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Feeling a bit torn this week – M broke the news that her long time imaginary friend, Pretend Ellie, doesn’t exist!! M’s trusted confidant has been with her for about four years, she started life as a duck! and somewhere along the line transformed into a mischievous little girl. Pretend Ellie was always there to [&hellip
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I had a lightbulb moment two nights ago – halved toilet rolls make great sails for DIY cardboard boats and rafts…. and balloon sticks make perfect masts :) I used a RedTedArt pattern for the hull
What a special day for The Gandelow Gang – it was, in a word, ‘magic’. Settling everyone in again with a beautifully illustrated story we planted little seeds of possibilities in the children’s eager minds and helped them focus on the class theme and tasks ahead. After chatting about the ‘pea green boat’ in the [&hellip
Some simple wine cork stamps I’ve made for tomorrow’s Gandelow Gang classes – wine corks donated by The Wine Buff, funky foam shapes, matchsticks, plant ties and anything else I could lay my hands on in the ‘junk drawer’ in the kitchen (we’ve all got one of them right :)
Molly gets that she can’t enter the Art Labs For Kids book giveaway but wanted to send a fish drawing anyway… how cute is that jellyfish
The launch of my Gandelow Gang Art & Craft Group at the weekend was a huge success and I really want to thank you, the MollyMoo readers, for your continued support. After reading many great reviews of Susan Schwake’s recently published Art Lab for Kids book I had to get out the credit card and [&hellip
Today, the first day of The Gandelow Gang Arts & Craft Classes, was such a BIG day for MollyMoo, and I am soooo happy with how smoothly everything went and seeing the content little smiles on the kids faces as they left the studio. The first group, the 3-5yr olds, were such sweethearts – from [&hellip
Well I am beside myself with excitement – after many months, weeks and days of scheming and planning I am finally able to announce details of the weekend arts and crafts workshops for our imaginative little-uns. The Gandelow Gang has been born :)) The studio space is being painted, my dream-team of art and craft [&hellip
With all the excitement in this house about next weekends Gandelow Races I decided to make a cardboard and papier-mache gandelow boat this weekend. It’s the first time in 65 years that these very elegant traditional wooden boats will race on the Shannon Estuary and Limerick City and DaddyMoo is on one of the crews [&hellip
This craft is so quick and fun you’ll want to make a shoal :) Prep Work – what to have ready in advance: – Cut out a fish body and a few triangle shapes from cardboard – make a couple of triangular cuts on the top and bottom of the body – squirt some acrylic [&hellip
Free Printable from MoodKids – just download the pdf here, print, follow the folding instructions and have fun – pure nostalgia :)
Coming up in two weeks, on Saturday May 19th, is a unique event for families and children – a chance for you and the kids to see traditional Limerick Gandelow boats racing on the river for the first time in 65 years. For the past six months local school children working alongside master shipwrights from [&hellip
ooooh that vintage alphabet backpack is an absolute must for Molly’s next school year Happy Products for Good People – OreoOriginals
The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up {Pablo Picasso} - We are still making our way through the giftbox of craft kits that arrived from ButtonHead Crafts two weeks ago – and I think today’s little ready made mini canvas board and frame kit has been my favourite – just [&hellip
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