Pumpkin Making

Lots of paper mache strips of paper on a balloon
let to dry then cut into shape
and painted...............

We created these beautiful lanterns together.............



~ Jack O Lantern ~




some careful cutting with a blunt knife.......
determination of a boy..............



Yummy pumpkin soup with farmers bread......
and now dinners with their special jack o lantern
until it gets old and then we put it back in the garden
we gathered the seeds and are drying them out
until next year and we will plant them.......................
so the cycle is whole............




Needle felted Pumpkins



take some magic wool and form a pumpkin shape
then needlefelt together.............................

take some orange wool
tease outward then wrap pumpkin shape
and needlefelt ends, then all over...................
add green top and....................



Autumn Pumpkins for the seasons altar
(they are really sweet).........................





Cardboard Pumpkins & Jack o lanterns






Tracing round and round......................

We glued kite paper behind features
and also glued orange cellophane on top
which created a beautiful effect......................
we painted jack o lanterns first with watercolour paint.

~ Leaves Making ~

Leaves Autumn Lantern


We cut out lantern shapes from cardboard
then traced around leaf designs
and carefully cut them out...........................



Next we glued kite paper behind our cut outs,
and joined with staples into lantern shapes,
and threaded wool for hangers........................




Window Leaves


Traced out circles around a dinner plate
cut out contact and placed leaves upon them
then another piece on top and.......................







Autumn Candles


Beeswax cut and modeled into leaves
softened by placing into hot water............



Autumn candles creations..............................



Pressed Leaves


Leaves gathered from nature


Then carefully placed in our press...............
awaiting to be used later...................



~ Leaves Hanging ~


Circle round and round
weaved in and over
made from willow tree......................



wool so soft and beautiful
tied round and through............................



Autumn Fairy
came to be in our leaf hanging..................

Leaves gathered
glued onto wool for our autumn hanging

Owl Making

Owl Material puppets

Piece of calico
How are we going to make owl puppets??????


Trace around our hands and cut out


Draw details and cut pieces out of felt


Paint with watered down poster paints
and when dry machine sides and........................................


Owl puppets ready to be played with................


Whooooo....whooooooo...whooooo

(thank goodness owl week is turning now )
as I do not know how many more whooooo whoooos
I can stand to hear anymore..........



Paper bag Owls


Plain paper bags here we go mmmmmmmm......



We stuff them with scrunched newspaper
fold over the top of the bag
add bits of cardboard we cut out into designs
and..............................................





Owls a hoooting everywhere.......................




Pinecone Owls

Ok pinecones don`t look much like an owl
lets see what we can create..........................



Funky and whacky owls singing in the tree????



Toooowhooooo......Toooowhooooo watch out for me at night time........

( The kids absolutely love them............. )





Origami Owls

We take some paper and fold and fold........................


Here are the new little owls making homes in the squirrel`s tree



Paper Craft Owls


We take paper and cardboard start drawing, cutting
and using our imagination.........................



>>>>>>>>>>>>A Wise Old Owl emerges<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

(we were all very excited creating him as he came into being)

~Easter Making~

Easter Baking









The children had so much fun making these cakes and biscuits
and were very excited when they filled their rabbit gift baskets
with these yummies .............................................





Easter Caterpillar

He is going in our special cave on the easter altar
wrapped in a piece of cloth
for a surprise on easter sunday......
(transformation into a butterfly)


Gift easter bunnies



We took some lengths of wool


Carefully tied knots



..........little bunnies created .....................
............which immediately..................
had to be played with......... jumping, jumping jumping



Painted eggs for Easter Tree

Ready for painting

Patterns painted and then glitter paint painted all over








Wet felted surprise Easter Eggs

We chose beautiful colours from our wool
rolled them round the plastic eggs using our hands


Held them closed in our hands and dunked them
in hot soapy water (the fun part)...............
softly squeezed the water out and rolled them in our hands
then put them into stockings and rolled more....and more......
removed from stockings
then rolled them between bubble wrap(fun again look at this pop)
rinsed them in cold water and put them to spin in washing machine
and then put them out in the ~~sunlight~~



................. our special little easter eggs........



Easter Bunny Gift Baskets



We folded coloured cardboard into baskets


We made a Easter bunny pattern
and traced around on cardboard and added cotton balls for tails



............. beautiful baskets..............
that came from our creativity as we made them........
Ready for easter egg hunt, and to give to loved ones..........








Painted Eggs and Easter Egg Trees


Patterns drawn with beeswax crayons


Painted with watercolour paints
Glitter and sequins added for decoration.....



..................Magical Easter Eggs....................



...........................Gift Easter Tree for Papa................................




Easter Egg Garden Gift of New Life

We glued newspaper strips on a balloon half way up
4 layers thick and dried over night
then cut raw edges
and painted with poster paints

Then we sieved some dirt
and filled our egg garden

Carefully the children planted wheat seeds



............ Easter egg garden..........New Life is coming..............



Easter Lillies

How do we make easter lillies from hands?????


Careful cutting out of hand prints
then we roll them round and tape
curl down fingers over pencils
add some pipe cleaners and ...................................


Easter Lillies for Nanna................................



Special Surprise Eggs

We cut up newspaper and applied strips with glue
to balloons in shapes of eggs


Blowing up balloon with these great balloon pumps

Excitement building as eggs are taking shape
drying outside overnight

We glued on a final layer with tissue paper
coated with pva kids glue
when dry we painted dabs of gold paint all over

.................beautiful eggs we created..............
the children were so excited!!!!!

these are going to be our easter gifts to family



Now we have to fill them with treasures.............




Special Eggs filled with treasures we made and gathered