Olympic Extravaganza! 🥳🏅🌍 🐆
Sporty games at home, a quiz on who would win the Olympics in the animal kingdom, & a delicious summertime treat 🌟
Did you know, the Olympics began in Ancient Greece to honour the Greek God Zeus almost 3000 years ago? Check these pictures and info below from the BBC:
Today, athletes from all over the world 🌍, including a team for refugees, come together to compete with the values of excellence, respect, and friendship.
What if … the Olympics took place in the animal kingdom?
With all the excitement of the Olympics going on, I bring you a special animal Olympics edition! This includes land and water based animals as well as insects. *Answers will be at the end of the newsletter*
🥇Can you guess the fastest animal on the planet?
🥇What is the strongest animal compared to their own body weight?
🥇What is the biggest?
🥇Which can jump the longest relative to their body length? I’ll give you a hint, it’s a lot smaller than a kangaroo.
🥇Best team worker?
Eaton Mess Recipe 🍓🌟
This classic summertime treat is as fun to make as it is delicious to eat!
Ingredients:
Strawberries
Heavy cream
Vanilla extract
Shop bought meringues
Sugar
Method:
Chop your strawberries and place half in one bowl.
Macerate the other half of your chopped strawberries in another bowl. Macerating means adding some sugar and mixing briefly - it helps the strawberries to naturally release their juice into a syrup. Within 10 minutes of the sugar sitting with the strawberries you’ll see the difference in texture. If your strawberries are ripe you wont need too much sugar, 1 teaspoon is enough for a cup of strawberries. We like to squish ours with a fork to create a jammy consistency.
Whip your cream and add a splash of vanilla extract.
Crumble your meringues.
Mix the meringues into the whipped cream. We like to have an almost equal ratio of meringue to whipped cream.
Fold in your fresh and macerated strawberries.
Enjoy!
Games at home!
Feeling sporty? Here are some game ideas you can do at home! On your marks, get set, go!
🥚🥄 Egg and spoon race
Daredevils can use a real egg, perhaps a grape will do just fine! Set up a race track/obstacle course at home and place your egg (or grape) on a spoon to see who can get through the race without dropping it!
🎳 Bowling
Set up some empty water bottles in a triangle and roll a ball to see how many bottles you can knock over or even get a strike!
🎯 Bullseye
Set up a target - an empty water bottle works great. Use soft toys/rolled socks to see who can knock it over from a distance.
❄️ ‘Snowball’ fight
Split into teams, build forts and use crumpled up pieces of paper for your ‘snowball’ fight!
🧻 Dining table air hockey
Grab 2 toilet rolls as your paddles, a round lid for your puck, and line your tables edges with books to create a border. Stand on opposite ends of the table and try to slide the puck past your opponents defences!
What are your favourite games at home? Let me know at hello@hanaleeproductions.com 😊
Results: Animal kingdom Olympics
🥇 Gold for the fastest animal on the planet is the Cheetah! They can run at speeds up to 70 miles per hour! 💨
🥇First place for the strongest animal goes to … drum roll please!! The Dung Beetle! Dung beetles can lift objects over 1000 times their own weight!!! 💩
🥇The biggest creature on our planet is the Blue Whale - they can grow to around 30 meters long! Check out this short video of a blue whale encounter! 🐳
🥇Winner of the long jump is the flea - yup, you read that right - the humble flea. They can leap 50 times their body length … which is incredible, just not ideal for pets.
This is not an image of a flea but a grumpy dog that may have them … 🙃
🥇Now this one is my personal opinion, but I think Gold for teamwork has got to be awarded to the honeybee. Each hive has around 60,000 honeybees working together in harmony. Now that’s a lot of moving parts!!! Each honeybee has a distinct role to play and they even have a special waggle dance to communicate location, distance, and quality of food sources. I am also partial to honey. Here’s a photograph I took, I was lucky enough to try the honey from this beekeepers hive and it was super delicious! So floral and fresh 🍯🐝🌼
Your turn, which animal would you choose for acrobatics? Maybe a monkey, or a bird swooping and doing loop-de-loops to catch an insect for lunch? How about other sports?
Let your imagination run wild 🌟 You are so creative and I love hearing your ideas, let me know at hello@hanaleeproductions.com
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