Getting creative

Everybody around here has been getting a bit creative! Sewing, painting, making and baking. Educationally (as that's what needs justifying in my head today!) this has involved quite a lot of planning, measuring, note making and explaining.  We have researched ideas together and I have watched as they have persevered and seen the pleasure when it all comes good.

Oliver planned and made a monster toy for a friends birthday.

Cutting from his pattern

sewing on the button eyes

stitching the tummy pocket

Wand in pocket and ready to go!

A very happy boy.

Mia has been doing soooo much colouring lately her fingers are almost permanently stained. She has also been writing lots of little notes to people, making cards and even decorating herself!

 prom dress optional

colouring

Practicing painting flowers

William has been filling sheets of paper with his own made up pokemon. He thinks he is now going to arrange them into a book. They are very small, almost 20 to a page, but full of the most minute details. He has also been sewing by hand and with the machine to make a gift for his best friend Emily.

52 pokemon and counting

Planning his pattern

Cutting fabric

Battys wing

Ta dah!

Now, David is the quiet one! You think he's off in his room being all teenagery and start to quiz him on "what have you actually done today?" and he can reel off a whole list of things and talk/show you all about them. Often its things he's read about in the news or seen on a blog, very often its something creative or architectural and lots of times its photography. He's also got a huge pile of books hes working through in an order only he can make sense of. My brain couldn't keep track but he likes to dip in and out when the mood takes him. Currently on the go are, Of mice and men, around the world in 80 days, City of fallen angels and Scat. At his request we have also just purchased some fab Shakespeare books with notes and historical information and a rhyming dictionary!

making gaffer tape wallets for friends

Helping Ollie with some maths

Best big brother ever!
(he had a sleepover and midnight feast with Mia when nobody else would)