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We did it - we went to the National Gallery Lego exhibit, and it was COOOOOOL! Thousands of white bricks, and you get to take a turn to do some building. Time limits when they are busy, but they gave us a generous 15 minutes. You make any kind of building to add to the […]
Canny Nookers will be able to work it out … No. 2 son has been at it again.
Well, I located some great fabrics, and some googly eyes. Can you believe there are a pair of nine year olds that got a SEWING KIT for their birthday?? It’s true! Plenty of other masculine, robot, killer, spy dinosaur things too, but a real life sewing kit … now that’s something.
And it’s been used!
Here’s […]
Well, you start with some pretty fabric, cut out a lizard shape, then another one in a different fabric. Sew them together, leaving a gap. Turn it inside out, stuff it, sew up the gap, and add eyes.
Pretty easy, and it appears eight year olds can do it!
No. 2 son made this one - […]
Lego is the best toy, I’m telling you. We had the kitchen renovated last year, and had to relocate play time to the garage. We took one box of Lego, and the kids played with it every day. They were nearly late for school one day because they ‘had to’ finish making their Lego X […]
