Child's Own Studio

We did not make it to Bondi to see the Festival of the Winds today and all the kites in their soaring glory. Next year. I did find something equally exciting which has made me smile endlessly today. Lots of folks may know about this site already, but I stumbled across it for the first time today.

Childs Own Studio: making custom soft toys with children. A fantastic idea, kids send in drawings and this woman turns the drawings of creatures into soft toy creations. I love it for so many reasons, harnessing the sublime creativity of kids' imaginations and turning it into reality. Can you imagine the joy of opening the mail one day and seeing the dude you drew come to life! Happiness.

I am not sure O's drawings are figurative enough to contemplate a soft toy transformation just yet. We are still in the fusion oeuvre of stickers and abstract expressionism.

First colouring comp entry! Fingers and toes crossed.

Today we are posting off O's first entry into a colouring in competition. My Mum brings the Funday Telegraph section (from the Sunday Telegraph) over every week for O and it always has a picture to colour in (which I think its always part of a comp). O coloured this weeks in with great gusto and when I took a closer look it was because it was a Wiggles picture. So we've decided to post it in and enter the comp, in the hope we might be lucky enough to score a Wiggles prize pack!

When it rains... We texture!

Got a large piece of paper out this morning and scratched my head! Let's texture I decided. Helped by the fact that O has 'Thready Bears' which he loves! We started doing rubbings of the 'Thready Bears', then realised the tiles have texure too... the hunt was on - what else could we find to texture: a plastic play knife, a steamer O plays with, and a funky floor mat!

Tip: broad surfaced crayons were the best for texturing.