At the end of the felting session the girls from craft club got a chance to play with the Big Shot, putting shapes together with a brad to form a brooch.
Simple but fun!
Faith, family and creativity intertwined and inseparable because they are all a part of who I am. My hope is that you might be inspired to explore your creativity too.
Monday, 4 January 2016
Fun with Felt!
This half term we have been felting in craft club. Felt for me is a little bit of magic and never fails to impress. To begin with they were reasonably unimpressed but went with it, we started with simple felt balls, and it was so much fun to see their expressions change as the balls changed in their hands from a ball of soft squidgy wool to a felt bead.
So we then moved on to felt pictures, they loved both the process of building up a picture and then felting it.
They were amazed by it changing size, shape and texture, and for me the acid test of any craft - they wanted to take them home to show mum!
And I had fun too!
Sunday, 3 January 2016
When you wish there was a guidebook...
Parenting is tough, every day we make decisions on behalf of our children. As babies most of these revolve around eating or sleeping, as they grow decisions of discipline and schooling, hobbies, sports, secondary school, options, university. The list is endless! It would be so much easier if there was a book "The definitive guide to Sophie" but there isn't, we base our choices on our relationship with the child and hope and pray that we at least get the big ones right! But more and more lately I have become aware of just how judgemental we can be as a society, of all parents but particularly of difficult children, children with issues, children with special needs!
As Rebecca has grown so have her challenges, and for me the realisation that we would have to fight to get the help she needed. Next term we face the challenge of getting her an educational health care plan, in order to release funding for a TA to assist her, as she prepares to move to secondary school and the challenges that lie ahead when she reaches year 7.
2016 Already!
So as I face a busy term I thought I'd catch up with my blog, only to discover a list of blogs waiting for photo's to complete them before uploading, so here's what I was upto last term, as for this term - I think it will be a case of wait and see!
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