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A celebration of Spring

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The children and I are missing our playgroup mornings. They ask me when they will see their friends and when will we bake bread.

I am finding our quiet Mondays at home to be important though. A day to rest, run some errands, play in the garden and so on.

And as we settle into our new rhythm more I imagine we will start catching up with friends again.

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So it was lovely to look over these photos from our last playgroup morning that my friend took for me.

A morning on which we celebrated the arrival of Spring.

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That Monday morning the sun had shone.

After a weekend of rain, and more to come. But for our Spring maypole celebration it was just right, just lovely.

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The children excitedly headed outside after making Spring crowns.

And as I unravelled the pretty ribbons on the maypole they drew near. Choosing their colour.

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We sang as we danced around the maypole in one direction (you can see the song lyrics here), wrapping the ribbons beautifully, occasionally getting caught in each others ribbon, before turning and dancing the other way.

It was a beautiful and fitting farewell for our little playgroup community.

We miss them and hold onto our happy memories.

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You can see how we made our Spring Crowns here and how to make a simple maypole here.

???  And follow along on Facebook and Instagram to see snippets of our days ???

Blessings, Kelly

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Shadows in the Woods

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This post is sponsored by Dragonfly Toys

Shadows in the Woods is a magical board game of hide and seek. The woods are created using jigsaw type board pieces and wooden trees.

One player lights the candle to place on a circle on the board. Then they cover their eyes while little gnomes are hidden in the nooks of wooden trees by the other players.

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The dice is rolled and the candle is carefully pushed along the path.

If the light from the candle reaches a gnome it is frozen in place. While those gnomes hiding in the shadows remain safe.

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Each turn, the players have a chance to hide their gnomes anew. They can also place their gnomes near a frozen gnome to bring it back into the game.

This is a magical game to play in the near dark, allowing the candlelight to seek the gnomes.

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Max is all about board games at the moment. He loves them! And Shadows in the Woods has become a firm favourite.

It is perfect for dark Winter nights, or any night where the room can be darkened nicely.

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Our only challenge is getting Teddy to stop blowing out the beautiful Queen B candles!

********************************* G I V E A W A Y *********************************

Win the Shadow in the Woods board game from Dragonfly Toys!

And the WINNER is Milena who said ‘”A New Day” for the littlest. A wise little boy I know showed me how great that book is’

Dragonfly Toys is also offering free shipping until Sunday 23 October 2016. Just use the code DRAGONFLYTOYS2016 at the checkout.

???  Good luck ???

Blessings, Kelly

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