Kiddies on holiday

We have a week off from school, so Nana is trying to be a good teacher/entertainment centre for these next couple of days.   Due to the age difference between Faye and Ewan, projects that they like to do are not always the same.  For instance, I can't do jewellery making projects or other girlie things all the time, because Ewan gets a bit bored (and rightly so). So we tend to stick to arty type things because they can both do it together. 

Ewan copies Faye most of the time but he does get the basic principles behind each project and enjoys it, he concentrates and tries his best to make a good job of whatever it is we are making.  They are both fun kids to do projects with.  Of course, Ewan's creative mind is always coming up with even more outlandish things that his Nana has to conjure up out of the blue sky.  I really need to get me one of those 3D printers for Christmas, that would be used every day in our household.  

Yesterday, we did mainly girlie things, making pumpkin Halloween earrings and then later on, I made a little crochet bag out of string and some left over wool for Faye. 

Today, Faye read a bit of The Three Musketeers to Ewan and he spent the first half of the morning, running around in his D'Artagnan outfit that he put together himself ...

I'm this Musketeer, Nana

Later on, we got dressed and walked down the road to the Leisure Centre to book for Thursday's activities that they have planned there - making Halloween treats to eat and bring home.   There only seem to be two other children who are booked for this, so it might end up being cancelled, we'll have to see.
After the walk to the Leisure Centre (with Laila in tow), we negotiated the precarious bit of un-pathed road past Faye's school into the fields and onto the public path.  

There are poppies growing alongside the hedgerows and the borders of the fields and it would have been fun to try and get into one of the woods, because there are a few in this area- but we didn't have our Wellies on and it started to spit a bit, so we had to hot foot it back home. 

This afternoon, we did some arty stuff - making wax resist paintings - a la Starry Night by Vincent VG (we're nothing if not ambitious):

Ewan's paintings are on the left.   I was quite pleased with Faye's nice attempts - Nana stuffed up a bit with making the paint a bit thick - next time we'll use better quality paper and I'll make the paint the right consistency. 

Faye is busy designing a new logo for her school.  I had to draw the central flower and get the line drawing of the Church off my old pal, Google, which she copied and puti n the banner.   The drawings of the children on the left and all the other embellishments are all her work. 

Concentrating on getting his creation just like the picture on the box

Of course, I've also had to design and make a Pirate Spy Glass today as well - thinking of getting him one for a Christmas present, cos this is the third time he's asked me to make one.   Again, Uncle Goog gave me a cool 'pattern', using readily available materials that we had in the house.

You might also see letters and words dotted about the walls in some of the photos - this is because I printed these out and put them up all over the place, using prestik.  These are all the letters and words that Ewan has learnt so far - s, a, t, p, i, n, m, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r and the words the, and and to