Category Spring
Seurasaari, Helsinki
One of the places we regularly go to in Helsinki, it always offers something: a place for adventure when it is dark, a busy Christmas event or the beauty of summer. It is known for the squirrels and birds tame enough for feeding but last when we went there on a cold and grey spring day, we […]
Board walks in Torronsuo
We had a lovely day out yesterday: we drove about 1,5 hrs north west from Helsinki to Torronsuo, a swamp a little south of Forssa. There they have built lovely board walks around and across the swamp, which are fun to walk on even for kids. There is also 200 metres of board walk to […]
Healthy Baking
On the 1st of May we eat doughnuts and drink sima in Finland. And buy balloons and go for a picnic. And we get the day off, so I invited my kids to bake an easy alternative of the doughnuts with me. In that one we deepfry doughnut balls in oil and then roll them […]
Find a Bug
I did it on a spur of a moment but our children loved this! When I saw the book, “spot a bug”, on sale for a couple of euros, I bought it hoping we’d get some use out of it when camping in the summer. I don’t know too much about bugs because…ewww! But kids […]
Happy Free Cows
After a long winter in a barn, the cows of the Helsinki University were let out on May 7th. It’s lovely that they announced the time! Probably hundreds of city people gathered there to do the countdown, see the doors open and the cows run and jump out of joy on the pasture. They’d made […]
Mother’s Day Flower Picking
Awww, the simple joys! Ever since I was small we’ve picked these white flowers to Mum on Mother’s Day. When I told my husband about it, he’s seen to it that I get some too. This year he’s at work but I suggested we’d go and pick some with the kids. They were very excited! […]
Cultural Afternoon
First off was an interactive folk music show by the trolls Skrubiluttan and Skrubiluttan at Lilla Luckan (were we’ve been many times before for various cultural events for children in Swedish). My boy helped the musicians by playing along with his ukulele (kids were encouraged to do that but he was the only one taking […]
Spring Signs
There is still ice in shady places but this view was very welcome! Winter with snow is fun but after a while spring with more daylight, bird song and flowers fill me with joy.
Puppet Theatre at Winter Gardens
Helsinki Winter Gardens are always lovely, but especially at Easter: kids love looking for all the Easter chicken, eggs and witches that have been hidden among the plants. The Puppet Theatre that was on during Easter holidays didn’t disappoint this time either: the story was about Pessi and Illuusia, the troll that met a fairy […]
DIY Spring Flowers
At the Chinese New Year a lady cut lovely snow flakes out of napkins, which got my daughter into cutting snowflakes again. After a while she requested coloured paper as she decided to make “spring flowers” instead. We found they look pretty as such but when our spring making factory attached a few on each other, we […]
Free But Fun 