Making it up

It’s been a busy morning, with Small playing happily on cbeebies with Mr Tumble, having previously done some fabric land game he found. He came charging in with instructions that he’d printed out about paper weaving, so I got him the bits he needed and he did a tiny bit of that, before declaring he was done and clearing off again. So that’s art, craft, and IT marked off for him, with added focus on communication as he comes to ask for help with various things

Big meanwhile is thrilled with the doll I finished off for her last night. She’s looked at Arthur in a Pickle (Step Into Reading Sticker Books (Paperback)), a book that I aquired along with all the others I was meant to be selling on. This copy has already had its stickers removed, so I’ve given it to her

And since then, she’s been working her way through a bag of bits of material from the scrapstore, testing what kind of material her sewing machine can cope with. We did have a slight meltdown when she wanted to sew a hat for her doll, but had no idea what shape or how to do it, and being a sewing incompetent, I couldn’t really help her. I couldn’t get across how she needed to plan it, and we ended up ditching it for the time being. So she’s sewn so much that she ran out of cotton on the first reel, and quite calmly set to and rethreaded the machine. That impressed me - she’s got the hang of threading the needle extremely well, but I was surprised that she could set the machine up from scratch without a second thought!

She’s also been helping Small with the computer - he occasionally strands himself on bits of cbeebies that he’s fed up with ;), and wonder of wonders, we’ve actually had the television off for most of the morning!

And now we’re having lunch