Show and Tell at school

… and the subject was “RED”. Exciting!!! So I send a distress message… and my awesome family and friend rose wonderfully to the occasion. I got some awesome ideas ranging from a tiny lobster, red riding hood, flamenco dancer, to a collage of different red stuff in different material, to a Matador. Now, I thought the matador idea was super… especially when my cousin pointed out – How cool would it be if a 4 year old started with, ‘In spain,… ‘. But try explaining that to a four year old… She would sing loud songs, whenever I broke into, “In Spain…”

So… I needed to think of something else. I checked with very talented friend (you should check out her site – www.allfamilyholidays.com), and she does some brilliant photography. We source most of our craft ideas from her… (if she does put her stuff on, we’ll be in so much trouble) and she came to our rescue. She gave us a brilliant idea that she saw on Mister Maker that morning, and all we needed to do was incorporate “Red” things into it.

And this is what we came up with, (it did help that we’d been to Kasauli, a hill station and she’d seen a lot of the things we put in, fairly recently)

So what I did was that I drew out rolling hills and the trees, and used Atta (wheat flour dough) to line the hills and tree top). Its better to use playdoh (like my friend did) or sticky tac (like Mister maker did), because atta sticks to the paper.

S then filled in the colours:

S needed a bit of help with the edges

 But no help getting the dough off (she was very cross that I took it off the trees)

Notice the atta stuck

So now all we needed to do was add the elements, S suggested – ladybirds, flowers and apples. Oh yes, she did mention monkeys with red bums, but my drawing talent didn’t stretch that far. We finally did all of this (except the red bum monkey) and added some butterflies (S wasnt’ happy, because the butterflies we saw at Kasauli weren’t red), a helicopter, car and a kite.

We couldn’t find any red buttons, so we painted our own 

Felt for the tiny ladybirds

Rolled up crepe paper for apples

The other elements were helicopter and car with felt (cutting the thick felt was the toughest, even little S volunteered to help me out. She gave up pretty soon), a kite with old gift wrapping paper and wool, butterflies with colour paper folded like a fan and tied in the middle with thread and pipe cleaners for the stem of the flowers. And finally Project Red was ready go… (will add a picture of her taking it to school on Tuesday)

On Tuesday