Creative time with my boys....

Monday 29th August 2016

Yesterday afternoon my boys came home from their Dads and got straight into making their Book Week parade costumes for this morning.

Firstly, they looked through their books and after a few mind changes decided on Steve and The Creeper from Minecraft (which is also a household favourite xbox game - I love how it unleashes so much creativity and with the help of the instruction books it also gets them reading).

Then we had to figure out how to make a costume.  

The boys decided on box character heads and normal clothes to match.  We found some boxes in the shed and overcome the frustration at not having the right size boxes with a little quick thinking to rebuild them to the right size (no easy task let me tell you).

Then we wrapped the boxes in white paper so we had a clean slate to work with.  We then flicked through the books to choose our design and drew it up on the box.

  

Next job was to cut out paper shapes, stick them on and then finish them off with either paints or crayons.

Once all done, we placed them beside the heater to dry.

As you can imagine there was so much excitement getting ready this morning and it was decided that riding scooters to school with box heads was not the safest of ideas LOL.