It is often difficult to encourage children to walk, so this weekend the 'walk' was made less traumatic for everyone by combining it with a hunt for possible pirate legs. There are eight years between my children and when my son was younger we used to do this and then make the pirates out of air drying clay, incorporating the twigs, shells and other found objects.
This weekend we did not have air drying clay, but we did have art materials so these are some of our pirates. Freya has given one of her colourful pirates a trumpet which was a dried flower that fell out of one of my old sketch books.
totally wonderful as always.... but to be fair to kids, sometimes it's hard to get adults to walk too!
ReplyDeleteTrue! I haven't tried it with adults :-)
DeleteTrue! I haven't tried it with adults :-)
DeleteI'll be using this idea on our next bush walk! They look great too!
ReplyDeleteKangeroo tails, cassowary feet and kookaburra laughter :-D Have fun X
DeleteIt's the parrot on top of the head - so great.
ReplyDeleteNice to see these on this rainy cold day and imagining riding around in your pocket on the lookout for pirate legs!
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