More pirate antics have ensued this weekend so here's what we've been getting up to...
Digging for treasure! One washing up bowl of sand, a toy spade and a rake, a handful of charity shop beads and necklaces and a few chocolate coins makes for a messy but fun game...
Once again, Daniel wasn't so fond of the feel of sand on his fingers, but once he got the idea he could eat the chocolate when he dug it up, he dove straight in there! Thank goodness we've got a good hoover as the sand got thrown around quite a bit! If we do this again, we'll do it in nice weather so we can play outside :)
Next up was a sea-themed snack, not exactly pirates but as piratey as I could do :) Meet Captain Crab Apple!
Then we decided to make some telescopes. Nothing too fancy, just a toilet roll tube decorated with tin foil and star stickers. Daniel didn't quite get the idea of looking through it with one eye, he had it balanced on his nose! Nevertheless he had great fun :)
And finally, I made a treasure chest colour sorting game from an old egg box, coloured paints and pom poms :)
Daniel did surprisingly well at this - I thought it was possibly a bit too advanced for him but he proved me wrong! We will have to do more colour sorting activities with a few more colours :)
Other than this we've watched a few episodes of Swashbuckle on Cbeebies, and we're planning on watching Peter Pan and The Little Mermaid this week. I've got a couple more pirate activities in the pipeline which should see us through until we go away next week.
Nikki
Haha!! Nikki, this is so funny... we really are the same person. Check out my 'rice play' post - I'm happy we've got a good vacuum cleaner too!! I definitely want to try digging for treasure with Harry one of these days. Great post. xx
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