27 Mar 2018 39 Comments
in #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #MicroPoetry, #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Goddess & Worship, Haiku, Nature
Lovely Ron with his Haiku Challenge prompt words this week:
Apologies that this wasn’t up yesterday, but due to a debilitating migraine, my brain and body were forced to shut down before 7pm last night, and spent the whole day today in bed too, trying to shake off the same headache… But I’m back… and almost ache free…
Image from Pixabay
Hail Mother Nature
Goddess of our surroundings
Worship her beautyRitu 2018
24 Mar 2018 56 Comments
in Art, Children, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Art, Arts and Crafts, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, EYFS, Nursery, Puffy Paint
You know me, I’m a teacher, and an Early Years teacher at that.
This means a lot of hands-on sensory activities to develop and stimulate young minds, and lots of chances for me to experiment with great arts and crafts ideas I find on the interweb!
This week, we tried out Puffy Paint!
Literally, three ingredients!
And some containers and old lolly sticks to stir.
And there you have it!
I made up 8 pots, including a white one, and the kids loved it!
You can use a brush to blob the paint on paper or card, then once completed, leave to dry, overnight preferably, to get a wonderfully textured finish that is soft and spongy to touch!
The children really enjoyed the different feel of the paint, and they were intrigued by my sample painting, with these foam-like areas that were soft to touch.
They are so excited to be able to take their works of art home after the weekend!
24 Mar 2018 27 Comments
in #SoCS, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Picture, Socs
Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “picture.” Write about, or theme your post on the first picture you see when you sit down to start writing. You don’t need to describe the picture necessarily–you can even put yourself in it if you’re not already there. Enjoy!
Well, the first picture I saw, after reading the prompt and getting ready to write was the header from Linda’s blog!
And I’ve written about snow enough recently! Though we obviously haven’t had enough… did you know here in the UK there is apparently another cold snap coming, after all this wonderful springlike weather that we’ve been experiencing… and, so the weather peeps are saying, there may be snow on the EASTER WEEKEND!
What?!
No!
It’s bad enough that we’re losing an hour’s sleep with the clocks springing forward this weekend, but to be thinking we are going to experience more cold next week???? I can’t deal with it!
I am the first to want snow usually… during the winter months, though. And I don’t think it’s too much to ask that there be a white Christmas, but once the season has officially changed, and Spring is meant to have sprung??? No thank you!
We’ve even got frogspawn in our nursery, and the tadpoles have hatched..I’d hate if we had to release them to the cold pond, instead of a warm spring temperature pond!
Right, I am off now to nurse my still aching back and shoulders… flossing (the dance) needs a health warning… you should really warm up before attempting it for any length of time!
Catch ya later Peeps!
Happy Saturday Peeps!
https://lindaghill.com/2018/03/23/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-march-24-18/
23 Mar 2018 50 Comments
in #CarrotRanch, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #bloggersbash, #CarrotRanch, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Charli Mills, Flash Fiction, Follow Your Dreams
Charli’s prompt this week:
I did it mum. I took your advice.
“Follow your dreams, love,” you’d say to me. “Don’t let anyone stop you. I’d hate for your life to mirror mine.”
Born at a time where a good Indian wife and mother was nothing but that, my mum had dreams of being a doctor. Instead she was married off early, and, well, no one was going to encourage their daughter in law to study more, or, God forbid, work.
As I stand here, with my degree in my hand, my only wish is that you were here to see it too…
https://carrotranch.com/2018/03/23/march-22-flash-fiction-challenge/
22 Mar 2018 48 Comments
in #WritePhoto, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Carved, poem, Positivity
Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:
Our future is carved
By the steps of our past
Each breath that we take
One closer to our last
Think deep about
All the things that you do
For the marks that you leave
Will reflect upon you
What gift will you give?
What joy will you spread?
What path will you leave
For the future to tread?Ritu 2018
https://scvincent.com/2018/03/22/thursday-photo-prompt-carved-writephoto/
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