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Sunday, 18 August 2013

Rafts & Crafts at Tigh Mor

I think the Dad's may have enjoyed this mini raft session (just a tad) more than the little ones, until at least it was time for bobbing them about on Loch Achray :-)

From left: Daisy's Rafty & Jack's GUPJ

Thomas's very sturdy, HMS Warrior complete with pine cone sailors

Emmy & Nia's Berkinshaw Boat, or B&B - one side for beds the other for Breakfast :-) 

The raft line up before the plunge in the loch 

 
They're in and floating!
 
Just enough time afterwards to face paint a sneaky necklace for Daisy and cheeky horses for riders Emmy & Nia, did it come off on the pillow? :-)


Wacky Forth Races

Miraculously we were still able to race the rafts after all the rain, here are this weeks entrants at Cobleland Campsite.

From left; Storm's SEMI came last but not least - someone has to but prizes for all :-) and his sister Faee's Rain Bottle came forth.

Meave's winning raft was The Water Runner, third place was her sister Eilish's, The Raft Laughed (going to be a poet for sure) and second place was their brother Eoghan's Skyless Flight.

Humpty at the finish line ensuring the rafts don't jump the line off to Edinburgh

Saturday, 17 August 2013

Magick Wands

Here are the new magick makers wands for this week at Cobleland campsite..

From left: Zayd's Silver Birch, Muadz Hazel, Rose's Ash, and Rebecca & Mairi's Elder wands

 
Muadz! If you or your Dad is reading this you left your wand in the forest!! Let us know if you would like us to send out to you, otherwise we will keep it as a lovely example for others to help inspire them with their own wands :-)

Wooden Pendants

As the rain was back on at Cobleland - A LOT, we made wooden pendants instead of face painting. Here are some lovely examples...

From left: Mairi, Mum and Becca's sparkly but rustic pendants

 

Here's Euan's brilliantly batty medallion made on the Monday - it was still raining!

Monday, 12 August 2013

Arts & Crafts and a Batty Starlit night at Forest Hills

Three marvellous rafts at Forest Hills (all sporting a new style fishing net) and thanks to all that joined us for a brilliant batty walk that was perfectly finished off with a romantic meteor shower, yay! Brilliant spook too from an excitable Remy and a rather moving, expressive tale from Olivia, hope everyone slept OK? :-z

From left: Katie & Natalie's rafts, Rosie and Amy

Olivia's raft Sunrise proudly reflecting the gold sail in the pond


Wooden Pendants

Zara's lovely pink themed pendant, helped by big brother Dylan and Nathan's more masculine medallion made today at Cobleland....

Zara's pink and glittery pendant

The lads seem to love the Viking alphabet on their medallions!

Sunday, 11 August 2013

Rafts & Crafts

Six crafty lads joined us for Rafts & Crafts at Tigh Mor this week, here's what they came up with...

From left: Max's Lolly of the Loch, along with water ski cone people and Jack's TIBBS

Theo's 'Calum' and Kit's 'Cyclops' - thanks for the tea in a china cup Theo's & Kit's Mum :-)

Edward's The Big Fibber (we were playing with lie leaves - alias, broad leaf plaintain) and Thomas's Death Cruiser which escaped for a longer ride on the loch!