Knitting: Christmas projects 3

 These two cuties are part of a set of 6 pin animals that I'm busy with for Mouse.  They are so adorable and I love the ease with which they knit!  Still to follow with this set:  puppy, parrot, froggy, cow and a ball.

Mouse of course requested some other items as well :)  I have enough knitting projects to keep me busy till June next year!

Learning with Mommy: Arts and Craft Fun!

We have been having some fun with arts and crafts.  Mouse really enjoys painting and crafting and she actually woke up asking to make a kitten with a pom pom nose!

I cut her some shapes from craft foam and she glued everything on her own.  Love the 4 whiskers on the one side and the 2 on the other!

We also had some fun with paper plates, such a versatile homeschool and art and craft tool!

 Mouse drew some silly faces on the plates and then with some runny paint and a straw she added some silly hair!

When some sweet friends came to visit we made these paper plate frogs, this was great fun!

We also made some salt dough critters, once again 4 feet on one side and two on the other! I cut some q tips in half for the feet and we added some googly eyes. We are still going to paint them :)

We have some more crafting ideas lined up, cannot wait to share :)

Knitting: Christmas projects 2

 Remember this little cutie?  I knitted a blue Humpty Dumpty for my nephew as well, don't they look just adorable?  Mouse promptly requested a blue one for herself as well :)

 Looking forward to seeing him play with it!

My dear friend Celiah Ann showed me how to knit these little cloths, ever since she showed me that was all I was thinking about! I've completed 3 so far, one for Mouse and these two will go into the gift cupboard as well.  Gorgeous soft 100% cotton cloths to use as face cloths or even dish cloths. 

Will share some more projects as I finish them!

Knitting: Christmas projects 1

I have started on my christmas gift projects already, super excited and I've completed one so far!  I bought this cute little book {available on the shelves now!} from Huisgenoot / You.

Only R29.95 for this little gem! Available in English and Afrikaans and includes the most precious patterns for toys and other fun items for the home.

I started with a Humpty Dumpty for Mouse {she insisted on a pink one!}

Turned out rather cute!  As a beginner knitter I found that the book really caters to my knitting skills and I knitted this with ease. You can order one from Media 24 on 0860 103 686 for Afrikaans copy and 0860 103 687 for english copy , they also published a super cute baby knit book with the most adorable baby goodies in!  Will post  other projects as I finish them!

Please note that I was not paid for this review, nor did I receive a book for free.  I purchased mine.  This book is just so cute that I wanted to share with you!

Learning with Mommy: Clever Kids Club

Last week we did some activities from our Clever Kids Club packs.  Both of us enjoyed it since all the planning was done for me and Mouse really enjoyed the variety of activities in the packs.  I can highly recommend the Clever Kids Club to all!

Each pack consist out of the following:

• Flashcard {starts with the ABC, and colours as well as numbers follows in future packs, completing the entire ABC, numbers up to 20 and 10 colours}
• 5 fun and educational activities for the week
• Fun game / acitivity or colouring in page

You receive 5 of these packs in one bumper fun pack per month.  Subscription is R75.00 for 3 months, which works out to only R5 per week!! 

Here's some of the fun goodies we did last week from our CKC packs:

Activity:  Read a book and discuss My Body
We read the story of Babalela by Martie Preller.  This is by far one of Mouse's favourite books.  We looked at the Babalela, with the help of our little Babalela doll, and discussed his arms, the amount of fingers he has, the colour of his ears, the amount of ears, eyes, etc and how it compares to us humans, the colour of his tail and the fact that he has one!  She loved this and I had to read ALL our Babalela books (there are 3 in the series).

She loved this!

Activity: Paper plate duckies
We used some paper plates, cardstock for the heads, feet and beaks, yellow and white paint

Give your little artist the head, etc to paint and fold the paper plate in half - paint the one side.

Leave to dry.  I painted on a wing as well, but you can cut one from cardstock if you prefer.

Once dry assemble your ducky.  Glue the two sides of the plate together.  Glue on the beak, eyes, feet, etc.  This is Mouse's ducky. She glued everything on her own, so proud of her.

Here's my version!

Activity:  Science fun - milk and food colour experiment
Get your supplies together for this really fun experiment: milk, food colouring, dish washing liquid, tootpick, bowls.
Add some milk to a bowl and drop in the food colouring, now dip your toothpick in the dishwashing liquid and insert the toothpick in the colour blobs in the milk, you will see a colour explosion!  The soap breaks the milk's surface tension allowing the colours to mix and swirl creating beautiful patterns.  Mouse absolutely adored this activity!

Overall we had so much fun and I will be incorporating CKC activities into our daily homeschool schedule for sure! 

Disclaimer:  CKC supplied me free packs for review, I also receive a small commission for any subscriptions through this blog post.  Subscriptions for CKC as well as pack send outs are administrated by myself and you can contact me regarding CKC on admin@raisingcleverkids.com