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The two days out in London really took it out of us so we have been taking it easier yesterday and today. 

The boys are not having iPads in the day at the moment because I feel uncomfortable just now with how much it distracts them from playing with their other toys and from imaginative play. After a small amount of protesting they have been happily playing with their playmobil, cars, mucking about on their bunk beds, listening to audio books and music and looking at books.  They have also been inventing a trap in the back garden for any predators that might get into the garden and get the long anticipated chickens, that still haven't arrived. They are due to us within a few weeks apparently. 

This is the boys making up their own fun in the lounge. Dressing up and role playing. 

Yesterday I took the boys to the splash park at Leighton Buzzard for a play with their friends. 

Slightly blurry but they are all playing in the sand together here. 

This is a photo of the boys playing nicely on their own. 

I got out some different science based toys and they played with them for a while. The line of cylinders just visible in front of Miles is a set of pressure sticks. There are six in black and six in white. You press the button which compresses a spring, each of the six cylinders go up slightly in pressure and the point is to work out the order of  pressure, depending on how you want to do it. 

Caden had already put them in the order he felt they went here. Miles then knocked them down like skittles. 

We recapped over primary and secondary colours here with this colour palette. He came to me to show me how he had made all three secondary colours. 

Caden found some blue shiny ribbon and made a strange tie for Miles' legs that they both found hilarious. He would pull the ribbon and make Miles' leg move like a puppet. 

Then they decided to use the ribbon to make traps in the garden in case a fox came to get the chickens. They were outside figuring this out for a while. 

Caden came back in with a plan/map he had made of how he would trap the fox. It is really excellent! He drew the arrows to show the direction of the plan. Apparently we would use his bow and arrow to drive the fox in a direction towards the trap but it was a humane trap that would softly catch the fox by its belly so we could drop it over the fence gently and it could go home. In case it had a fox family of its own. 

How sweet is that! 

This was Caden's plan. You can see the arrow in the middle showing the direction of the trap route.