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On with our puppet project … the farmer sure needs a wife, here she is: Let’s Meet The Players: Fabric scraps Cardboard white project glue, slightly diluted with water, for easier use. A skewer Let’s Play The Game: Select the fabric you want for your farmers wife and cut out the pieces of fabric. Paint [...]

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Meet our Farmer puppet… Let’s Meet The Players: For the head: A small balloon, we used a water bomb balloon. Wall paper paste glue. Strips of newspaper. For the body: An empty soda bottle. A skewer. Some fabric scraps. Some white project glue, slightly diluted so that it is easier to spread. Let’s Play the [...]

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One of the the things on our rapidly growing list of things to do in Winter… was “Show Time”: And we have been going a bit puppet mad over here just lately… and just supposing you wanted to see us making puppets then this is the week to watch the Expresso Show on SABC3… because [...]

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The Crafty Crow is hosting a couple of weeks of the most fabulous book crafts!!! Some of the cutest crafts I have ever seen are being posted daily over there right now!!! Meanwhile if you would like to know how to make a Stick Man Puppet… From the brilliant book Then head straight over to [...]

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When I heard Lilla A was calling for Self-Portraits I knew it was time for us to do a little Art-Appreciation… and some exploring in the world of Picasso… Let’s begin with some fabulous links: My Kids Art has a great page for Picasso: biography, artworks and fun facts. Heaps of Picasso lesson plans and [...]

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We have made a Rollicking Rocket before and when the father person came home from work with a large box we knew that we needed to make a sinking submersible… It involved a fair amount of digging in the recycling… and one or two disasters before we made our prototype!!! Don’t be afraid to try [...]

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We managed the Wonderland, but not the winter so much!!! We have been saving up drinks bottles and clay to join Lilla a in her Winter Wonderland Exhibition… Keep in mind that our idea of winter is severely limited and includes trips to the beach. And our only experience of snow came in a box… [...]

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