So I made the polar bear. I made the wolf. With three children, I had to make a third. Options included a tractor, dinosaur or a Totoro. All would have provided a great shape for the millet bag, but due to an (imaginary) Totoro accompanying us on several adventures over […]
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Peace on Earth… and a few extra bits.
School is out. Yeh! Its been busy and I have loved it. We’ve had costume making, one pantomime, one nativity play and two carol concerts. We’ve had successes. One spoke clearly in church so I could hear her, one joined in with all the singing and actions and one danced […]
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Elf points
Busy making magnetic felt Elf points. I’m not using a pattern. I’m doing it freehand. Wherever the needle and thread take me. This is an experiment. Simple idea. Each child can earn Elf points during December, in the same way stickers are handed out for good behaviour or a kind […]
Read moreGreat shrinking jumpers…or the last of the dinosaurs
The last dinosaur is complete. He is a Pterodactyl made out of the softest shrunken woollen vests. He was the one I most wanted to make and the most difficult to get anywhere near right. (Going to make his eyes bigger.) I see TF playing with him in much the […]
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