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Mindful Crafting 🍁 Autumnal Leaf Waxing. I've just written a little blog post (link in my bio) about how to make this simple craft a mindful activity for you and your little people. Celebrating the seasons is a really simple and fun way to encourage your child(ren) to love nature, notice the passing of time, and live in tune with the world around them. Plus it makes a really lovely decoration at the end! Swipe to see ours and please share your creations with me ❤️ #heymummawolf

Last week I was lucky enough to win this gorgeous pumpkin hat by @thewoollypuffin in a giveaway and just wanted to share some pictures because it's the world's cutest hat, but also because how much better is it to have a hat made my a human being?! We've talked loads about how someone made this hat with their hands with wool from a sheep and Philly is fascinated. I have a feeling that a Wooly Puffin bonnet for baby Sybil will be arriving from the North Pole sometime soon...

Kids are resilient 🌬️ Philly here telling me she feels tired and cross. Acknowledging discomfort and allowing kids to experience it is a really valuable way for them to practice building their resilience muscles 💪 I'm definitely inclined to want to fix everything for my kids (still probably where I slip up the most with my parenting goals) but allowing children to feel disappointed, uncomfy, frustrated or cross, and gently providing a safe space for the experience is proven to make more resilient adults. While I would love to make a perfect world for my kids, I really value them (all being well) becoming humans who can bounce back and be okay with the turbulence of life. Try sitting on your hands, and allowing your kids to experience some challenges...it's so surprising how fast they evolve. Anyone got any reassuring stories of resilient kids for me as motivation? 😂

There have been a lot of changes for our little family in the last month, which has caused some strong feelings for Philly, and she's been much more sensitive to sensory input. Sensory based activities are really calming for busy brains (adults and smalls alike) but I've been struggling to find a no-effort activity which isn't plastic based. I just unpacked a load of @neogruen modelling dough from @myriadnaturaltoys and setting out a pot of it alongside some leaves, beech nuts and sticks resulted in a beautiful crafting session which actually audibly slowed Philly's breathing, and improved her behaviour and mood for the day. I've been reading up on sensory processing for children and I've realised so many common behaviour challenges in our house come from sensory imbalance. When she starts kicking, hitting, and seems like a ball of angst bombing around the house, laying out an activity which calmly engages her senses has been the next big breakthrough for me. This activity had the bonus of getting her to focus on the colours of autumn and improving her finger strength for fine motor ability 🍁🍂 plus, won't lie the concistency was way nicer than when I attempt to make it (and she hasn't eaten any yet).

We've moved house, no internet, patchy heat, and no oven...chaos and cold! All worth it, as we have found ourselves a truly magical and peaceful home. We did have an excellent Halloween, and have enjoyed a pumpkin for breakfast (pumpkin granola), lunch (pumpkin soup) and dinner (vegan pumpkin macaroni cheese) all vegan, gluten-free recepies courtesy of @minimalistbaker accompanied by a ridiculous amount of sweets. We weren't going to go trick or treating, because I have mixed feelings about what it could potentially teach little ones (plus plastic wrapped sugar) but we ended up trekking out and it was a marvelous way of getting to know our new village. So many people opening their doors with home made goodies, sweets and jokes. I really loved the community feel! What are your thoughts on trick or treating? Any good pumpkin recepies we should try (VG & GF ideally) 🎃🍂🍁

Reuse 🎃🎃🎃 I really wanted to sew Philly's costume this year, but we're moving house in a couple of days, so all my fabrics are packed, and honestly I haven't got a spare moment! We found this costume in the chairty shop and she is over the moon! So many of these plastic-based costumes go to landfill, it's really worth scouting out the second hand/charity shops and Facebook sell for your costumes! Stops them going to waste, and the thrill of your little human getting their costume is just as big for them as if you'd got them new. Halloween is really exciting to me, especially as we didn't celebrate it as kids, but definitely a celebration to be really aware of plastic and single-use waste. Some other ideas I've got for this season are... Making allergy friendly biscuits for trick-or-treaters Making decorations from organic materials (leaves, pumpkins, squashed, beeswax/soy candles) Buying pumpkins that taste good and having pumpkin meals after the big day (recepies to follow) What are your waste reducing tips?? 👻🤡👽☠️💀🧟

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