[Ad- gifted product] After reading Granny Franny’s Big Red Bus, we were excited to hear that that wasn’t the end of Granny Franny’s adventures in the wider world! Instead of just touring around London, she actually spent a day at the zoo in Granny Franny’s Big Zoo Rescue. In this storybook, Granny Franny and the big red bus tries to take the twins, Ronni and Jax, to the zoo! She’s volunteered to take their entire school on a trip to the zoo, using the same bus from the previous book.
We do like to go out into nature from time to time, normally to local forests to look at mushrooms or make little camps. Wanting to do something a bit different, we decided to check out The Gruffalo Trail, which is a big walk in the forest that features statues from the book The Gruffalo. The Gruffalo Trail is apart of the Essex Wildlife Trust, so it is a well maintained area that has quite a bit to offer. It’s a free walk that even includes a little map, if you go into the gift shop/cafe to grab it – the only thing you need to pay for is parking.
If you’ve seen my previous posts, you’ll notice that we have fallen in love with Doughnut Time’s DIY Doughnut kits – we’ve tried their DIY 2.0 and their Cookie Dough Sandos before, and now wanted something a bit more colorful to try! The Party Sprinkle DIY kit sounded lovely, with lots of different colors and sprinkles, so we wanted to try it out!
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[Ad- gifted product] When it comes to plants, I can’t seem to get enough of them. Maybe it comes with getting older or wanting the finer things in life, but having plants around my house is something that brings joy to me. I love seeing them grow and change – seeing them thrive and continue on pushing forward. I’ve dabbled with quite a few plant subscriptions in the past, though I have found it’s hard to find one that is reliable and can deliver plants to your door – as none of us are able to go out now-a-days.
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This year we’ve been trying out a lot of different subscription boxes to keep the children entertained while our other options have been somewhat restricted by lockdown and Covid-19. We’ve done everything from nature boxes through to history-themed ones, but perhaps one of the most interesting offerings is the Letterbox Lab Explore Box, which we’ve been tinkering with over the last while.
Much like the Mysteries in Time box, the Letterbox Lab is sequential rather than based on the time of the year. So if you started a subscription today, you’d receive the first box, even if other people you know are much later in the sequence. There are twelve boxes in total as part of the Explore Box, with one delivered a month, and Letterbox Labs also do a much heftier Investigate Box if you have older children, or if you’re still interested in the magic of science once you’ve completed the Explore, 12-box run.
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