Happy Mother's Day!

We've spent the week making lots of lovely presents and cards for our Mummys! I wanted to make things where the children could really get involved in and enjoy the process.
We made truffles that had crushed biscuits in them, it was lots of fun making the crumbs:

So was mixing and rolling the truffles, as well as decorating a cone to put them in:

Painting the cards and a flower pot was also fun! We went to the garden and I let the children choose which flowers they wanted to put in their flower pot.

The end result looked pretty good too:

Hedgehog bread rolls

Today we made bread rolls and shaped them into hedgehogs. Making bread is always great to do with kids, they get to mix:

Knead:

And, best of all, eat the finished result for their lunch!

We made the spikes with scissors - that part was too closely supervised to take pictures but the kids really enjoyed, although we did end up with a couple of decapitated hedgehogs along the way!

Rice Krispie Kraziness

This week we welcomed a new starter to Hobbsy's House, a lovely 1 year old boy. I'm looking forward to finding lots of fun things to do with a younger toddler and found this fantastic blog by another childminder full of inspiration. I wanted an easy to set up sensory activity and found a post on Rice Krispies! I set it up outside with the toy kitchen so that my 2 year old could join in at her level:

Her favourite thing was jumping on them to hear them crunch!

Meanwhile the 1 year old enjoyed just running his hands through them and carried fistfuls around with him while he played in the garden!

What's cooking?

Cooking is a favourite activity of all the children I look after. But when real cooking isn't an option a few dry ingredients and a toy cooker is just as much fun! Pouring, mixing, plating up...and with no washing up after.