Today was quite a multifaith session as well, dealing with buddhism and the beginnings of islam, as well as china and japan [we haven't read those chapters in story of the world as a bit behind!] . It was an absolutely fabulolus day with truly brilliant ideas being brought along and great fun had by all.
I started as a helper outer, as we had all the ‘messy’ tables in use, and it was a bit too chilly to be going outside. M started us off with a fabulous koinobori craft. Making painted material carp kites to signify determination, vigour and overcoming obstacles – something all our children need. This took a lot of concentration to make, so were done in small groups and only got joined up at the end, and looked brilliant. I must take the girls outside in the sun and see them swim 
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Merry got set up to make oasis scenes from a sinbad story which also worked really well, both for the older and younger kids. Out of fimo, of course
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My photos are a bit dire as lost our camera, so from the phone 
. Zoe was in the sitting room leading people making buddhist prayer flags to add to a banner. I think everyone did this one, including lots of the parents. The whole thing strung in my conservatory looks so fabulous i will be sad to divide it up!
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On the table G and I had our ‘slack’ crafts that would be done without a lot of adult assistance, some curly snakes, that twirl with heat and printed islamic tiles to hopefully have enough to stick and make a wall frieze. as it was, there were so many fab things to do, that we didn’t have enough ‘filler time’ . ALso on the floor was K’s ‘slack’ craft – kai awase – making shells to pair match with.
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K was in the kitchen making a sumptuous feast. Intially with SB and Big helping chop loads of veg to make sushi and spring rolls. they were both delish I do love the food side as well as the craft side, and will def have to buy some spring roll wrappers for the future.
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After lunch, when the kids had had chance to blow off steam racing around outside, we set up myself and G in the conservatory. She was making geometric styled bags, but the kids prefered to decorate them to become history bags sounds like a good idea. I was doing more tile making, as had bought some white tiles, and had carbon paper to transfer islamic designs across. however, quite a few kids experimented making their own designs, and i thought that it worked really well. I know jax was doing a buddhist prayer bead chain, but as strapped to my table, didn’t wander about.
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Both my girls and I thoroughly enjoyed the session, meeting friends and socialising whilst being productive
These are the texts we are predominantly using this year
I should point out that unlike galore park junior 1 and 2, GP 3 and syrwtl 1 deal only in english history to run alongside SOTW.
It really was a fab craft-packed day. Probably one of my favourites so far
I might send Ernest one day. (You do run coach trips, don’t you?) I would just like to see his face at the suggestion that he would have to make things all day!
All looks lovely
Thanks for having the girls – I was sorry to miss so much of it, it looked great.
My oasis was from the going across the indian desert bit though, not Sinbad! (humphf!
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oops!!
i think if ernest came regularly, we would expect him to bring a something! it could be more mechanical or puzzle-y. i think we tend to choose things that the kids we have might well enjoy!
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