Space Theme

I know it is not a popular time of year to cover Space but the Two Seeds

went to a Space themed birthday party so we were inspired.

This is our Sensory Box. 

The Moon

Filled with sand and flour! It's brilliant!

Crystals, glass stones and some space toys.

We kept it simple, you don't need to fill it with expensive stuff.

This is the shot before they played with it.

There is a flat shell and a smooth garden stone too.

Later on they played with diggers and rollers as "moon buggies".

Free play with the space toys that came in a tube.

Found on Amazon.

Melissa and Doug Space floor puzzle. Its gorgeous.

  

3 part cards from here

We have been doing lots of colour mixing to paint planets.

This is our space role play area: a rocket.

Using the 2 cheap bookshelves again, I brought them closer together.

Tied a rainbow silk as a roof ( you can use a sheet), with wooden clips,

tied with string in the middle to my shelf on the wall to give it height.

2 baby chairs for rocket seats, tool kit box to fix the rocket,

food, cushions and silks to sleep in, and of course space helmets.

The brown one is seriously oversized...but he likes it that way!

At the back on the wall is a "window"...a collage of printables that we cut out,

numbers 10-0, planets, stars, etc.

As time has progressed the boys decorated the rockets with decorated stars,

more windows and buttons.

My Life Is Complete! I Made It To Crafty Crow!

I finally did it!

She chose a post of mine to publish on The Crafty Crow!

I can't believe it.

The Crafty Crow been a staple of mine since I started.

It's a great day!

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Watercolours # 4: Storytelling, Wet on Wet

We have been using a Waldorf Curriculum loosely from here

It has some lovely ideas for wet on wet mono-colour painting for poems.

I decided to do a story from our bookshelves, "Jack and The Beanstalk."

This post is just to illustrate the technique which can be adapted to any poem/story/song

that lends itself well.

As I read the book, Big Seed illustrates what I say:

"The mother threw the 5 beans out of the window"

"It grew into a very tall beanstalk."

"At the top was a huge castle."

"There was a huge giant..."

Anyway, you get the idea.

This is the finished painting.

It doesn't matter if objects overlap, are out of proportion, etc

It is the creative process that is important.

Stories with action and movement are the best...jumping, hopping, running around etc.

These are fun for the child to do with their paintbrush.

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Pirate Themed Steiner Birthday Crown

This is my first attempt at a Steiner Birthday Crown.

I needle-felted from L-R

A Robin, skull and crossbones, L, ladybird and bee.

These are Spring things he asked for.

I used orange blanket stitch as this is his favourite colour right now.

He had a Steiner-style party and he invited 4 of his favourite friends.

I kept the numbers low incase it rained too, but it turned out to be great.

I used many ideas from an old post here:

I made our own party bags from pirate fabric
and made " Seaweed Sticks" by attaching ribbons to sticks for them to play with in the garden.

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Spring Nature Prints

Big Seed went to the park and collected a bucket of Spring treasures.

He is really into mixing colours..especially orange.

Orange, orange, orange.

Here are a few things he collected ...

And then he printed with them, exploring shape, texture and colour.

And then... of course

to finish off...

hands!

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Mother's Day Gift Bag

Here's an idea for a Mother's Day gift:

Poppy fabric shopping bag.

Printed with potatoes, carrots and a ruler.

Easy!

Here is what he made me:

a tissue paper flower...

rolled up tissue paper tied with a pipecleaner as a stem.

Lovely 

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Happy Mother's Day to you all!

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Mother Earth and Spring Flower Fairies

"Each of the root-children chose her own colour to make a dress.

The snowdrop chose a snow-white cloth, the forget-me-knot a sky blue piece, the buttercup bright yellow, the daisy white with yellow and a bit of red, and the poppy a bright red."

"As soon as you're ready, I'll unlock and open the doors up to the ground."

"At last it was really Springtime!"

Inspired by "The Story of the Root Children" by Sibylle Von Olfers

and We Bloom Here through Wild Fairie Caps

I made some peg fairies and Mother Earth.

I left them, to dry overnight and when I came downstairs they were covered

in specks of paint from each other.

I asked if the boys had been banging them together?

"Yeah, they have been kissing!"

What can you say... they now have an antique effect.

Nice!

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