Summer Holiday Week 1 - Crafts and Fishing

So week 1 of the school summer holiday is over and not too much excitement to report. This week was kind of a write off as I started to have some pains and discomfort early in the week and ended up in hospital with an infected/inflamed epididymus! So I have ended up taken a few days off of work sick and am now on a course of antibiotics.

 

The kids have mostly pottered around at home however we have been trying to get them to do some reading and a craft activity every day. We have also been printing off some word searches and colouring pages to stop them spending all holiday on IPADS and PlayStation's! The first craft activity I set them early in the week was simply to make the best paper aeroplane they could. Then we tried making a volcano which was a bit of a flop. Then late in the week I got them to colour, cut-out and glue either a 3D car or a house.

 

The base for our volcano experiment which was to incorporate a sand mix, citric acid and some bicarbonate soda.

Brandon mixes the sand mix to make the actual volcano.

The boys get to work layering the sand mix to look like a volcano.

Not a bad effort. Now for some chemicals.

In goes the bicarbonate soda in to the crater.

With a squirt of citric acid it wasn't quite the volcanic explosion we was expecting,

The box certainly made the experiment look more elaborate than our effort!

In between the crafts we fitted in a spot of fishing and both boys pulled out quite a few roach. No carp today though.

I think Josh caught 5 and B got 3.

Brandon working on his 3D car project.

Whilst Holly colours her 3D house and Joshua glues his 3D Hummer.

For 3 years old, Holly's colouring is getting very good.

Joshua's completed Hummer. Looks good to me.

Holly gluing her house together.

The finished house which Holly was extremely proud of.

Last but not least Brandon finished his 3D racing car.