Sheep in the meadow

Another weekend gone and a new day of school for S. Its hard to get her to concentrate on crafts now, because she’s way too busy pretend teaching her various toys.
But she was singing a song about little sheep and mother sheep, so I thought her I’d entice her with a little bubble wrap meadow and cotton sheep.
Its really simple actually and all we used was -

• Bubble wrap to print in the sky and the meadow
• Cotton wool for the ships body and head
• Cotton buds for the sheep’s ears, tail and legs
• Paints, scissors and glue
• And little S ofcourse (not for too long though)

Gave S a child-friendly scissor to cut up the bubble wrap into strips for the sky and the meadow

 S then squeezed out for blue paint for the sky and green (S actually insisted on mixing the blue and yellow to make green) for the meadow, dipped the bubble wrap strip into the paint and began “the masterpiece”

After this point she lost interest and took some paper plates and randomly started to paint it. It could also have been because i kept nagging her to keep the strips in place, not to press the bubble wrap too hard, to press the bubble wrap harder, and nag nag nag (Lesson learnt – when your child is already forced to make a craft with you, let her be…). Anyway, I didn’t want her (READ: MY) project to go to waste, so i stuck on the cotton wool head and body of little sheep and mother sheep, dipped the cotton bud heads into black paint for the tail, ears and hooves (do sheep have hooves or are they called something else?) and left it to dry.
We, in the meanwhile went to the playground and S spent a good hour and a half running around and rolling in the sand. When we got back home, I asked her to clean up for dinner and I was just going to start sticking on the cotton buds when madam arrived and said she’d do it. I was more than pleased!

 I put the glue incorrectly with the legs flailing in the air towards the sky (quickly realized my mistake)

S added the sun with some oil pastels

And blended in the orange

 Little Sheep and Mother Sheep

We have also started some work on a Little crocodile and Mother crocodile, again in bubble wrap (we do have a bagful!). And the story so far is that we’ve rolled up the bubble wrap into a crocodile shape, painted it (mine – green and S – god knows) and left it to dry. Will keep you updated.

Did i mention that when “Father Sheep” came home in the evening, S took all the credit! The pesky little monkey!!!