We’ve had a lovely day today with my eldest niece Miss D. We’ve been sticking, colouring and swinging!! We visited the museum where Miss D lives as they have been holding a number of family fun events during the summer.
We were a bit early, which gave my son the opportunity to play with the interactive displays. The museum is right next to the canal so the displays all focus on the canals as a mode of transportation.
Then it was time to join in with today’s crafty Family Fun session – Jungle Adventure. The session cost £2.00 per child and lasted for 2 hours. The museum had made a jungle scene with a story corner and the children could choose to make two animals from a choice of a monkey, snake, parrot, lion, tiger and butterfly. We obviously chose to make a Monkey!!! and a Tiger/Lion. The idea being that the children take one finished animal home and if they are happy to, they leave one in the Jungle for everyone else to enjoy – I thought that was a lovely idea.
So we got down to the serious business of sticking, colouring, cutting and making our creatures.
My son decided he wanted to keep his Monkey – I do love the pink feather tail! But he was happy to put his Tiger (looks more like a Lion) in the Jungle. He decided the best part of the Jungle was Story Corner, so his Tiger now guards all the Jungle books!
Once we’d finished our session of Jungle Adventure we worked along the canal towpath so he could admire the narrowboats and then headed to the park for a quick go on the swings (he only ever really goes on the swings!). Then it was time for a well-earned lunch.
After we’d filled our tummies we drove to Miss D’s house, parked the car and walked over to her park, yes, for another swing session. This one lasted over an hour, with Miss D being instructed to push and Mummy being told to sit on the bench!
We’d had a lovely day, sticking, colouring and swinging.
I’m linking this post to Summer Play – this week being hosted by the lovely Angela over at The Life of Spicers.
Sounds like a really fun day and looks like Monkey had a great time sticking!
It was a lovely day, it’s really nice that I still see my niece (my ex-family) and she gets on really well with Monkey too. Only seems 5 minutes ago I was pushing her on those very same swings and she’ll be 18 in April!
Lovely day, nice and chilled 🙂
She doesn’t really live in a museum? Really? That’d be amazing 😀
It was lovely, I really liked the idea that all the children leave an animal in the jungle at the Museum for everyone to enjoy.
Looks like you had fun!
It was a good day out.
What a fab day you had it seems. I think it’s so important to support local museums, we love out town one and go almost everytime we are near.
It was great, we don’t have a museum here, and I have to admit (hangs head in shame) that I hadn’t visited this particular one for years, but will definately be going back again. Monkey loved it.
A lot of sticking and crafty stuff going on there.
I particularly like the pink feather tail!
Looks like a really fun day out – we love our museum for crafty fun and the park after is always a winner!
We had a great day
this looks like lots of fun! and how fab that places are putting on special events for children!
thanks for linking up with #PoCoLo
I just loved the idea of leaving some of the artwork behind for others to enjoy
thanks for linking up to summer play this week
That looks like such a fun day – I love the monkey with the pink tail! #PoCoLo
I think that pink tail makes it!
Looks like you had a great day 🙂 popping over from pocolo
It was good fun