Easter hare, furoshiki and more

The pictures below are all part of grannies eastergift for the kids. I forgot to take a picture of it before I furoshikied it all up so that will have to be done some point tomorrow.











Euan and I put an easterbasket together for Drew and his dog Max who live across the road.



This is one of the eggs that we dyed with red cabbage, we also dyed eggs with beets spinach and oinionpeels



A picture of Euan holding the little gnome that I made for him. your fingers go into his legs so you can make him run :)



Knitted horse (pattern by freya jaffke) for Euan's farm



Crochet sheep I made one for all 3 boys



I joined a swap at ravelry where we swapped knitted mini socks. My package went to the states.



These are a couple of stamps I carved the little sock went to the states and the jelly shell is for Euan to stamp his own frogspawn.

My frog links

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/Frog_Lapbook.php
http://www.squidoo.com/FrogUnitStudy#module15690982
http://www.schooltv.nl/beeldbank/clip/20021104_kikkers02
http://www.waterwereld.nu/kikkervisjes.php
http://www.suc6les.nl/content/view/79/32/
http://www.digitijd.nl/filmpjesgroep3.htm
and for lapbooking basics
http://lapbooking.wordpress.com/

reading writing spawn-tadpole

Euan announced last week some point that he wanted to read, so the arrival of the frogspawn was great timing. I have biology books stacked n the kitchen the fridge has turned into a whiteboard and Euan has started his first Main Lesson Book (MLB). everything is frogthemed at the moment and the first letter he got to learn was obviously F.
I know that the waldorf purists will fall of their chairs now (or at the very least tut loudly) but this is where I disagree with Steiner. I believe their little souls are firmly in their bodies and each child develops at their own speed
After the F was introduced its was K's turn for Kikker the dutch for frog. he is learning all the different names for the different stages of a frogs life as the spawn develops into tadpoles. and everything in both languages. We have another book on the way from Dk with great step by step pictures.
The entire outside of the house has turned into a chalkboard and I have little letters all over the place.

Willow happily joined in and the letters are joined by sguiggels. Thomas rather eats the chalks

Frogspawn!

Last sunday D one of our neighbours come over with a big brittajug full of frogspawn. Euan was overjoyed. We had nowhere to put them and freecycle didn't come up with much either.
So they spend a day or so in a jug, and we picked up a large feedbucket. they have a larger surface area than normal buckets and its big enough to hold a clump of spawn. should provide plenty of space when they are tadpoles.

here they are still in the jug sunday 15-3-09


in the bucket day 2 16-3-09


day 3 17-3-09 can you see the changes?