Serendipitous Candy Cane ice-cream & other delights

We accidentally created a new family tradition this year.

I had this day-dream of a ribbon stretched across the entrance way with big candy canes hanging from it. For all of the children, cousins included, to drool over in the week up to Christmas. So I hung it and it looked divine. But... in my enthusiasm I didn't secure the ribbon well enough for it to take the weight of the canes and with one all mighty *crash* we had ourselves a huge collection of shattered Candy Canes. Boo!

Enter the serendipity.

Why not create a smush-in?!

1. Put worse-for-wear Candy Canes in a ziplock & smash them up even more with a rolling pin. Keep some chunky bits for good measure.
2. Mix into a bowl of good quality vanilla ice-cream.
3. Serve on Christmas Day. Yum!

We also mixed some of the ice-cream with milk and created Zoku ice-blocks after Christmas. We love our Zoku maker here btw. It's brilliant.

So that's ice-cream. And serendipity. And now, here's a few links I wanted to share from the past few weeks. Enjoy! x

Reading:

+ The subtle shades of everyday creative learning
+ A list of things to learn
+ Why Narration?
+ The Virtues Of Kindness
+ Outside the box
+ Studying the world through creative play
+ To be more Joyful...

Inspired:

+ Beauty that moves
+ FIMBY

Resources:

+ Good Reads

+ Librivox

+ Audible

How i love rainy day projects | aka The Tibetan Mandala Puzzle Project

 My mama gave us this beautiful circular 500 piece Tibetan mandala puzzle.

And I loved watching two of my favourite boys working together...

Hand cards are up!

I've sorted my box.net account & uploaded the 'Hand' 3-part-cards so that I can share them with you!

They are black & white outlines so when you print them you hand colour the corresponding part of the hand (I coloured ours in a pale pink). There are 10 cards in total (the ones above plus: wrist & knuckles) plus a single card with just the word 'hand'.

If you haven't made them before - you make them into 3-part-cards by printing 2 sets of the cards & keeping one set as whole image/word cards & separating the word label from the image card with the second set. Please let me know if that doesn't make sense! ;)

The set I made for myself is cursive & you can download it here, but I also made a print set which you can download here.

Enjoy!

{Please leave me a comment to let me know if you download the cards &, of course, I just ask that you don't use them for commercial reasons :}