Learn out to make a witch and a Ghoul out of Chupa Chups Lollies.
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The Spiders Web Clock
For this clock you will need a circular piece of thin wood and the correct size of clock mechanism.
The web is made from long cocktail sticks and lolly sticks and the spiders are plastic ones I painted emerald green with nail varnish.
Acrylic paints and varnish.
To make:
First paint the board off white or pale cream using acrylics. While the paint is still wet brush on some olive greens and oranges from the centre out. Paint the numbers in olive green too.
Leave to dry and then varnish with a satin varnish.
Use the same olive green paint for the lolly sticks and the cocktail sticks.
Stick the lolly sticks on first then us the cocktail sticks to form a web kind of pattern between them.
I inserted the clock mechanism before sticking the lolly sticks and cocktail sticks in place to ensure the hands weren’t blocked .
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Bewitched Halloween Party Bags
Make these fun (and tasty) witches and ghouls in the blink of an eye !
Ideal as decorations and perfect for Halloween party bags.
All you need are a few CHUPA CHUPS lollies, some circles of fabric, small elastic bands or hair elastics.
Instructions:
Place the lolly in the centre of the fabric.
Secure with an elaśtic.
Stick on a couple of eyes and the ghoul is finished.
For the Witch make a little hat from black card or felt.
If you want your witch to have a broomstick you can make this from a simple stick of liquorice or a cola stick wrapped in black wool or pipe cleaners.
We pushed two liquorice spirals onto the lolly sticks for balance so they stayed the right way up when hung from the beam. This is also a nice touch for those children who want to keep their lolly ghoul intact as they can still enjoy a sweet treat!
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Perugia and the Mini Metro with Georgie and Alfie.
Perugia is famous for its amazing panoramic views, colourful history, its international universities, the many beautiful buildings and monuments and, of course, chocolate!
But for visiting children the initial big attraction will probably be the mini metro!
A ride on this mono rail is an experience not to be missed by anyone but especially if you are traveling with kids.
The mini metro runs between the parking areas and the Fontivegge train station to the Centro Storico or the centre of the old town. Tickets are just a couple of euros. Keep your entrance ticket as you need it to exit at the other end on the station. The trams run every few minutes. The most popular and largest parking spot is at the stadium and the mini metro is well sign posted. But you can choose to take an ordinary train from your nearest station and then hop onto the mini metro at Fontivegge.
I never take the car into Perugia. I can’t see the point. Parking is difficult and the streets are congested and you really do need to know exactly where you are going! Why get stressed out when it’s so easy to hop on to a train.
In under thirty minutes from the stations around the lake (Passignano, Castiglione, Magione ) you arrive at the outskirts of the city from where you can take a thrilling short journey on the mini metro followed by a series of escalators through the foundations of the old medieval fortress (La Rocca Paolis) up into the centre.
My advice would also be to take the kids down the escalators as well as up,because it is something that they will probably not experience anywhere else and great fun!
“La Rocca Paolis is the underground remains of an old fortress built by papal decree in the mid 1500s.
It offers an alternative route into Perugia is via escalators that takes you from parking at the city’s base, up through the foundations of this medieval fortress. During the Christmas season, this underground area is transformed into an arts-and-crafts market with music and entertainers. The kids will love it!
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An afternoon with Georgie and Alfie in Perugia
The video below gives a snapshot of the journey and a quick look at Perugia through the eyes of a child. It is only a snapshot! There is so much to see and do in Perugia! The museums, the art galleries, the shops, the Saturday market and last but certainly not least the amazing walk around the city walls. The views will astound you!
If you happen to be here now then you should also visit the Chocolate Festival!
Eurochocolate Festival 2016, at its 23rd edition, is from 14 until 23 October 2016.
Eurochocolate is the International Chocolate Exhibition. The largest of all the chocolate festivals in Europe. The event allows individuals to discover the different flavors of chocolate from cultures around the world.
For ten days every October about one million visitors will visit this event. The festival offers experimental tasting, cooking classes, performances, sculpting and art displays.
The main attractions are: the Chocolate Show, Eurochocolate World and the incredible life size Chocolate Sculptures.
A Chococard can be bought at the festival offering guests discounts, contests, prizes and free tastings.
Apologies. ..if there are any mistakes on this post! For some reason the WordPress app went crazy and it’s taken me absolutely ages to write and rewrite. Too exhausted to check any more ! Just want to publish before I lose the whole lot again!
Wow! He’s BIG!
Remember our Little Lizzie Lizard? (See previous blog post).
She looks a bit small compared with this one doesn’t she? But then Lizzie is a typical European lizard and they don’t grow very big. These lizards are found in much hotter places like Africa and Asia. We filmed this one in Singapore.
It is a Monitor Lizard and they DO grow very big! (Although a few are very tiny)
They do, however share some of the same characteristics as Lizzie Lizard. They are cold bloodied, have a scaley body, a partly detachable tail which will regrow and they lay eggs.
Unlike Lizzie, however, they are carnivorous and eat fish and insects and birds and small mammals.
Most are completely harmless but the Komodo Dragon (the largest Monitor lizard) has a weak venom (poison).
They are also very good swimmers! (Click on the link below).
https://youtu.be/joVk-w5P26s
There is an old story (a legend) about monitor lizards which says that they are a sign that crocodiles are near by!
We didn’t see any in Singapore! This story probably came about because these lizards stand on their hind legs to check if any predators are near.
Here’s a short clip of a monitor lizard:
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Take a circle for a walk !
New Sunday Challenge
Sunday Circles
It’s Sunday again and time for a new challenge .
Last time we watched raindrops falling into puddles and saw the circles shapes firming one inside the other.
The challenge was to see if we could find other examples of concentric circles and to try to make something using circles.
In the video the Jumbles show what they have made.
Georgie’s second day in Melaka
Hello everyone!
This is a video of my second day in Melaka.
i am back in Singapore and tired but I really enjoyed my visit. It’s so interesting visiting different places and learning about different cultures, their traditions, foods, clothes and religion.
I would like to go again sometime but first I want to see more parts of Malaysia. Or maybe Indonesia because that’s quite close to Singapore too and I have three more weeks here.
Isn’t the world such a big and exciting place! Travelling is great fun!
I hope you enjoy this video of my last morning in Melaka.
Creative Learning for Young Children 