A fantastic day at the Home Educator’s Discovery Day at the New Art Gallery in Walsall. The children love the Disco gallery there anyway, but today there were loads of activities around the whole gallery. We started off in the discovery gallery, then went up to the activity room where there was coffee (Yay!) and clay, colouring and balloons to blow up for the kids. Around the galleries there were craft activities. Alfie loved the potatoes and sticks to make animals from. He spent ages building various animals with amazing concentration. Holly built a couple then we went off looking at the art work, doing jigsaws and playing with her balloon whilst Alfie carried on. We went up onto the roof terrace, made badges in the art library, went into the balloon room (2000 giant purple balloons in a small room! The kids loved it and were screaming their heads off. I wasn’t too sure myself and kept losing them which was a bit scary lol!), did more clay sculpting and building with zoobs, read some books, chatted to lots of the other lovely home educators we met there (many old friends, some new). A truly fantastic day

Back home, we put the first sticker on our weather chart, made play dough dinosaurs, made vegetable and butterbean soup, spring cleaned the lounge (OK, we were searching for a lost Peppa Pig DVD which resulted in us clearing out various cupboards and moving furniture to be faced with thick grey dust and fluff we just couldn’t ignore so had to get the polish out lol!)and read the new books we got for free with World Book Day tokens