Shona was a Happy Sheep.....

.....as you can see above.

And Daisy is a Groovy Chick!

It is school holiday time again and I wanted to do something creative with my son. Armed with a stack of old magazines, junk mail, some handmade paper and a glue stick we decided to make some collages. Firstly we cut out images that we liked from the magazines and assembled them into a pleasing arrangement on the background paper. I gave my sheep a rather fetching pair of Andi Mcdowell lips and a Boden dress! I thought my son was very creative in his choice of attire for his 'Daisy' collage.
After we decided on the arrangement we stuck down the images with a glue stick. We then chose some words to put on our collages.
I called mine 'Shona was a Happy Sheep' and realised later that I had used the past tense whereas my son had named his in the present tense; 'Daisy is a Groovy Chick'. That really illustrated to me that children really do live in the present moment.

We had a lot of fun making the pictures. My son liked the freedom of cutting out all the different fonts and not worrying about capital letters etc. It really was a 'no rules' crafting activity, inexpensive and fun to do.

When we finished after a couple of hours my son said 'can we do it again tomorrow?'!!!!!