Friday, January 30, 2004
Lullabyhullaballoo(by Mick Inkpen; Hodder Children's Books; ISBN: 0340626860)
This easy story brings in lots of friendly fairytale characters: dragons, knights, giants, ghosts. The pictures are lovely, the text is simple and has lots of repetition built in. Lullabyhullaballoo was a hit with all the kids from 3 to 11.
We learnt a lullabye: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
We had a pose for each character, animal and even the castle. The kids loved having a go at shouting out the next pose for everyone to take, or guessing which character is being posed.
We made a sleeping princess with closing eyelids
We made a castle with opening windows.
This easy story brings in lots of friendly fairytale characters: dragons, knights, giants, ghosts. The pictures are lovely, the text is simple and has lots of repetition built in. Lullabyhullaballoo was a hit with all the kids from 3 to 11.
We learnt a lullabye: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
We had a pose for each character, animal and even the castle. The kids loved having a go at shouting out the next pose for everyone to take, or guessing which character is being posed.
We made a sleeping princess with closing eyelids
- Kids fold over a 5cm strip at the bottom of an A4 sheet of thick paper.
- Cut off the strip along the fold.
- Position the strip at the middle of the back of the paper and draw round the end.
- Fold paper across the rectangle you've just drawn, and cut out eyes inside the rectangle. (this is so that the eye holes are not wider than the strip of paper.)
- Turn paper over and draw in nose between eye holes.
- Add mouth, chin, hair, teddy, pillow, etc.
- Stick paper (scraps of old wrapping paper) to make a patchwork quilt fit for a princess.
- Tape small strips of paper to the back to hold the eye strip in place.
- Draw eyes, eyelids and lashes through the holes of the eyes onto the eye strip.
We made a castle with opening windows.
- Each kid gets a bit of A4 white paper as the background and an A5 (that's half A4) bit of brown paper for the castle.
- Show kids how to cut out a rectangle out of the middle of one of the longer sides.
(This can be used as an additional tower and/or for a drawbridge.) - Show kids how to make several snips into the top edge of their turrets. Fold down every 2nd resulting flap (and cut off the folded flaps) to get the crenellation.
- Show kids how to make windows with shutters:
- Make a vertical fold in the castle wall.
- Make two horizontal cuts of equal length into the fold.
- Cut vertically along the fold between the two horizontal cuts. This results in a cut that is shaped like a sideways capital H.
- Flatten out your castle and open the shutters.
- Make a vertical fold in the castle wall.
- Stick castle onto background, add drawbridge.
- Draw moats, mountains, trees, bats, giants, dragons etc. outside the castle, and ghosts, knights, princesses etc. waving from the windows or battlements.
