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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Making Spring crowns

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We celebrated the arrival of Spring at our Waldorf inspired playgroup recently.

We used wool twisties and pretty flowers to make sweet and simple Spring Crowns.

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I made the twisties the day before, with Max and Ruby helping me.

We used 5 long strands of children’s wool. Twisting them together to make our pretty rope. You can read how to make them here.

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Then during playgroup, the children and parents threaded flowers through the wool twisties.

Alternating colours and filling the twisties with flowers from the garden.

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We used light pretty flowers, so they wouldn’t be too heavy for the crowns.

Snow drops, pansies, calendula and lavender were threaded through. While some children liked their Spring crown without flowers too.

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When our Spring Crowns were ready, we tied them around the children’s heads.

Adorning them for Spring.

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We then made our way into the garden to play, frolic and dance around the maypole.

And I will share more about the maypole soon *smile*

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You can read more about last year’s maypole dance here and see how we made our maypole here.

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

Blessings, Kelly

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