Arts and Crafts Corner - Homemade 'Moon Sand'

May has been unseasonably miserable, with a ridiculous amount of rain, so when you can't even guarantee a dry day this summer, what do you do with the kids?

You make 'Moon Sand'!




'Moon Sand' is a mouldable play sand, think wet sand at the beach, that doesn't dry out and is always re-mouldable.

The children can help you make this, it only requires 2 ingredients, which most people will already have available to them in their homes right now!

Ingredients

5 cups of Plain/All Purpose Flour
1 cup of Baby Oil

Method

Bung it all in a bowl and mix until it forms a silky bread crumb like mixture.





Couldn't be simpler, right?

Now have fun building and moulding with your children!

Hair Bear Bunch: Style of the week!

This weeks hairstyle is super easy and cute.

All three of my daughters regularly ask for this hairstyle. And it gives gorgeous relaxed wavey curls to their hair the next day!

This is a 'High Pony, with 4 Spiral Twists'

Meal Plan Monday! - 14/05/2012

Welcome to the start of yet another week.
After a blissfully dry and sunny weekend, we are back to the standard grey, wet and cold weather that we are all too used to here in Blighty!
This weeks menu is as follows:
Monday: Sausage and Pea Rossotto
Tuesday: Jacket Potatoes
Wednesday: Vegetable Casserole with Herby Dumplings
Thursday: *Chicken and Tomato Couscous
Friday: Cod and homemade chips
Saturday: Cheese and Tomato Pasta Bake
Sunday: *Chicken Roast Dinner

* denotes cooking double quantities to save time in the kitchen for another meal.

Baking: Vanilla and Strawberry Cupcakes.

What are you cooking this week?

Silent Sunday