Beach Party

If your planning to have a garden or beach party this summer this is a brilliant idea that I stumbled across the other day.

Instead of party bags make up some personalised beach buckets and either filling them with treats or with a packed lunch.

Amazon has loads of great stickers for you to theme your buckets from pirates to mermaids.......

Bottled Jelly Fish

we are going to make this on the weekend - perhaps you will do to

They look fantastic.....

here's the link to the instructions

'blhoom play blog'

Toilet Roll Monsters

We collect loads of toilet rolls for different sticking & gluing crafts.

I have just found this site that has so many different ideas for them

have a look

'do small things'

Raspberry Ice Lollies

These homemade raspberry ice lollies are surprisingly quick and easy to make. Make an activity of it and get the kids involved......

follow this link to Lisa's site for the recipe

'Lisa's Ice Lollies'

Fruity Smoothies

Fruitie smoothoes are an excellent way to get fruit and 'good things' into kids

We like to choose fruit at the supermarket to take home specially to make a milk or yogurt drink

Click the link below to find more recipes

'fairytale drinks'

Upgrade the ice-cream cone

Make your ice-cream cones individual with a quick dip in melted white chocolate & flakes of coconut

or you could use coloured candy or mini marshmallows - the choices are endless........

here's the link to creative wednesday - where I got the idea!

Cookie Cutter Sandwiches

Make up sandwichs however you wish with what ever flavours and get the kids to use cookie cutters to make different shaped sandwiches - we ended up with dinosaurs and fish!

here's the link to loads of more cookie cutter ideas

'skinny Mom'

Rocket Kebabs

I love these kebabs and we had a lot of fun making them.

we used loads of different fruits and made a honey & yogurt dip to go with it

Here's the link to the great kids blog that made them

'my kids craft'

Garden Colouring Sheet

This is a great summer inspired colouring sheet to download

here's the link

Wellie Wonders

Do you have wellies that don't fit still sitting in your boot rack?

We did until this summer when I saw this idea on pintrest!

We all went off to the garden centre and the girls choose plants to suit their old wellies and we got planting - so far they seem very successful and we may expand to veggies in larger ones next year!

Here's the link to little trekkers blog who came up with the idea.

Fresh Fruit Skewers

We made these the other day & they were sooooo good we decided to share the recipe with you all......

I found the idea on a food blog called inspired taste - I'll share there link at the end of this post.....

Children of all ages enjoy making these...

It's very simple - to make 12 kebabs (will serve 6) you will need....

1 lb fresh pineapple (or tinned), cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1 pint strawberries, halved
2 whole bananas, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
3 whole kiwis, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1 bottle (7.25-oz) chocolate topping that forms hard shell
12 8-inch bamboo skewers

All you do is ....

Thread fruit alternately onto bamboo skewers, using approximately 2 pieces of each fruit per skewer.

Place fruit skewers in a single layer on a baking sheet and freeze for at least 1 hour or until fruit is frozen through.

Just before serving, drizzle each skewer with chocolate topping and return to freezer until ready to serve.

We had ours with some cream - very yummy......

Here's the link to inspired taste