Daily Walk = Daily Activities

It's hard working from home PLUS running a home where everyone is IN and doing a bit of Home schooling too! Yet somehow leaving the kids to their own devises is not an easier option!!!
If you are getting out each day - to exercise some peace of mind let alone muscles - good for you! Here are a few more activities to fill a bit of time if needed
 Following on from Bog Baby last week, making a fairy door for the garden, or to hide on the street/in the woods can be easy. Any sticks, any colour, any detail. Glue or string or whatever you can find to bind it together - give a home to fairy folk!


If you prefer something a little more... visible, how about a home for a bee! I know lots of people are scared of them, many are allergic to them, but if you, like me, love a bee, you can make a home with bamboo, or straws and on old tin washed out:

And if you want to identify whoever takes up residence...
Bees do love flowers and so do most of us, so if you have any empty egg cartons laying around perhaps you can make yourself this brilliant frame for your favourite photo or your bestest drawing!
And Finally, if you can find yourself a few stones
while outside, painting a few bees and ladybirds means an easy game of noughts and crosses (tic tac toe) or bugs n bees
Oh and before I forget - an important life skill to master during lockdown!

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