So this was my cake after surgery (above0 and below with cream and sparklers and singing
Of course when one travels 5 hours to get to a pretty spot one feels the need to be busy (it helps me stay awake which is safer for my darling family). I started this little project 2 years ago on another trip and thought this would be an opportune moment to keep going. I think i have made about 60 hexagons over the Easter weekend all made using scraps from Little Miss B's smocked dresses. I am still not sure quite what to do with them. I have visions of maybe a baby quilt or a bigger quilt years in the future but for now I keep cutting up these fabric scraps and making them into Hexies and hexie flowers - maybe some lucky quilter will find them at an op shop in the future and do something grand with them who knows.
This was an old hut from the original sheep station that had been restored 
Sir TP thought the sleeping conditions were pretty good - although a little dusty.
At the highest point on the property we added our rock to the Cairn and enjoyed the view on another spectacular day. The trip home had us driving through twilight and dusk and saw lots of native animals. The wet conditions have meant a soaring number of giant Orb spiders (I could have lived without this), strangely we never saw a single sheep on this property.
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The children mimicked the native poses on this fake rock sculpture and read the story about the original inhabitants of the area.
We looked at old equipment left behind
We went up to the look out - a steep climb and ate our lunch looking over the Pound.
The days were beautiful, the nights were chilly. The children were a little anxious as to whether the Easter Bunny would find them - he did. And then if the native animals would find their eggs first and eat them - they didn't. It was very chilly dashing around finding little eggs around the tent and car but it was fun
We left very early Friday morning here is Little Miss B stopped in Port Augusta to stretch our legs.
We camped without power at Wilpena Pound here is the tent going up. The emus were not at all bothered by us setting up camp and kept wandering past all weekend.
Sir Tp busied himself making a fire circle and laying out twigs to get it started.
And Miss B waited inanticipation for Marshmellows.
I will fill in some more details later
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Her name is Gwen - here is Angel meeting Gwen - Angel is a bit cold in the mornings - she has on her uggies and socks. I love Gwens long long hair and her funky satin top. She has earrings and pink nail polish (B is a little jealous).
I also got a treadmill for my birthday - I have given up on going to the Gym it is hard to fit it in around everyone elses committments so I will have to give the treadmill a good try now (I am running out of options to try and stay fit!). We have just got home from an EAster adventure I will share more later but for now I am off to hit the washing pile it has taken over the house.
Now the teacher instruction for this on Sunday morning is when you wake up in the morning, sneak out to your diorama, remove pipecleaner Jesus from the tomb and hide him behind the back of the diorama. Then go and wake up mum and dad (never mind if they got up at 5am to do secret jobs around the house or have been up all night with babies). When you wake them up say "Mum, Dad come quickly, Come and see the tomb is empty - Jesus is Alive!" Happy Easter all in blog land - don't eat too much chocolate God Bless
So to get this badge we had to choose three activities - one was invisible writing which we did using lemon juice and then heating it over the stove - Here is Sir TP's invisible message to daddy made visible - quite effective.
The third task he has chosen was a simple google jobby which was to learn the International Phonetic Alphabet and spell your name using it. So he will be spending the rest of the holiday trying to memorise that. So hopefully we will have one more badge to add to our uniform next term. If you have any good activities relating to cub scout badge work I would love to hear them. Sir TP is determined to get as many as possible and has his sights set on his Grey Wolf (though we don't have any boomerangs yet).
Sir Tp has the same teacher at school this year for year 3 as he had for Reception and one of her pet Easter Projects is the Easter Diorama. I am sharing this with you on our 2011 Diorama but we have been re enacting this drama for the last few years with Sir TP's reception one. The first year we did this was so cute. This teacher is very precise and she gets the children to really memorise the story and what to do so the children can share it with their families. SO here we are on Good Friday with pipecleaner Jeseus on the cross on the hillside near his tomb. Pop back at 3.00 to see what happens next. 
I am catching up on some sewing which got abandoned and packed away during birthday parties (Squirmy was found on my sewing. He was the same colour as the green check fabric. He obviously jumped on me when we were examining our veggie patch and tried to hide while we were squashing the caterpillars on the broccoli. Now he has been labelled endangered by the kidlets and is a protected species. Too bad about the poor broccolli).
Little Miss B has been busy drawing on her blackboard (giving the environment a rest from her mountains of drawing on paper). Playing schools, and scootering. Sir TP, Miss B and me have also been working on his Codes and Signals badge. More later about that.
Yay - I finished my crochet scarf complete with the wonky flowers on the bottom. Miss B is modelling it for me in the garden on a lovely Autumn day. She tells me it is making her neck nice and warm and I cant wait to wear it camping. It is nice to finish a project lets find another one to tick off the list. Cheers 
If it's winter then it must be time to sew on blanket badges!! Coming from a family with a bit of scouting history - it was only natural that Sir TP would be keen to have his own scout blanket ASAP. Grandma provided last birthday a Scout Blanket which is a very uninspiring grey army blanket which gradually gets adorned with cloth badges and scarves etc. Hubby has a great full blanket which he often adds to during winter(I refuse to sew on his badges). Grandad too has a great blanket, and Sir TP is well on his way with a variety of badges from places we have visited and scout events and challenges. My Job is to sew a few extra on like binding a quilt it can only be done in winter and at least if they are on the blanket I cant lose them. So that is my task over the next few days too stitch on badges it looks great folded up - but boy when you open up that blanket you think what a lot of badges we will have to collect to fill it. Cheers 
Sir TP is on a Cub Scout Bender and we worked out that with his painted eggs and another holiday project he was one project short of his Handcraft badge - a fabric sewing project. Lucky for him this is the place to fix that. He decided he wanted to make a puffle cuddly out of red felt. He drew up a pattern for a puffle (this is a creature from a game called Club Penguin for the over 12) and with a few little modifications here and there he cut it out, appliqued on felt eyes, embroidered a sort of back stitch mouth and sewed it together. Thankfully we had a pupil free day and a half day off after Sports Day so he could sew it up in time for Cubs. Hopefully that gives us one more badge for the term. Sir TP has his sights on his Grey Wolf badge whilst in cubs so he has quite a bit of work ahead. The good thing about this project is he was really motivated and knew clearly what he wanted to do and what he had to do and he did it (although he did want to use the sewing machine in the morning when we were doing the before school rush mmm!). 
Then use your pen to add some details - the children used a sponge to make grass and trees
I added orange beaks and pen drawn eyes ,wings and legs 
On the bunnies on the grass I added ears and tails and face details 
Dont forget an Easter greeting - I am boring and stick with Happy Easter 
Stick your white art onto a nice coloured background write inside and share the good news with your friends and familyFor this you will need
Polystyrene foam eggs
glitter,paint
felt, pom poms and googly eyes
hot glue, white glue and toothpicks
Out of the felt cut 2 sets of ears and 1 set of feet that look a little like this (or however your bunnies like to look)
glue the ears together with a little end of toothpick in between them. This helps you attach them to the styrene egg when dry.
Use the white glue to cover the egg with glitter or paint it rabbit coloured. Add googly eyes, a tummy, teeth or a carrot.
Use the hot glue gun to attach the feet to the egg and you have a little easter egg bunny (watch out making these is addicive and they will multiply.
Good Luck
Cheers
