Xmas cookies

It's a wet wet wet Sunday in Brisbane, I have to work this afternoon and I have a 2 yr old stuck inside (because it keeps raining and storming!) So we printed some Christmas colouring ins for her. Googled cookie recipes and we made http://www.marthastewart.com/338471/basic-sugar-cookies.
Used our Christmas cookie cutters and had my little apprentice help me!

Cloud sand!

After a nasty storm this morning, fun under cover play is needed! Bring on cloud sand - 6cups plain flour, 3/4 cup baby oil. Mix together until its clumps and stays moulded.

We played with ours in the water play table!

Fizzy colours

Bicarb + vinegar + food dye = fizzy colours!
Sadly this activity was shorter lived than I  hoped for! after realising using a spoon was too slow, Lumpy decided to just tip the colours into the bicarb and mix! She did love that it fizzed and reacted, so atleast she noticed that!

Lumpy decided to just dump the bicarb into the colour!

Plane trip fun....

The past 10 days were spent in cold but amazingly beautiful New Zealand. The holiday was amazing. We will be going back at some stage to see the North Island.
The return plane trips with a 2.5 yr old lumpy were a little stressful even with careful planning and organising!
Little snap lock bags of activities, food, and inflight entertainment all helped. I either got new toys/ borrowed finger puppets, or hid old toys for a month or so before our trip.

Worlds most beautiful ballerina

Lumpy has been doing pre ballet gentle movements since July. She loves it!

Free water play ground

Rocks Riverside park (info here)   Is a great park for kids. It has a water area, a few different play grounds with equipment aimed at different ages and stages of development (you try and tell Lumpy she can't climb the huge rope structure!) Parking is free, making it a cheap and fun day out.


We got there just before 9, and by 920 the place had filled up!

having a swim.

walking in on of the little pools

After a swim, we decided it was time to go on a pixie hunt! sadly no Pixies were found. We did how ever find ducks and a vegetable garden!

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All this swimming and pixie hunting makes us hungry!

Have a great week.

Jelly ice blocks

With a 29°  spring day approaching I looked for great ice block ideas and found one where you used jelly crystals and ice block molds.
I don't have ice block molds so used silicon dinosaur cake shaped molds and craft ice block sticks!
These ice blocks do not melt easily either so less mess for mummy!

Ice block sticks in the molds

Jelly crystals

Adrady for the freezer

These worked very well, tasted great (just like jelly on a stick!) and didn't melt all over the floor.