Amazing Mazes Download

Kids  bored over the school holidays?  Try these:

Magic Elasmosaurus Maze
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Helicoprion Maze
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Primitive Shark Maze
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Silly Snail Maze
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DAS clay

 

My elasmosaurus

  

Various creations

  

Troy Dale (7)

  

 Savannah Dale (18)

  Georgie MacDonald (7)

 

 

Even little kids can paint a shape from a mold (this is from a dragonfly cookie mould that Luke (5) pushed the clay into himself, and later painted by himself).

 

Phoebe Gibbins (5)

Terracotta coloured air drying clay.  We really enjoyed working with it - had a really good session.

It tends to dry out quickly when working with it – so have a bowl of water handy. (And toothpicks - and beads for eyes.) Very fragile until totally dry. Other than that, a very low-fuss clay for working with kids (and working with yourself.)

Paint with a high quality white primer first if you want your colours on the surface to be bright (I always steal a teaspoon of my husband’s expensive house renovation stuff.)

I also like how warm the terracotta clay looks, unpainted.  It reminds me of Etruscan art - they often used brown clay - full of warmth and life - compared to other cultures.  Even their art for burial focusses on life, not death. 

Pumpkin whorl

 

  Pumpkin whorl,

 

...with room to unfurl.

 

 Marigolds glow,

 

helping seedlings to grow.

 

 

 A playhouse is built

where the weta goes.

Plum juice for jam, and drinks, and doors.

Neighbourhood kids gather together,

life is better when we care for each other.

Magic elasmosaurus (learned from the library),

beautiful Troy.

A life lived closer to the land is a life full of joy.