Easter bucket list - Farm trip

 WARNING -  picture heavy post

Today we had our trip to the hop farm.

On arrival,the website and their Facebook website it was listed FREE entry but I had read on facebook on a friends status that the farm is now 1O tokens to get in a token being £1 per token

which even at that price I didn't think was to bad, As we got their we were greeted with the £1 parking fee again not to bad but what about this FREE entry?

the FREE entry allows you to walk into the hop farm, play area and crazy golf 

but everything else costs from 1 token right up to 5 tokens per person

I knew some rides you had to pay for but not all

so much for the FREE entry huh?

Don't get me wrong I didn't expect it all for free but it would have been nice for the FREE entry to have been a bit more clear stating that the farm wasn't free 

Luckily because I read previously that you had to pay for entry to the farm animals and the rides being from £1-£3 I had some cash on me but only ended up purchasing 1O tokens

when we got closer to the farm section there was a maximum of 1O animals which I wasn't willing to pay £1O to spend 2 minutes in there. 

It was a little bit chilly so that put a downer on that part of the day if it was warmer and I had some more money on me I'd have been more than happy to stay longer and let the girls have a few go's on the rides and go into the farm but with me taking up a token to it just wasn't worth doing or going on half the things as I would have no money left after going on 2-3 things the £5O I took with me really wasn't enough to cover the day like I had thought :(

So after a go on a few rides we decided we'd head to broaditch farm for the Easter bunny hunt and the Easter wonderland the entry for these were £8 each for the combo for children and £1 for adults 

BARGAIN!! 

Although broaditch farm isn't the kind with animals 

I really cannot recommend broaditch farm enough I can't wait to get involved in the other activities through out the year, their Halloween event is high up on my list I chickened out last year!

The easter wonderland was a alice in wonderland theme Alice leads you through wonderland to the white rabbit who reads you a story then you head off to get a gift (totally unexpected)

The gift was such good quality too, they got to choose from an chocolate egg and egg cup or a mug.

Then we headed off to the bunny hunt soooo much fun

you walk through the woods looking for clues each bunny you came across had a name and a number which with those names and numbers you had to work out what it was it said on your worksheet 

we also had to look out for some other woodland creatures, carrots and radish

Once we were done we had to head back to the farm to collect our prizes again AMAZING quality there's 4 baskets of toys to choose from or a big chocolate bunny.

There was also the awesome barrel buggies at £1.5O a go I was just gutted I couldn't have a go :( 

Have you visited a farm this easter?

Easter bucket list - Bulb potting

Today we got to do some bulb potting with my mum in the pots we had decorated earlier on in the week :)

I'd have loved to have got pictures with my mum in them but she would have gone nutts at me.

I'm so excited to see and photograph the progress with the girls 

and hopefully keep them alive (I'm the worse gardener ever) 

 

Easter bucket list - Decorate plant pots

Today we got to tick another thing of our Easter to do list and got the paints out again to decorate some plant pots.

Such a cheap and fun thing to do my pots cost me £1.5O each for a 23cm pot from wilkinsons

I plan to go back and get a few in different sizes as the girls had so much fun painting them, Daisie is still to finish her's but we have plenty of time to add extras to it :)

I love how the girls were total opposites and Issy painted in brights while Daisie painted in pastels.

I plan on getting some more this size and doing hand print tulips on them but today 

I thought I'd let the girls go wild and do whatever they wished to do and it was a total hit Issy was asking could she finish Daisie's so next time I shall be grabbing extras.

What you will need

- plant pot

- paints

- paintbrush 

- some clothes you don't mind the kids getting messy in 

Have you been up to some super cheap crafts this Easter holiday?

Easter bucket list - Pasta necklaces

Please excuse the quality of photos my partner used my camera last night and decided to let me know the battery was low when I turned it on to a 'NO battery' alert :(

So the trusty phone camera had to do.

While preparing a home made macaroni cheese the other week it hit me that using the pasta to decorate and make necklaces/bracelets with would be a great cheap bit of fun.

So today we gave it ago out in the garden as the weather was nice and they could make as much mess as they liked.

I grabbed some penne pasta too while doing the food shop just to mix it up and have the option of two different shapes,feels,length etc.

We finally got to give our ELC paints and a go and the colours are soo gorgeous!

You'll need

- string

- paints

- glue (optional)

- glitter (optional)

- macaroni pasta 

- penne pasta

Do you have any cheap crafts planned for the Easter holidays?

Things to do this easter holidays by Issy 6

This morning I asked Issy what she would like to do over the easter holidays 

I was planning a post of what to do over the holidays anyway but then I thought even better

I'll do a list of the things Issy would like to do (what better then hearing it straight from a child)

What Issy would like to do

Swimming - depending on what kind of swimming pool you go to it can be a pretty cheap day out for all of the family, It was strange Issy suggested this because she refused to set foot or even consider swimming since 2O12 when she fell under water while on holiday, She has attempted once since and lasted not even 5 minutes in the pool but she wants to go so she can do some doggy diving (basically jump into the pool)

Picnic - Brilliant cheap day out if the weather is on your side this Easter holiday.

Visit family - Issy would really like to go and visit her cousins and nanny.

Park days - Lovely FREE day out unless you have a boating lake kind of park like we do with bouncy castles, go karts and a train that takes you round the huge field or the little mini fun fairs like to arrive and pitch up. 

Soft play -  Hours of fun again nice and cheap if you go to the right one. We have one that has a bowling alley beside it but the girls haven't showed much interest in it yet they just dive straight into the soft play and this one is amazing as it has a bar and food right beside it so we can still see the girls and chill out over lunch and a drink (we don't go for meals very often so this is amazing for us to have some us times with the girls still in sight)

Cafe lunch  -  Both my girls love a subway and I love the prices of their kids paks, you can't beat a cafe lunch and then head off to a park.

Make chocolate milk  - with cream and marshmallows on the top, I usually do the girls hot chocolates like this in the winter but I don't see why it can't work in the summer with chocolate milkshake.

Mummy's ideas

Visit a farm - If the weather is on your side a farm where you can feed the animals makes a great day out, We have one local that is really cheap to visit and you buy buckets of food for something like £2 and the entry isn't much more than £3 either.

Decorate plant pots & plant some flowers - I got this great idea from one of the lovely mums I follow on instagram @kellyf1990 I really want to pretty up my front & back garden and what better way with not only flowers but with plant pots decorated by the girls? 

Egg hunt - Mentioned in a previous post ever since Issy was old enough to go hunting I've done a little Easter egg hunt for her every year, I didn't plan on one this year but when in Iceland she spotted the pretty foil covered miniature eggs and said we needed some for a hunt so how on earth could i say no?

Pasta necklaces -  While making a macaroni cheese the other week it hit me that it would be the perfect crafty fun to make some pasta necklaces/bracelets with the girls and super cheap too!

Do you have any plans for this Easter holiday?

The girls easter baskets

The baskets I ordered for the girls easter baskets finally arrived this morning

so I could finally pack them up and as always I realized I really haven't got a lot to put in them :/

Aswell as these baskets they will have an egg each and an easter egg hunt to take part in.

I think I may get them a DVD each to add to their baskets too, so far they have 

- bunny ears 

- piggy bank

- chocolate coins

- bag of chocolate eggs

- paint your own egg kit

- decorate your own chocolate egg

- make & paint your own little mirror

I would get them a teddy each but I'm forever falling over teddies ATM and it drives me crazy putting them a way every other day.

They also have a bag of stuff to share

- book

- bunny marshmallows

- bag of haribo Easter gummy sweets
- egg box of egg bathbombs

 

Easter egg hunt

I've said all year I'm not going to get to much chocolate in because every year we end up with LOADS of Easter chocolate that never gets eaten or hangs around for ages until someone scoffs it or I throw it out.

But every time I pop to the shops I see such cute packaged chocolate!

I was only getting the coins, eggs and bunny's for the hunt but then I popped to Tesco and poundland and came across the cute carrots,chicks and little rabbit teddy foil packaged eggs & bunny shapes