Dave went off this morning to do one of the holiday cottages while we got packed up and went off to the art group. We had to take a bag load of pebbles which weighed a ton! All the kids had a great time painting pebbles, making paper mosaics and doing 'secret painting' (doing pictures with wax candles then painting over it to reveal the picture) and generally getting very messy! The painting ended up outside on the field at the back of the village hall as some of the older lads decided to do splatter painting on a huge roll of paper. It actually looked really good, the art galleries would have sold it for a fortune!! I'm not sure if the paper got the most paint or the kids but they all enjoyed themselves. (Needless to say Eilidh and Ben went straight in the bath tonight. ) 
Halfway through we ran out of pebbles so Dave took a bunch of them down to the river to pick up some more. They all wandered back along about an hour later as they had got carried away skimming stones on the river instead!!
We have this art group once a month and it's great for the kids to have access to arts and crafty things that they may not get a chance to do at home (and we all get to have a go as well!!) It's all really relaxed and everyone mucks in and helps each other and we can chat and have fun and drink coffee at the same time! Fantastic!!!
Ben had a bad night the other night and woke up crying and wouldn't settle down so he ended up in our bed until he fell asleep. Last night when I tucked him up in bed he told me to take out all his teddies as he didn't want them in his bedroom. Eventually I got out of him that he had dreamt that a teddy had fallen on the floor and when he leant over to pick it up it spoke to him (spooky!) and he didn't want to sleep in his bedroom on his own as he was scared. That was the first time he's ever really had a 'bad dream' but fortunately he was so tired he fell asleep while I rubbed his back and slept fine most of last night. Hopefully it's just a one off but it makes you wonder where his brain got the idea of talking teddies from!! I guess me saying that teddy bears wake up and dance around the bedroom at night doesn't help!!! (Please note before someone rings Social Services this was said to Eilidh when she was throwing her teddy around the room as a way for her to be nice to them in case she broke them... not meant to scare them!!!!)
Halfway through we ran out of pebbles so Dave took a bunch of them down to the river to pick up some more. They all wandered back along about an hour later as they had got carried away skimming stones on the river instead!!
We have this art group once a month and it's great for the kids to have access to arts and crafty things that they may not get a chance to do at home (and we all get to have a go as well!!) It's all really relaxed and everyone mucks in and helps each other and we can chat and have fun and drink coffee at the same time! Fantastic!!!
Ben had a bad night the other night and woke up crying and wouldn't settle down so he ended up in our bed until he fell asleep. Last night when I tucked him up in bed he told me to take out all his teddies as he didn't want them in his bedroom. Eventually I got out of him that he had dreamt that a teddy had fallen on the floor and when he leant over to pick it up it spoke to him (spooky!) and he didn't want to sleep in his bedroom on his own as he was scared. That was the first time he's ever really had a 'bad dream' but fortunately he was so tired he fell asleep while I rubbed his back and slept fine most of last night. Hopefully it's just a one off but it makes you wonder where his brain got the idea of talking teddies from!! I guess me saying that teddy bears wake up and dance around the bedroom at night doesn't help!!! (Please note before someone rings Social Services this was said to Eilidh when she was throwing her teddy around the room as a way for her to be nice to them in case she broke them... not meant to scare them!!!!)
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