Bees are incredible creatures - pollinating our food and flowers whilst making golden honey and versatile wax.
This week we got rather sticky, munching on honeycomb and discovering how honey and wax go hand in hand. Wax, as a product, has many, many uses. Today we used it for making Bees Wax Wraps, and the wee ones had a play with some homemade modeling wax. Beeswax Wraps are a brilliant plastic free sandwich wrap - replacing the need for cling film in your home. And they’re so simple to make. Check out this DIY recipe that we used when making them at Buds n Blooms. YOU WILL NEED: - grated beeswax - cotton fabric - pinking shears (pinking shears gives your wrap a nice finish and stops it fraying) - an iron - aluminium foil - old towel - baking paper METHOD: 1. Cut your cotton fabric to a desireable size for you wrap with the pinking shears 2. Cover your iron with alfoil to keep the wax out of it (Precautionary) 3. Lay out your old towel to iron on 4. Lay out you baking paper (you may need to overlap the sheets to make it big enough) 5. Place you fabric on the baking paper and sprinkle the wax on it evenly and cover with another sheet of baking paper. 6. Iron the wax and the fabric evenly and right to the edges. 7. Once all the wax is melted and while it’s still hot, quickly peel back the paper, peel off the fabric and hang to dry. We had so much fun making these - why not give it a go!
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At buds n blooms we are in the garden rain, hail and shine! The garden always needs tending to and lets face it - kids are kids - and need to get out whatever the weather.
Makuru - season of the first rains and the coldest and wettest time of year, and this year it has certainly been wet, WET, wet!! One of the favourite activities of the kids in our garden patch is watering. The act of filling those little colourful watering cans with water and dousing the wee seedlings and seeds with water keeps the kids totally engrossed and they just keep coming back for refills over, and over and over again!!! And this is A brilliant way of interacting with the garden - at all age levels. However, this season the watering cans are well and truely packed away! So . . . What can we do to get the kids involved and interacting in the garden in new and exciting ways throughout winter?? SNAILS!!! This week the kindies came to the garden looking for snails - and there were certainly plenty to find. AND the kids had a ball!!! There were squeals of excitement, kids naming their snails and take away boxes overflowing with these slimy critters that as gardeners we love to hate. But collecting snails brought so much enjoyment to the kids, and adults alike. And to be honest - i was quite happy that they were being removed from our brassicas and kale to be fed and nurtured by our budding gardeners ;-) (this is also a great activity to do in your home garden if you have very hungry chickens) |
Sarah Nix
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August 2018
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