Kiddiecraft

Getting the girls well trained

Yesterday Emily (just 3) painted a dinosaur pencil holder and today they both painted wooden flower fridge magnets. This afternoon, after swimming we used the left over paints to colour strips of fallen eucalypyus bark Aborgininal style with symbols, dots and colours of earth, sky, bushland and water!

Got to get my thinking cap on for next week - bought lots of things with me but need to keep coming up with new ideas using limited resourses! STill haven't opened the french knittng or origami animals but the sticker books are going down well - no wonder my suitcase was so heavy.

They wont want you to leave Jane

You can have them make what we used to call "woolly bully families" - little people made from wool wound around Betamax cases in those days he he. Get two shanks, with the first one tie a thread of wool around to form a head, another at waist level and split the bottom half in two and tie to form feet. With the second shank tie at both ends to form hands and slot through the middle of the "body" one to form his arms The kids used to have loads of fun doing them with various faces, hairstyles etc Very cheap to make and used to be a way of using up odds and ends of wool as I used to knit and crochet a lot in those days

Ooohhh that brings back memories Jen Used to like making those

I can remember making the too Jen

My granddaughters make them too and my daughter, who is a teaching assistant has her pupils making them too he he

I loved it he he Actually its a good way of making tassels now for cards, but using embroidery shanks as a starting point I'm such a cheapskate honestly he he

might have to raid Lincraft to find some cheap wool then!

Good morning Jane

Morning Jan - off on the school run in a couple of minutes - cool 17 at the moment but hey, its only 8.30am

put a minus infront of that and you will have the temp here

Here are the girls crafting efforts - Emily, just 3 did the dinosaur and 2 flowers Sophie, 5 did the rest.


PS its 5.00pm and 37 at the moment!

These are what I made this morning

The dinosaur is fab Jane and the bark paintings are lovely
Great cards

They are lovely Jane

Lovely cards Jane

Great artwork Emily and Sophie

Talented girls there Jane Your cards are lovely too

They are lovely Jane and the bark painting has given me some food for thought for a card or two

All this dry weather means there's lots of eucalyptus bark around


Sorry to be a pain but I'm actually beginning to envy you all back in cold UK. Its still over 30 outside and its after 8.00pm with the sun going down. Certainly needed the swim today. Due to peak at 38 in a couple of days then back to 26 again. All we do is watch the thermometer - no clouds to watch and a breeze is a novelty. Crazy weather on the east coast with some towns in Queensland cut off for 6 weeks because of floods - its not all that warm in Sydney either.

The long walk we did yesterday has taken its toll - walked from Brighton to Glenelg (about an hour each way).
Baby sitting again tonight. My daughter says she's been out more times in a week than the whole of the year so far. We do have our uses!

It's good to be useful isn't it