecca's eggs were simple but look great!

Sophie had a go at piping a rabbit!

And mine!
This is one activity we will be doing again!
So once we were all cleaned up from the chocolate creations it was time to make Easter Bonnets ( for the village competition Saturday )

Buying up cut price Easter craft materials last year meant that I had lots of goodies for them to choose from, without having to spend a fortune.

Not forgetting the grown ups competition!

Beautifully modelled by Sophie!

So all our creations made a trip to the play park completed the day of perfectly!

Just for fun: Decopatch

..... Or paper mache to you and me!!

When this craft hit the shops it looked amazing, beautiful racks of thin paper, self varnishing glue, and inspiring paper shapes to decorate.

I do love the papers, and the shapes, but is gets expensive especially when the girls want to join in! So let me let you in on a secret .... It doesn't have to be! You can cover anything! The self varnishing glue? - pva works equally well, and here's the best bit ... tissue paper works and it's so much cheaper!! How did I discover this? Well having spent hours wandering round hobbycraft looking for their Union Jack Decopatch paper which they had used to decorate a pillar I finally asked if they still had any ... The response - it's tissue paper!

And kids can do it well! Which is useful when they announce that they need to decorate a bottle for school, Sophie wants to make it into a dog and it has to be handed in tomorrow! Paint is quick but doesn't cover plastic well so Decopatch it is!

We tried recycling a brown paper bag for Sophie's dog but it was too thick but we did manage to use the handles for legs!

I am not sure if it counts as recycling if you have to empty the milk into a jug in order to use the bottle!

Once they were covered the children got chased to bed, finishing their animals off early next morning!

Annie created a flying sausage cat!

Sophie a puppy called Su

And Rebecca a pig!

So despite having the activity thrust upon me it turned out to be a couple of hours working together as a family to create something together which was totally worth the late bedtime and morning rush!!