Alfie's last day at Phoenix house

With Christmas Eve drawing near Alfie our elf will have to head back to the North Pole to help out santa and the other elves. We have had a great time trying to find where he will be every morning, with lots of surprises along the way. Last night Alfie managed to get stuck in the Lego while building! What a silly elf, I wonder who will find him first!! Merry Christmas and a happy new year from all of us here at Phoenix house and Alfie. xx

Christmas Tree Craft

We have been busy creating lots of Christmas art and crafts over the past few weeks getting into the Christmas spirit!
Today we have made Christmas trees out of ice-block sticks and used sequins and gems to symbolize the decorations. The children showed confidence using the hot glue gun and were very creative with the colours and patterns they did when positioning their decorations onto their craft trees :)

Take a look at their beautiful Christmas tree creations :)

Santa's Melting hands

This morning the Phoenix House children had great fun with this sensory play experience of 'Santa's Melting Hands' where they were able to look and touch Santa's magic. In his frozen hands they saw the Reindeers bells, glittery magic as well as Rudolf's red nose along with many other shiny trinkets!!

The children showed such excitement as they managed to transfer some of Santa's magic onto their hands!! :)
It is safe to say we are very excited for Santa's arrival this weekend
xx

Playing with Peanut and Butter

Today it was raining and cold outside so we stayed inside for the morning. But we were excited to see our new bunnies Peanut and Butter. We decided to bring them inside to have a play, we set up the pen with hay and their favourite food- Carrots. Peanut and Butter loved sniffing all the children and getting nice gentle pats from them.

Making Christmas puddings

Today we made Christmas puddings that we will be able to enjoy at our Christmas Party on Friday. We had so much fun decorating them and licking the left over chocolate from the bowl.  Make sure you try these at home, recipe below and they are really easy to make :)

CHRISTMAS MINT SLICE BALLS

 

  20 mins

TOTAL TIME

20 mins

These super simple Christmas Balls made with cream cheese and Mint Slice biscuits are the perfect thing to take to a Christmas party or function!

Author: Bake Play Smile

Recipe type: Christmas

Serves: 20

INGREDIENTS

• 1 X packet Arnott's Mint Slice biscuits
• 125g cream cheese, softened
• 150g melted chocolate (milk, white or dark)
• 20 red M&M minis
• 10 spearmint leaf lollies, cut into slithers

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Crush the Mint Slice biscuits in a food processor or Thermomix.
2. Place into a medium sized bowl.
3. Add 125g of cream cheese and mix well until completely combined.
4. Roll the mixture into heaped teaspoon sized balls and pop onto a baking paper lined tray in the fridge.
5. Take out the red M&M minis from the tube and set aside.
6. Slice the spearmint leaves into tiny slithers (you'll get about 5 out of each leaf) and set aside.
7. Melt the chocolate in a deep and narrow heatproof bowl or ramekin on medium heat (50% power) in the microwave on 30 second bursts for 2-3 minutes, stirring each time (you could also use a double-boileron the stove).
8. Carefully dip your Mint Slice Balls into the chocolate mixture with a fork and place back onto the tray (allow any excess chocolate to drip off).
9. Pop one red M&M mini and two spearmint leaf slithers onto the top of each of the balls.
10. Place back into the fridge to set.
11. Store in an airtight container for 3-4 days.

Our new fur babies

We are so excited to have new fur babies!
Come in and meet our two new bunnies "peanut" and"butter" and also our new budgies "batman" (Green) and "rainbow" (Blue).