Life has been so busy that I have not had much time to spend online, which isn't a bad thing at this time of year. However, it does mean that I am very behind with my blogging for the Wildlife Trust challenge, which is a shame.
Here is a summary of what we have been up to over the last week:
At Nature Detectives today December and June collected leaves in the woods and were very excited when they returned to the activity room as they had seen a deer whilst out and about. Unfortunately no-one was able to get a photo of the deer, but here is an artist's impression by June as well as a photo of some of their leaves ready for pressing.
A hectic day, however June and December spent a couple of hours in the garden playing with their wild animal toys that we got from the local toy library. They really enjoyed making the lions creep through the grass before leaping on their prey!
A day of great excitement, being June's birthday :) We had a busy family day as her party was planned for the next day, however we did all manage to spend some time gazing at the Moon in the clear evening sky, which was lovely :)
A hectic day full of bouncing children at June's Peter Rabbit themed birthday party! Above is a photo of her birthday cake which I made to fit the theme :)
A wonderful friend (who is a trained Park Ranger) put together a themed co-operative treasure hunt for the children to do around our garden, which involved collecting radishes, strawberries and jigsaw puzzle pieces as well as having to avoid being caught by Mr McGregor! June loved the Mr Rabbit's Journal with a map of our garden in the centre which was made especially for her :)
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| Woad |
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| Teasel |
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| Flowering Nettle |
We had a lovely Summer Solstice, visiting the Wood Show at a local museum. December and June enjoyed having a carriage ride with their Daddy and really admired the beautiful dappled Percheron horses. We spotted some impressively tall flowering nettles as well as woad, teasels, hops and bird's foot trefoil.
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| Bird's Foot Trefoil |
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| Hop |
I spent about half an hour sitting in the sunshine enjoying watching the bees busy on the clover in my front garden. It was very peaceful and I could happily have sat there much longer if I hadn't needed to get on with other things.
June made one of these beautiful butterflies at her Nature Detectives group today.
I've also included a photograph of the bird's nest she made a week ago, which she is very proud of :)
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