Hannah went riding again today. She hasn't been going very regularly as she wanted to try Ballet, Modern and Tap instead, and to be honest we couldn't afford all of it, but she has missed the horses so much that she have come up with a compromise. She is sticking with Modern as she really enjoys that, and then continuing with Riding in place of Ballet and Tap. I'm really pleased that she worked out her own solution and is happy with her decision.
The stables where she rides is an old fort, and today a couple of horses were turned out on the roof - it was so funny to see them suddenly appear over the top of the stables!!
As play is a really important part of a child's develpment i thought i'd share some pictures of Hannah at play this week,
Playing with her tree blocks and instruments.
We have had a fantastic day today! We went with our home ed group to Weald and Downland Open Air Museum for 'Wonderful Wednesday - Childrens activities'. The museum is in Sussex, near Chichester and is set in 50 acres of countryside, it is the most beautiful setting. There are nearly 50 historic buildings dating from the 13th to the 19th century to see, lots of them have period gardens full of vegetables and herbs, there are also farm animals, woodland walks and a lovely lake.
The buildings have all been rescued from destruction, dismantled, conserved and rebuilt to their original form and bring to life the homes, farmsteads and rural industries of the last 500 years. It is a really fascinating place.
There were plenty of activities for the children to do today and Hannah made a bees wax candle, bread dough (which we baked when we got home),did some clay modelling, painting, made a corn dolly and rode in a horse drawn wagon, among other things.
Here are our pictures from today.....................
The old school house had some traditional games to try
The potting shed
This is Hannah's favourite art book - 365 Things To Make and Do, from Usbourne Books.
It is fabulous, the projects range from simple 'do alone' art to the more complicated 'work together' collages and there is literally something for everyone in it.
Here are some of Hannah's favourite projects :
Sponge Printed Birds
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It was the annual Beach Buggin' show on Southsea common today, and we've spent the whole day there today! We all miss our campervan 'Daisy' who we had to part with 18 months ago, so it was really nice to be at the show and surrounded by VW's again. Here are a selection of pictures of Hannah posing alongside various vehicles!!
