I pulled up a lot of this yesterday !
Give me your local folkloric names for this beauty .
Granny Pop Out of Bed is one name , also a game that children used to like to play making the corolla pop out of the calyx . Supposed to look like grandma sitting up in bed saying her prayers !
Do children still play games such as these ? 🤔
Things to try during the Summer holidays .
Making Daisy chains .
Buttercups - Do you like butter ? See if it glows under your chin ?
Making the dragon snap with Snapdragon flowers .
Making loud squealing noises with a blade of grass or a reed over their thumbs and blowing .
Making owl hoots by cupping your hands and thumbs together tightly and blowing through the tiny gap between thumbs .
Wolf Whistle .
Whistle for the dog ...a good long loud whistle .
Whistle ..... can you whistle a proper piece of music ...in tune ! ...and with feeling .... with heart felt emotion ......really , really sad or what about really happy like the Flora Dance or a joyful marching song ?
Find a four leafed Clover .......for very good luck ! 🍀
Press wild flowers , ferns and grasses .
Plait or weave a wedding ring out of grass .
Make a St Brigids Day Cross .
Weave a Corn Dolly .
Weave a simple basket .
Make a really fantastic sandcastle on the beach ! No , I mean a really super-dooper sandcastle !
With a proper moat and draw bridge .
Make a Stone Henge and enjoy a fantastic picnic sitting in it .
Make a sand mermaid , decorate with stones and shells .
Better still ...make a sand dinosaur ! 🦖🐬🦕🦈
Make a labyrinth ..if there's space on the beach ...everybody loves them .
Press different types of sea weeds , make a nice collection .
Find heart stones , sea glass , seashells , fossils , funny face stones 🤪🥴😶
I'll be making another little washing up bowl pond with my granddaughter to replace the one I did a few years back with my grandson . It's in my cool and shady secret fern garden . They are both big enough now for me to not worry about them falling in .
It'll be some brilliant muddy messy and watery fun !
Painting and crafting .
Nature walks , climb trees , paddle in streams , find tadpoles , frogs .
Earning pocket money for doing jobs about the house and garden ....you'll find they love that one !
Paint the garden furniture ,wash windows , pick and shell peas , help me to find and fill my baskets with fir-cones and kindling ready for the winter.
I'm thinking of ideas ..... things that are interesting , mostly quiet , educational and teaches a skill , fun , more importantly .... FREE !
Of course we'll be out and about visiting some of the wonderful ancient places around Cornwall .
Lanyon Quoit , Men-an-Tol , Ding Dong Mine , the Sacred Tree with clouties and the Holy Well at Sancreed , stone circles and fogous . We will visit the woods at Roundwood Trelissick , the Dry Stone at Goonhilly to name a few of our favourites .
Mine love playing water guns with my plant squishers , involves lots of running , hiding and screaming .
It's an upgrade on the old fashioned rather boring game of "hide'n'seek ".....now called "Find and Squish " . It's a good one for a blistering hot day ! 🤣
So I'm just thinking of all the things we can do ....and waffling ....the men arrived very early and are busy re-doing the drive ..it's loud and dusty ! It had to be done !
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CHILDREN
They break up for their school summer holibobs next week . . .
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