Mar
22
Easter Basket ideas
by Sofia - in Good things for kids
We already have Easter baskets for the girls from last year and now I keep up with my tradition from previous years and fill them up with goodies I think my girls will really like. This year I bought some special embroidered things for the girls on a work trip and will share photos with you this week but I´m sharing some cute ideas from Belle & Boo ( that I might get next year) for you if you are building a basket too.
Cute pens.
Bath fizzers.
Mar
18
Car trip activities
by Sofia - in Good things for kids
We had the most amazing little ski trip last week. We hit the slopes on a few days and cross country skied on the other two. We also took the girls to ride shetland ponies ( they loved it) and they went to a spa with slides and such with their daddies while my friend and I sat on the sofa and sipped champagne ( we really needed it!). They also saw a reindeer they got to pat so Sven is off their bucket list now. And the girls skinny dipped in snow from the sauna. I used to love doing it as a kid and it was so much fun hearing them scream with mixed delight and “horror”. All in all it was a good trip with a lot of fun memories.
We drove there by car and even though it was only a 6 hour drive I thought some activities might be good to have on hand just in case they got bored. Right I was. Watching iPads or reading does not work too well in our family as the girls tend to get car sick easily. But little activities are fine for them. My friend spoke highly of audio books but I did not have any time to get them before our trip and the ones I found on iTunes were in English. So we packed some colouring books and sticker activity books instead.
Then we tried my friends fun travel game of spotting the moose warning signs ( yes we have those here). The one who spots it first gets a point. If you say it at the wrong sign you loose a point. Easy and fun until the sun starts to set and someone screams ” Moose” and my husband who is driving almost hits the brakes.
Another great activity is making sentences and stories so that each passenger adds a word on their turn. It would be even more fun if there was not a 4 year old ready to fall asleep and using ” potty words” all the time. She thought it was so funny. The rest of us not so much.
When she finally did fall asleep Cotton Candy started practising on braiding. And that is what I´m sharing with you today. I found the idea on Pinterest and it´s so simple yet brilliant. On the original picture I saw someone had attached 3 ribbons to the driver´s seat´s head rest and the passenger sitting behind it was braiding those. But as I only had really nice ribbon on hand ( read; I did not want to use so much of it for this) I just used masking tape to tape it onto something we already had in our activity basket. Easy as ABC…
