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Caterpillar corn shaker

Before getting distracted by dinosaurs we were focusing on the letter C this past week. We ‘camped’ outside, chased chooks, made chocolates and read The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

‘camping’ in our backyard

After seeing some great corn shakers and caterpillar crafts in blogland we decided to combine the two into a caterpillar corn shaker! We used a cardboard roll and Master D painted it up before we added our corn, sealed the ends and added the final details.

Since then Little Miss Q has been enjoying listening to caterpillar corn shaker music 🙂

And here are our fingerprint caterpillars too (I can’t remember which blog inspired this painting – let me know if it was yours!).

Thanks for reading, Kelly

October 27, 2011 by

Dinosaur hands (sort of)

We’ve gone dinosaur crazy here, so for our painting this week we stuck to theme.

Master D turns everything into ‘dinos’ – he bent all of his lego people over ‘like crawling dinos mum’, and even his fingers and toes became dinos during a long drive 🙂 His dino craze inspired me to paint his hands into dinos (or try to anyway – check it out for yourself ;-)).

We found some face paint and used a foam paint brush to cover his hands in his chosen colours ‘a red t-rex and a black squawking one please’. Then we stuck on some googly eyes, before painting some sharp teeth and spikes. Since the dinos were already playing when I was trying to paint the details this did get a bit tricky!

We might try some other animals next 🙂

Thanks for reading, Kelly

October 25, 2011 by