Under the Sea Painting

I have a drawer full of paintings like this. Today I decided that we needed to do something with them. When I asked the children what they thought we could make with the picture, they told me it looked like water. Further discussion concluded that there are fish, jellyfish, rocks and seaweed in the water.

I found some material for rocks, glitter for seaweed  and a bottle top for a jellyfish body. We printed out some pictures to colour in and stick on. Now we have refurbished the painting and have to find somewhere to hang it up.

Egg Carton Critters - Under the Sea

Generally on a Sunday evening we will watch a documentary together while we eat pizzas. This is our one day of the week where we don't sit at the table (mostly because the pizzas are ready at different times and it is rather miserable sitting down to watch everyone else eat). Sunday night we watched a documentary on sea creatures. While we were watching, my boys started working out how they could make toy jellyfish so they could put on a puppet show for me.

I could only manage to get everyone into bed by assuring them that we could make their creatures the next afternoon.

Let me introduce you to Gail the Jellyfish and Henry the Octopus (do little children call an octopus anything else these days?)

Not bad for a quick craft session. We did have a few dramas making the 8 legs for Henry because we tried to use pipe cleaners first as an easier alternative to plaited wool but discovered that they don't glue very well with kids glue.

Now I just have to sit back and wait for the promised puppet show.