We are lucky enough to have a horse chestnut tree in our garden. Every day for about 3 weeks we went on a conker hunt and here is our collection

Mexico window display. The girls enjoyed this project. Ced and I often converse in Spanish so the girls were intrigued to learn some words. It was a very sunny project and they especially enjoyed learning about Chilli Peppers - I don't know why!

We ate tacos and tortillas and hubby came home to a spicey Mexican one day that week :)

Mexican flags and sombreros

Newspaper sombero. We modeled this on Elodie's head and Elodie and Lucia painted a side each. We let it dry and then added some elastic.

Paper plate Mexican Maracas. The girls enjoyed painting these and attaching the tissue paper to the wet paint which they found an interesting alternative to glue. We filled them with chickpeas and lentils and the girls sealed the maracas with staples.

We danced to some good Latin American Music and boogied around with our shakers.

We made a great vinegar and bicarbonate of soda Mexican volcano with red food colouring for special effects. The girls loved it, especially Dominique who screeched "BUBBLES!!!" at the top of her lungs each time I poured the vinegar in. I had to empty the plate twice!

The girls each made a collage with some typical Mexican images which they cut out and glued.

London Display

To ease Lucia into her visit to Great Ormond Street I decided to do London project. It was very basic with lots of colouring the familiar London images.

On our visit to London we took 3 taxi rides, saw Trafalgar square, Big Ben and visted the Houses of Parliament. We had special entry as my sister works there. It rained but it was a good day with good results from the GOSH visit too!

Camping project. Elodie and Lucia 'sleeping' in their sleeping bags. Look at Dominique's tiny one!

We decided to set up the tent in the garden instead of going on our intended camping holiday as it rained and rained and rained so much this Summer. 3 small children and camping in the rain - call me a chicken but I couldn't face it!

Elodie's backpack, complete with fishing rod, torch and sandwich

Camping back-pack and hat ready for the girls when they wake up in the morning

Decorating binoculars and colouring some fun camping pictures

Our indoor tent and fire with food cooking :) This was set up for the girls for when they woke up in the morning.

Africa window display.

This was a fun project. We read some good African books, learnt to count to 5 in Swahili (5 months on and we are now learning up to 10), did lots of dancing to African music and watched some great African dancing on Youtube, looked at Papa's pictures of Namibia (where he lived for 3 years) and I face-painted the girls as Massai princesses... We also did lots of work on African animals, African instruments and African jewellery

We cut out, named and glued all the countries of Africa. Elodie and Lucia then chose their favourite flag

Sorting African animals into their habitats; desert, savanna, jungle, river

African animal mobile

Summer window display

I incorporated some work on Summer into our Summer Break. We did lots of worksheets, mazes, matching etc and read lots of summery books. We bough the girls a big new paddling pool and Dominique enjoyed lots of sand and water play for most of the summer.

Lucia serving and Elodie buying at our home-made ice cream shop