Buddies ~ cloud busters and pizza

 ***In September 2011 6 families got together and started Buddies Home School. Each week we meet in each other's home and follow a simple rhythm: movement and music, craft/ baking, snack time, free play and story time. Each part of the session is led by a different family. We are sharing this week's session with you here...***

Summer has brought a wee change to our normal Buddies structure. We are starting later and we have a wider age range as older siblings are off school. So we have loosened our program some what. We sang our welcome song and moved straight on to our first activity which was preparing lunch.

 Our chef had pre-prepared pizza dough and each Buddy got a lump to kneed and roll into a pizza base.

 We topped the bases with tomato sauce, cheese and salami

 The Buddies played while they baked in the oven and hungrily gobbled up every scrap.

 Mummies had a lovely pizza too with a gorgeous mixed salad

 enjoyed to Joa's  muzak (Ricki Martin over and over and over and over again)

 After lunch was cleared away we started our craft.

Because the weather has been so, so awful I decided we needed to make some cloud busters.

We poured some dried rice into little freezer bags and secured them.

We then wrapped that in some sheep's wool (you could use any stuffing really)

We wrapped that in a piece of scrap material and secured with an elastic band.

The kids who wanted to added a design to the front using embroidery thread. The tails are long scraps of material tied around the elastic band.

Then we went outside to bust those clouds away.

 And do you know what, they actually worked...

for a while at least :-)