Showing posts with label Mr Mar Jr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mr Mar Jr. Show all posts

August 14, 2012

Messy Play

So the other day I let the kids have time to experiment around a bit. I mixed some corn-starch with water. This stuff is fun to play with as if you move your finger through slowly it is liquid but if you try to do the same thing fast it is solid. So it is grate for the kids to experiment with. At first I let them play with the plain white mixture.

Messy Play

Messy Play

Afterwards I let them choose 2 colours to put into there one.

Messy Play

Messy Play

Messy Play

Messy Play

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When ever they wanted more colours I asked them what they think was going to happen. And just let them play. I think they played for over an hour before they got board with it.

At some point Miss Mar noticed she can roll it into a ball, Mr Mar Jr was doing little snake type things.

Messy Play

Then when they stop rolling the mixture they let it run between there fingers.

They played for over an hour with this mixture. To keep it a bit contained I put the mixture on baking trys. It still put corn-starch all over the place but defiantly kept it more confined.

May 29, 2012

Lady Bugs

 

So while looking around on pintrest I saw some ladybugs with number pop up a few times. The only problem was, it was some type of spam linked to it, therefor I could not get to the original post. With that I thought I would make them and create a post on how to. 



My kids had fun making these. Ms Mar is currently at home before she starts school in Austria, and as she went to school in New Zealand I am now continuing on from where she left of from there. Now she still has allot of problems recognizing a few numbers 6, 8, and 9 so I am doing lots of little things that include numbers, this was one of the activities.
What you need
  • black card
  • red card
  • ether number stickers or pens that write on black paper
  • paper pegs (I have no idea what they are called) The little golden things in the box
  • Howl puncher to make eyes with / Eyes
  • Scissors
  • Black Water proof Marker
  • Glue
  • Lady bug Template (you can down load it here, do not redistribute, please link to this blog post for people to get it. THANK YOU )
Lady bugs by Mrs Mar
Print the template onto cardstock or some other strong paper, as this will make tracing it easer.
Cut out the template
Lady bugs by Mrs Mar
Then trace each part of the template 10 times, If you are doing numbers from 1 – 10 if you are doing more number trace more of each template.
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While all this is happing keep 3 year old entertained with the whole puncher
Lady bugs by Mrs Mar
Cut out all the 4 pieces
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Punch out the holes
Lady bugs by Mrs Mar
Once done assemble all the pieces, first the body and wings so that the wholes all line up, (on the template as I changed it a bit afterwards, the wings will not line up with the body part, this is on purpose)
Lady bugs by Mrs Mar
Then thread the paper pin through and close it up
Lady bugs by Mrs Mar
They should all look something like this now
Lady bugs by Mrs Mar
Next glue the eyes onto the heads
Lady bugs by Mrs Mar
Once the eyes are on attach the heads with a small dab of clue on the paper pin head
Lady bugs by Mrs Mar
and push the head onto the glue, make sure you don’t use to much glue or else it will glue onto the paper and you can't open the wings anymore.
Lady bugs by Mrs Mar
Lady bugs by Mrs Mar















Then open up the wings and stick the numbers onto the body
Lady bugs by Mrs Mar
Lady bugs by Mrs Mar
















Next look at the number on the body an draw on the dots representing that number
Lady bugs by Mrs Mar
When they are done the will look like this
Lady bugs by Mrs Mar
These are also useful for explaining even and uneven numbers, the uneven numbers have a dot in the centre going across both wings.
If you make them I would love to see them. Have fun.

March 25, 2012

A blog I have neglected & my way over due winner give away.

I love blogging, but right now we just came back to Austria about 6 weeks ago. I have been busy. First, I applied for Mrs Mar to be home-schooled for the rest of her kindy year, as in Austria she is still too young to go to school. I did not wan to send her back to a kindy after visiting a school. So home-school it was. It is a grate adventure. I had about a 24 page circulaium to read through and plan on. I ended up writing over a A4 page of when I will be doing with her to reach all the goals they ask for. Most of the stuff they want you to do, I already do. I am collecting ideas and recourses over on pintest (may I say I am addicted) I have 2 boards for luring aspects, one EDUCATION and the other CRAFTS

Mr Mar Jr also turned 3. Can you believe it, my baby boy is 3 years old now. Time has gone by so fast. He is FINNALY potty trained. He was going pee in the loo before he turned 3, but my conversations often went like this.

Mrs Mar: Where dose poo go?
Mr Mar Jr: In the toilet.
Mrs Mar: Where dose Mr Mar do his poo.
Mr Mar Jr with a huge grin on his face: NAPPIES

Yeh, he knew but didn’t cear. So I was at a loss. Till about 2 weeks after we arrived back in Austria, I asked where did Mr Mar Jr go, well he was upstairs sitting on the toilet. When he then called. MUM came and wipe my bum, me poo. From that day on he was toilet trained. Really it just had to click in his brain. We are also stoped using nappies at night. As he had been waking up dry for AGES, but since it was a hit and miss during the day I just left them on at night too. So glad we are behind nappies.

Ms Mar is still going to her “afterschool” activates, gym and ballet. We have no started running, in July we will be running with 30,000 other woman in the woman's run this will be my 3rd time running the 5km race. And Ms Mar will be running for the first time. I think we will be walking half of it. But still we will get to the end. It is all about motivating woman to run. Once a week we meet with other woman for free training. I really enjoy this and Ms Mar has been asking for about 2 years to go along. So this time I said yes, she will be 6 by then, what I think is ok. If on the day she says it is too much and doesn't want to that's fine, she wont have too. But I doubt she will say that.

Now photography wise, I haven’t been doing much since getting back from New Zealand. Though about a month before I left I asked a friend of mine who was about to have her first baby if I could take photos of her new born, I LOVED it.

I had so much fun, it took 4 hours, but we were only doing photos for about 1 hour as it took her 3 to go into deep sleep. I had to then rush off to take a neighbours car to the garage.  Now I am trying to find clients in Austria who want me to take photos. The only down side is I am not allowed to open up a photography business here, as I would need to spend ALOT of money first getting courses they want me to have before I am legally allowed to open up a photography business. I think photography is a form of art, going to school would defiantly help, but if people like it then why can’t I do it… I will have to find away around it.

For more photos cheek out my facebook page.

Also to those who remember I did a giveaway on my blog, well, I gotta say, I never actually gave it away. But since I only had 3 comments/entires, I have decided to just give each of you one, LOL, are you still reading this blogs feed…

They were.

Ashley Sisk over at Ramblings and Photos

Amy over at Artistically Amy

and

Ewa over at Blueberry Craft and Hobby Time

You can head on over to this Facebook page of mine and have a bit of a look around what you like and chose your own design, or chose one of the finished plates. Tell me what you want written on it.

I keep saying saying I will get back into blogging, but I think i’ll just post once in a blue moon. Though I do miss cheeking out the blogs.

February 20, 2012

I Heart Faces ~ Hugs & Kisses

When I opened Facebook this morning and saw the theme for I heart Faces being hugs and Kisses I new exactly what photo I would be entering. And it has been a LONG time since I have entered anything due to the fact of having landline, now I am back to having broad band.

One I took as we were playing down by the ocean in Auckland, just after we arrived there, just under a year ago. Now sitting back in Vienna, I miss it. Even more knowing how warm there summer turned. Though we have had a grate time in the snow here. The sun is still nicer.

The kids were sitting on the side of a wall, when I told them to kiss, what would a 2 and 5 year old do. Sibling love, why is it now that they can fight just as much as they can be nice and love each other.

My 2 Darlings.
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So head on over to iheartfaces.com to see more grate photos including Faces.

February 15, 2012

Week 51 of Project 365

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Sun coming up over the hill.
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Plain taking off from Auckland Airport.
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Down town Auckland.
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Auckland City at night.
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Mr Mar Jr running around.
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With Ms Mar’s class on a class trip to a local diary farm.
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My Props for my first upcoming new born photo shooting.Day 357

Week 49 of Project 365

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Mr Mar Jr watching me take photos of a cake.
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For the school pet day Ms Mar took her bunny rabbit that we just got for this day and get to keep till we leave New Zealand.
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Maccaroons, I like the way they turned out.
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Pin weal cookies, theas are yummy.
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Mr Mar Jr posing with the bunnies.
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At the local eara school, ready for the play Another Stupid wall.
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Our bunny rabbits at about 5weeks old.Day 343