Dinosaur World begins

We began the day with playdough activities again. After doing lots of prints from leaves, bark and sticks etc Nathan then made another little dinosaur from the dough. This time he chose to make a pachycephalosaurus. Here it is with the model. A very good likeness.


Then we wre off to tackle BIG things. Last night I drew a rather large but rather slim triceratops and Nathan collaged it for our big Dinosaur World.


Then outside we went to draw and paint a volcano, complete with eruption in progress!


From this, Nathan also learnt what colours mixed together to make brown!

We also played dinosaur lotto, sang songs, did finger ryhmes and played with felt cut outs on a felt board and Nathan made up a short story of what they were doing.

We have also started an experiment....to see what happen to an egg when it sits in a container of vinegar....observations will be made a couple of times a day.

I have some prep to do for tomorrow...anyone care to draw a stegosaurus??? I have drawn a pteranadon and pteradactyl.

Dinosaur Crazy

Nathan has finished all of his papers for Term 1 , so now we are doing our own theme .....Dinosaurs!! What little boy is not mad about them!!

We made a dimetrodon out of playdough,


made some yummy rock cakes,

(and of course licked the bowl clean!)

and created Dinosaur World in the sandpit..... complete with lake, volcano, river, trees and dinosaurs!! Boy did we have fun!!






Nathan played in here for ages afterwards. We alsotalked about what it would be like to have a dinosaur (Nathan chose a brontosaurus) for a pet and how he'd keep it clean!

I wonder what we'll be doing tomorrow....(stay tuned)......

Sad News

We were shattered to learn this morning that one of our Distance Ed teachers was killed when hit by a car in the early hours of Saturday morning. Our hearts go out to her family and fellow teachers at Longreach.

Some layouts to share

This arvo I had some spare time (we had a less work with school today) and I felt like scrappping so.....

This layout is from Kylie's sketch challenge at Scrap with V.


My cheeky No 3 son, hates having his photo taken, as you can see. I always tell him "Just let me get one good photo and I'll leave you in peace." That will eventually work.

The next layout is from Scap Boutique's Sunday Roast from a cybercrop a fortnight ago. I was unable to get it done then but loved the sound of the layout, so kept the instructions.


Thanks for dropping by and having a look.

Passion for Fashion Week 3

At Scrap Boutique's Passion for Fashion, week 3's challenge is to scrap a layout in 1920's style.

So here is my entry.


This photo was taken in 1912 and geatures my paternal grandmother as a baby with her Aunt Jessie. I am really thrilled with how this layout has turned out.

Yahoo!!!

I am absolutely stoked!!!

I have won a sketch challenge on Crafty Sketches ...how exciting is that! My prize is a $50 Pre-Paid Visa Gift Card. Thank you to Ness and your wonderful team! I have completed a couple of the sketches...they are terrific and I've thoroughly enjoyed creating my layouts.

Passion for Fashion

Passion for Fashion Week 2 at Scrap Boutique was to scrap a layout 1960's style. My layout was influenced by a photo of my grandmother taken in 1963. The capure lace is also from one of her dresses.


We went over to Emerald on Friday to get some more turf. This time we came home with 60 sq. metres!! We thought we'd get the rest of the front yard as well as the side done. In reality it's a case of the rest of the front, down the north side, across the back and part way up the south side!! Why?? We cut the lengths into smaller blocks and put them further apart. We haven't finished laying it yet...the last will go down this arvo!