30 Days Wild - Day 25

Today the afternoon was spent in a friends garden with a few other families. The kids played, there was tennis and swingball, bubbles, it was wonderful.

I had a little tour of their beautiful landscaped garden. They grow a lot there, courgettes, raspberries, tomatoes, cabbage, all sorts. As well as their flowers, it really puts my garden to shame. I couldn't believe how much further on their plants are than mine, they have big tomatoes on their 5ft tall tomato plants.....my tomato plants are only around 5 inches tall and are barely flowering yet! It is really inspiring to see such a wonderful garden and so much growing, it gives me an itch to grow more. I feel like an allotment is worth looking into for next year....hmmmm another idea for the list.

No photos today either, there were people everywhere and too much fun and laughter to be looking through a camera!

30 Days Wild - Day 23

Today we made an assault course in the back garden for all of the dinosaur and animal toys. We used sticks and stones, hay and even a few petals from a past-its-best rose. Later I also added a tray with water for them to wade through. At the end we placed our paper mache cave for all the animals to hide in.

This kept Pickle and Penguin amused for quite a while. They really enjoyed setting it up and making the dinosaurs and animals run through it.

30 Days Wild - Day 22

Today we spotted a squirrel in the garden nibbling at our strawberries!! We didn't manage to catch a picture before it scampered away but it did provoke an interesting conversation about wild animals and how they find food.

30 Days Wild- Day 21

Today we made some butterfly pictures in the garden. Pickle and Penguin put pieces of tissue paper onto butterfly shape cut outs and then sprayed it with water. It was a lovely cool activity for a very hot day!

After a little while we peeled off the tissue paper to reveal a beautifully patterned butterfly! It would be really lovely to make this with different shapes of tissue paper when they are a bit older and more thoughtful about design.

30 Days Wild - Day 20

Today we bought a bit of the outside in! We have a lovely rose plant hidden away at the bottom of our garden, today we cut some of the lovely white roses and bought them inside to sit on our windowsill. I love to have flowers in the house and Pickle is interested in looking at the flowers and describing them, he says they are pretty.

30 Days Wild - Day 12

Today we picked some strawberries from our garden! Pickle and Penguin love to stoop and peer at the strawberries beginning to blush. They are learning to check and see if they are ripe before picking them.

Both of them love strawberries and they love to pick them fresh from their very own garden.

30 Days Wild - Day 11

We planted a new tomato plant in our garden today! Let's hope we get some yummy tomatoes growing on it soon!

30 Days Wild - Day 8

Today we picked lettuce leaves from the garden for our dinner!

Sorry for the poor quality pictures, I may have had a 'helper'.