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| It's a flower, mushroom and hedgehog mummy! |
1. Clay
Its hot again today and focus has been on my 4 year old who not only has been practicing independent gymnastics at a club but also had a stay and play session at the school he'll start in September. When my eldest got home from school we decided to do some craft. I obtained a wooden fairy door for the kids to paint from a well-known discount store some time ago and that's what we'd planned to do but magically it disappeared (only to re-appear later) just when we wanted to paint it. I delved around the shelves and found 2 wild mediums that would appeal individually to my two older boys. The first was terracotta air-dry clay. They loved this. Jamie my 6 year old created a flower, a mushroom and a hedgehog (above) while Isaac said "I made nothing" with a big smile on his face while stabbing a ball of clay with a pencil.
2. Slime
Out of Jamie and Isaac we have a slime-o-phobic child and a slime-a philic child. I discovered that Jamie is a slime-o-phobic child when we got invited to a 6 year olds hands-on science party where they had to make slime...he could not bear to touch it! His brother is the opposite and if he sees something slimy he needs to touch it...just demonstrating how completely different kids can be. Consider that while making a slimy slug for #30DaysWild was mummy's brave award winning original idea (inspired by a science pack) and while at least one of my kids would comply, it really should be shelved and NEVER printed on an idea card. Why? Because I can guarantee that although most kids would love it it would be sheer torture for a precious few to even watch their parent make a slug. Also for several other reasons I later discovered.The slime I used was in a pack that I'd bought second hand at a nearly new baby sale (you heard correctly: came home with babygrows, new pyjamas and a horrible science make a slug kit...). The slime had uncongealed itself and slipped out of the slug mould into a giant mess. It didn't look like a slug to me but a dripping monster from startrek. In five minutes I got it on my shorts, on the wooden table I hadn't properly covered, on my baby's babygrow where I was holding him away at a distance to watch. The kids shrieked in happy disgust and worked out which toys they were going to use to kill my slime-monster. It went in the bin against all my principles of sustainability and I have not got the wildness in me this evening to make the "top-up" slime suggested in the pack using PVA glue, cornflour and food colouring. Not today folks!
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