Deer and Fawns

I am thrilled to share this project with you! We’ve been working on this over the last week. As part of our letter C lessons for Lacey’s preschooling and A’s enjoyment in her prepschooling, we chose coconut. 🥥 I love teaching my children about sustainable living so our lesson was, how to sustainably use a coconut - making the most of it.   In this post I will share with you how to make the following -A coconut bowl -Coconut milk -Coconut flour  -Coconut oil -Edit- We have since started filing the coconut fibres off the outside of the shell before draining and cutting it open which makes things a lot easier. - On a coconut there are three dark spots, push on these to find the softest one. This is the one you want to pierce open to drain the water out. We just used a clean nail and hammer. Lacey helped hammer it open and then she shook the coconut water out.  Once the water is out you can score a line around the coconut where you’d like to saw it open.  We did two coconuts at once becau

I absolutely love crystals and so do my kids which works out well because I’ve been collecting them since I was very young so any chance I get to incorporate them into a lesson makes us all happy!  Lacey has started her preschool home education this year and as such we are doing letter discovery with her although where possible I try to combine a lesson to include fun that both Lacey and Audrey can join in together. For the letter C we have have a major project which I will post as soon as it’s finished. Sometimes, as our children as quite young, a major project will span across days or weeks and that okay because we take our time and enjoy it. Our other big fun project for C of course had to be crystals! 💎 What a wonderful reason to set up an invitation to investigate crystals.  So many different colours, textures, patterns..beautiful! I chose a craft to pair with this activity that can be used in their pretend play.  🧚‍♀️Crystal wands! 🧚‍♀️ We went for a family walk to a nearby pa