This week we are visiting England!
Here is our ‘This week we are visiting England’ sign. We stick ours up in the kitchen/dining room (where we do most of our playing!) so that the boys can keep looking at it...
Category: England
English flags!
We made some flags as part of our ‘England week’. We made one flag out of card, craft sticks, glue and paint. I made one first, and then drew out the cross for my...
Slaying a dragon for St. George’s Day!
We decided to take another ‘visit’ to England for St. George’s Day. And what else could we do but slay a dragon?! So our first task was to create a fearsome dragon to slay....
Beefeaters for the Tower of London
I’ve been talking to the boys about the Tower of London over our ‘England week’, which particularly my eldest has been fascinated by. So I thought we should make some beefeaters so they could...
Oven baked crumpets
We found this fantastic recipe for oven baked crumpets over at Just Add Patience (where there are loads of fabulous recipes!). Perfect for ‘England week’. The boys loved making them, and I couldn’t stop...
Marshmallow Stonehenge!
In our house, ‘just for fun’ is as good a reason as any to embark on an activity. We have been enjoying reading about Stonehenge in our England books – see my post on...
Sticky Toffee Pudding biscuits
Sticky Toffee Pudding is such an iconic British pudding that I thought these biscuits from Just Add Patience were perfect! So we embarked on our baking journey…and my son loved it! Some of the...
Hadrian’s wall!
Hadrian’s Wall happened to be on the news in the week we were ‘visiting’ England, and it sparked a ‘let’s make that ourselves’ thought! (I find that happens a lot…) Stage one was to...
Oxford and Cambridge boat race!
We had the Oxford and Cambridge boat race as part of ‘England week’. Science experiment and craft in one! We made little boats out of cardboard and cut a triangle out of the back....
The London Landmark game!
I introduce to you – the London Landmark game! Made up by my 4yo son as part of ‘England week’.I drew out a skyline of London on some poster paper with some of the...
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