What's On - Burns Night

For those of you that don't know, it's Burn's Night on 25th January and to celebrate the life and poetry of Robert Burns many Scots will be eating haggis and drinking whisky at Burns Suppers around the country.

Have you made plans to celebrate yet? I've got a few ideas for you...

Bairns Brave Burns Lunch at The National Piping Centre

Big Burns Supper in Dumfries just got bigger! It's the world's biggest Burns Night celebration. There are loads of events on up until 31st January including Hamish the Haggis's Mini Burns Supper for the kids.

Hue & Cry are also playing a gig on Sat 31st January. I grew up listening to the Hue & Cry brothers and vividly remember writing about them in one of my primary school jotters as we spotted them one weekend. I spelt the name wrong, and my teacher had to correct it! I still enjoy listening to 'Looking for Linda' every so often *sings* Never stop looking, never stop looking... Such good memories!

There is also a super handy Six Step Guide on hosting your own Burns Supper which you will find here. And there's also this post over at Life With Munchers with some food, decor and activities that you should take a peek at.

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For other ideas on activities to try at home, have a look at an older post of mine on 30 Braw Things to do Before You're Three.

{January Joy - 25th Jan}

The #JanuaryJoy prompt for today is 'do something/go somewhere you have never been before...'. 

Hmmmm..... this certainly got me thinking!!

What could I realistically do that I haven't done before?? *puts thinking cap on* (and wheesht you all with the dirty minds!!!!)

Today is Burn's Night and I've never hosted a Burn's Supper before, but it's sort of short notice to organise something... next year perhaps!

I'm reckoning I should try and do something Scottish to celebrate Robert Burns so I think this morning the kids and I will bake some shortbread. This is something I've never done before, but it's one of my resolutions to bake/cook more with the children and I've managed quite a few things in January so far.

 

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We're also going to a friend's for lunch so it would be nice for us to have something homemade to take with us. 

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If we can get a recipe that works, perhaps this will solve the problem of what to put with the heart straws for our Valentine's Day favours!

Next week is the last week of Florence Finds #JanuaryJoy - I've really enjoyed it and Rebecca's prompts have certainly got me thinking. Just 4 more to go... can you believe January is nearly over already!?!

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{Play Talk Read}

Have you heard of PlayTalkRead's '30 Things to do Before You're Three' list?

It's a fairly new initiative from the Scottish Government to encourage simple fun for little ones and basically it's the ultimate children's checklist of things to do in the early years.

I thought I'd share the New Year's list with you here as it's Scottish themed with some Burn's Night activities thrown in.

For those of you that don't know, it's Burn's Night on Friday 25th January and to celebrate the life and poetry of Robert Burns many Scots will be eating haggis and drinking whisky at Burns Suppers around the country.

30 Braw Things to do Before You're Three

1. Try a new fruit or vegetable in season
2. Make a thank you card for Santa with help
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3. Help mum or dad plant daffodil bulbs for spring
4. Learn the actions to Auld Lang Syne
5. Dance a jig on Burns night
6. Make a seasonal calendar for the year ahead
7. Eat haggis, neeps and tatties on Burns night
8. Make a phone using two cups and string and pretend to call a friend
9. Learn a new Scots word
10. Make a Loch Ness Monster out of play dough
11. Colour in a picture of Rabbie Burns
12. Make a castle with chairs and sheets & pretend to be a clansman
13. On a dreich day, learn to do a roly-poly indoors
14. Make a paper aeroplane
15. Go on a blue and white scavenger hunt around your hoose
16. Have a teddy bear’s picnic
17. Make an obstacle course indoors
18. Make and fly a kite with help from mum or dad
19. Learn the story of Robert Burns
20. Draw or paint a saltire yer face with help from mum or dad
21. Get wrapped up and visit a Scottish landmark 
22. Find where you live on a map of Scotland with help from mum or dad
23. Snuggle up under a blanket for a Scottish story
24. Make yer own paper cup Scotsman
25. Make shortbread with help from mum or dad
26. Make a wee moose with help from mum or dad
27. Moo like a Hielan coo
28. Paint yer own tartan
29. Sing along to ‘You Cannie Shove Yer Grannie of a Bus'
30. Challenge mum or dad to tug o’ war in your own Hielan Games

The PlayTalkRead bus is also going to be in Renfrewshire next week where your little ones can enjoy special Burn's day activities and crafts.