Happy Mother's Day

We spent all week making our special mother's day paintings. We were very excited to do some special 'magical' painting for the background. All you need is a white crayon and some watered down paint and you can reveal your invisible drawings!

Than we made hand-prints with grey paint, trying to make out thumb stick out a bit so the elephant's trunk could meet with the mummy elephant.

We wrote our name on the back in our neatest writing for our special Mummies. We are so blessed!

We thought about what our mummies do for us. They do our hair nicely, cook beautiful dinners, give us cuddles, make us laugh, love and look after us, even when they feel poorly and tired, and so much more! Every day is a day to say thank you, but especially Mother's Day!

What other animals could you make using hand painting?

A Pandemonium of Parrots

We now have a 'company' or 'pandemonium' of parrots in our jungle corner! (No, I didn't know that was the collective noun for a group of parrots either!)

They really are a funny bunch, and any resemblance to the penguin in Wallace and Gromit with a rubber glove on his head is purely accidental! All made by us!

First, choose which colour of card you would like and draw round your foot onto it. (This is harder than it looks!) This will be the body.

Then, do some colourful hand-painting (about 7 should be plenty). Remember to roll your sleeves up, wear an apron and not touch anything until you are clean again!

Note: Some children will thoroughly enjoy getting stuck in!

 Finally, when everything is dry and cut out, assemble your 'feathers' to make a 'pretty polly'! Add googly eyes and a beak to finish.

Don't you think they look fantastic?!