Day Sixteen of LOCKDOWN!

Today was a more taxing day, as Daddy was working solidly all day; the kids were particularly demanding and seemed to make an awful lot of mess!

As always, we started with PE with Joe which is always good fun (and strenuous!).

Bumble (Grandma) sent a lovely knitted rainbow for us to put up in our window - Tahlia loves it!

Bumble also sent some worksheets which they enjoyed doing

We had a go at egg blowing, ready to make some painted egg decorations for Easter

You had to blow hard to get it out!

Tahlia's worksheet about Passover, which we will look at in more detail tomorrow

They had a great time doing a European puzzle together; it was nice to be reminded of Brexit for a change!

Everyone was getting involved...

Until Jory decided they were doing it all wrong and couldn't take it anymore!

Puzzle complete!

We prepared a lamb hotpot for our 'Passover meal' tomorrow

Someone got a little distracted!

Tahlia is making a rainbow picture for Bumble and Grandad to put up in their window

We make a craft scene of Jesus clearing the temple

Jesus lifts his hand angrily to knock over the tables of the money lenders who had set up shop in God's temple
(the flap moves to change the sellers' reactions)

We also decorated the next few pages of our Resurrection book

They had fun playing Avengers superhero themed Happy Families 

We made a passion cake using 3 different fruits and one vegetable -can you guess what they were?

Tummy Ache is a classic game in our house

Tahlia loves doing mazes at the moment

They made up some of their own games outside

Playing with sticks

Zachary discovered a new fruit that he hadn't seen before; he liked the smell though

It was Ptolemy's turn to open an egg

It had nails in it to represent the nails that were put through Jesus' hands and feet

Jory opened an egg too and found a die - the soldiers cast lots to see who would win Jesus' tunic after they took it

Ptolemy tries to sneak the next one

Day Fifteen of LOCKDOWN!

 Daddy wasn't working too much today, so he could help out with the kids quite a bit.

Mummy and Jory headed out shopping to get a few supplies ready for Easter

Once again there was quite a queue outside; however, the line moved very quickly

There hasn't been any flour in any of the supermarkets we've visited for several weeks
(but we did manage to get some toilet roll and pasta!)

After lots of maths and reading, they chose the Beetle Drive game to play with Daddy

Ptolemy wanted to play his Spiderman matching pairs game again

We enjoyed another of our chocolate-related activities by taking part in a hunt for Willy Wonka's golden ticket!

Zachary found it - every time, to the dismay of the others!

They all took it in turns to hide the Wonka bars

Waiting to be called back to look

Jory popped out for a breath of fresh air

His favourite thing to do

King of the castle

We continued making our Holy week books; Zachary also did a worksheet about why we need sleep

Jory has learnt how to write Morrisons; now, he's moving onto Sainsburys; he had a meltdown when he realised he'd written a 'z' instead of an 's'

Next we did a fitness activity to get them moving...

Zachary doing his 10 push-ups

The next challenge was to jump over a rope 20 times

Here goes...

Tahlia tried to make it extra hard for Ptolemy

Ptolemy tried it a different way

Holding it nice and tight

Jory is horrified that they've raised the height

It was Tahlia's turn to open the Resurrection egg; this time, it was a whip and crown of thorns. We read about how Jesus was whipped and had a crown of thorns put on his head (so the people could mock him) before he was crucified

Day Fourteen of LOCKDOWN!

It's been two weeks and we're still finding lots of things to do at home...

Zachary did a sorting activity to work out which countries eat the most chocolate per person; Switzerland was the highest

 

Tahlia and Ptolemy had fun playing his Spiderman matching pairs game; he is very into superheroes at the moment

Someone hijacked Mummy's camera and took Zuma on an adventure

Making a papier mache pinata for Easter

They had good fun but found it a little sticky!

Playing a key worker role-play game (but sadly they're flouting the social distancing rules)

It was a lovely sunny afternoon so we decided to plant out our new additions

The soil was quite solid, so we went for the big spade

Digging a nice big hole; Ptolemy was disappointed that we didn't find any treasure!

Planting out some peas

We had a little run down the road and found some more rainbows

Keeping the garden well watered

It's nice to have so many flowers out in the garden at this time of year

It was Ptolemy's turn to pick a resurrection egg

This time, it was a little cup, to represent the cup that Jesus and his disciples drank wine from at their Passover meal; Jesus said the wine represented his blood which was shed for many when he was to be crucified the next day

Most of them have learnt the current memory verse; Zachary and Jory are particularly good at learning them