bees, experiments, trees & curly writing

Tess decided to do a honey bee lapbook (mini project) that some other children in one of our home ed groups were working on .....

Growing cress .......

Brodie in the (very long) cardboard box (and one plastic box) train he made ..... hours and hours and hours of fun ......

Tess preparing a crystal growing kit .....

Painting Brodie's room .....

Finding out what happens when you hang twirlers over candles/hot air .....

Making vehicles from a construction set .....

Hunting for Easter eggs .....

..... and making Easter chocolates ......

Making some sort of concoction in the kitchen ( I forget if this was a cooking experiment or a science one ..... sometimes it's hard to tell the difference!) .....

Climbing trees and slides .......

Tess wrote this beautiful envelope for her friend Grace - she designed the writing all by herself, and also made made the foiled crown (and foiled princesses inside the envelope). We bumped into Grace in the village square on our way to deliver the envelope, and Grace was thoroughly delighted with the gift......

More cakes ......