Petal Butterflies

My brothers teacher, Mrs Shaw, challenged him to create butterflies out of flower petals. This may sound weird but it is very cool. This looked way to fun for just my brother to have a go so my whole family joined in and made some. You make them using the parts of flowers including the petals and the inner part of the flower. We used Nasturtium, Pansy, Alysum, Chickory, Shirley Poppys, Marigold, Salvia and a few other not sure of names. Here are my family's creations - 

Cracking Chocolate Chip & Apricot Muffins!

Every week back at school we had Tech, we rotated through 3 classes, cooking, woodwork and sewing. But, because of Covid - 19, we can't go to school or have our sewing, woodwork and cooking teachers teach us. So, most family's are making there own Tech. Mrs Bennett set the challenge of an invention test. We could choose to incorporate Eggs, Chocolate, Fruit or Cheese. You had to a least chose one or more. I chose to use Eggs, Chocolate and Fruit. I made Chocolate chip and Apricot Muffins. Here's how to make them I also took pictures of each step. 

This recipe make 12 muffins
Ready in about 30-35 mins 

Ingredients -
1 3/4 cup flour 
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup of sugar
2 Eggs
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup of oil
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 cup chocolate chips 
2/3 dried apricot (cut coarsely) 

Directions -
Preheat oven to 176 degrees Celsius
Grease or put liners into 2 muffin pans  

In a small bowl mix together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder

and salt.

In a larger bowl mix the sugar, eggs, milk, oil and 

vanilla.

Mix in the dry ingredients until combined. 

Then fold in 

the apricots and chocolate chips.

Then scoop the batter into the muffin pans

and sprinkle sugar on top

The final product should look like this -

Autumn Acrostic Poem

About a week ago I wrote an Autumn Acrostic Poem. Here it is -

A = Acorns fall like missiles from broad tree branches  

U =  Umber leaves raked into a pile

T = Tranquil waters descend to lower temperatures 

U = Unfallen leaves ready to drop when a bitter gust of wind blows

M = March the 20th is here again, Autumn blows in

N = Next year the same will happen again!

Have you written a Acrostic Poem before? 

2 Week Drawing Challenge

One of my fellow class mates, Isabel. Recently created a 14 day challenge I thought it was a great idea and decided to make my own. However, I changed it up a little and instead of having random tasks like for example - Read a book about a famous person or learn what X axis and Y axis is. I did drawing related tasks. Here it is -

The photo didn't turn out very well so, if you can't read the tasks in the boxes here is what each one says -

Day One - Yourself
Day Two - Your favourite animal
Day Three - Your favourite food
Day Four - Your dream house 
Day Five - Your Best Friend
Day Six - The cover of your favourite book
Day Seven - Your favourite dessert
Day Eight - Something in your favourite colour for example - If your favourite colour was Blue then you could draw a Blue T-Shirt.
Day Nine - A character or scene from your favourite movie
Day Ten - Your favourite lolly for example you could draw a lollipop
Day Eleven - An outfit
Day Twelve - A Christmas present you wish to receive
Day Thirteen - A place you'd like to visit
Day Fourteen - ANYTHING AT ALL! 

Tin Stilts

Because of the Corona Virus outbreak and being at home in Isolation, my brother and I have been busily creating. A couple of days ago we made a pair of stilts. Here's how we made them. We used 2 tin cans like this one - 

Then we flipped then upside down and drilled 2 holes in the sides. Next we threaded some rope through the holes. I made a diagram below to help you understand the steps -

After walking on them for a while they slowly break so I recommend using Golden/Maple syrup cans because they are stronger. My brother and I made another pair of stilts afterwards using wooden blocks.