Oscar has turned six years old!
Recently he's taken an interest in science, chemistry and botany. He often mixes up potions and medicines with his mortar and pestle from leaves and flowers he finds in the garden and then bottles them. I'm always on the look out for interesting bottles and science equipment in the thrift stores and he owns quite a collection of crystals, rocks, shells, bones and birds nests.
So it seemed natural to make it the theme to his birthday party this year.
We managed to find this wonderful old microscope for his birthday present.
We always like to make our party favours and this year Oscar wanted to make a special potion for his friends to take home.
It was called 'swamp potion'.
We decorated the party table in a vintage apothecary style as we already had all these things spread throughout the house.
It was fun pulling it all together to make a wonderful display of interesting things to explore.
As entertainment we had a series of science experiments.
This was a huge hit, just be prepared with towels and water for a quick clean up.
We did the swirling milk experiment ~ process found here
The exploding bag experiment ~ process found here (caused a lot of squealing and excitement)
and finally the erupting volcanic experiment ~ process found here
Because it was afternoon tea, food was simple but effective.
Drinks were served in mini mason jars with a new syringe in each. This was a big hit as they squirted their drinks into their mouths. The fun carried on after as they took them outside and had water fights with them.
I purchased new petri dishes and test tubes. The test tubes I filled with Nerds and the petri dishes I set with lemonade jelly and scattered sprinkles over top to look like bacteria. The effect was excellent.
The cake was my favourite. A basic chocolate cake with chocolate icing. I bought three Crystal Ring Pops and placed them on a mound of icing and covered the plastic pieces with icing. Then I scattered chocolate rocks and popping candy bought from the Lolly Jar. It looked amazing and the popping candy crackled on top of the cake.
Happy Birthday Oscar!
Finally I got the opportunity to take the children up to the top of the hill to experience some snow.
It wasn't a heavy fall but there was enough to get wet, cold and throw some snow balls at each other.
Oscar wasn't too impressed with being wet and cold and he slipped over a few times, but the others loved it.
Oscar's face says it all.
Charlie's snowball destined for Sadie.
Though winter is well and truly still here, spring is forcing it's way through.
Our blossom tree is flowering, early daffodils are blooming and there are plenty of lambs to see in the fields.
We have just got back from six glorious days at the beach. We have many wonderful adventures to share and experienced some of the best dramatic landscape Castlepoint has to offer.
Oscar's favourite beach past time was pipi gathering. He didn't like eating them (Sadie and I did), but he loved digging his toes into the sand and scooping up lovely fresh shellfish.
This is our story of growing up in New Zealand
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