Comic Relief

What a day! An enforced day at home due to sickness (Plum) and our very busy week looks like it might be much calmer if the sickness continues.

We have finally finished the comic strips that we started three weeks ago. It is rare for us to finish a project but this one was sparked by receiving a picture in the post from a friend and this was the boys idea as their response. We have managed to keep it at the forefront of 'things to do' by inserting a new table into the dinning room just for the boys to permanently have a space to keep on going projects and in this way it has been easily accessible to dip in and out of. I'm not entirely sure where the idea of a comic strip came from. It occurred to me that in schools it would be a small unit of literacy work where the children would have a few minutes each day to complete a section- the story line, the pictures, the word, the title- they would probably read a few comics and look at it's features and maybe even freeze frame a few scenes. And here we are with relatively little exposure to comic books (I may have bought them one each during the summer) and now we have completed our own comic strips. It also interests me how different their styles of drawing are, Pumpkin mostly opting for line drawings and Bean being determined to create a suitable background. It has almost make me sad to post them but I know that they're going to a good home. 

Bean's Angry Bird Comic Strip

Pumpkin's 

Pumpkin's (cont)

Pumpkin's (cont)

Pumpkin's (cont)

We have also been busy writing cards to our friends and Plum is enjoying colouring but will only use the felt tip pens! We got daddy's robot out of the cupboard today. Pumpkin has been keen on the idea of a robot for a while in particular building a working one so whilst I look into this we are filling the space with other robot related things. Today was playing with Pino (the robot) and creating our own robot designs from given parts. What I especially like is that, despite the fact that he had a choose of heads, bodies, arms and legs, Pumpkin still managed to create outside the box and came up with his own unique robot.

And Star Wars reared itself again into our day via hama beads and lego cartoons. In between all of this, Bean asked if we could do some more reading (today he read the words 'you' and 'dark' throughout the story and we had fun replacing words in the text with silly nonsense and laughing a lot) there was also lego. 

Bean declared it a trick day and we have several lined up for daddy, Bean his in a kitchen cupboard and scared the life out of mummy, and Pumpkin continues to tell jokes at breakfast time. We are trying to increase his repertoire by introducing one new joke a day and then repeating it to death until we have all memorised it.