Fun stuff for kids and parents

Tried and tested on willing guinea piglets

This optimistic, self-employed writer, translator, columnist and mum knows that with kids, a dash of charm and a good giggle beat fear of failure every time.

So here are some out-of-the-box ideas to keep kids and parents happy for hours...

Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 November 2013

Sweet creepy crawlies...and much more besides at the National History Museum of Denmark

 Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, Cph Ø; open Tue-Sun 10:00-17:00; tickets: over-16s: 75kr, under-16s: 40kr, under-3s free adm; 3532 1001, snm@snm.ku.dk;www.zoologi.snm.ku.dk/english
These terrific photos and more were taken by Thomass Hahan. Smile please!

Incredibly scary or just cute and hairy?

Bra-vo? Is that a bikini she's wearing there? 

And these sculptures were amazing too.

Can't be easy having such long legs. But she seems happy enough.  

Not all spiders are black.

This one looked a little like a Scorpion.


And this leather sculpture was bigger than Jake and Louis.
Not sure they were meant to be sitting on it.

A web site with a difference?

Plenty to learn - even for Jake, who has more than 100 tarantulas - at his dad's :o).

Then when you've seen the spider
exhibition, you can explore the
rest of the museum.

More than enough skeletons to last past halloween.

If you've got the backbone for it.

Cases of skulls...

...that you are welcome to pick up. If you can carry them.

Some are too heavy.

Like this whale.

Or this giant sloth. I like sloths :o). See he's only got three toes.

You can sit for ages enjoying the view.

And marvelling at the smily beasties.

And when you've seen enough, it's bye bye Lucy and off you trot.
Lucy  is estimated to have lived 3.2 million years ago and her skeleton was discovered in 1974.

Thursday, 24 October 2013

Tivoli...the dark side

But great fun for all ages, really though the Scary otel opens at 17:00 and is for kids aged 12 or over. But it all shut down on 27 Oct ready for Christmas preparations so don't miss it.

Lots of props for a party of your own back home.

Cuddly spiders everywhere.

A choice of sticky tricky sweets and drinks. But mind you don't get legless
 in front of the kids - like this skellybones (as my Grandad used to call them).

Looking slightly peaky after a ride on the octopus?
Monster pumpkins.

19,000 pumpkins altogether.

And plenty of scary stuff hidden in flower beds.

A whole house

And a 'make your own pumpkin lantern' stall.

Here are some that were on show. Great fun.

If you haven't made one yet, watch out for our DIY post
showing how we made our lanterns. It'll be along in a couple of days:o)