Continuing on from previous post(s) 🙂
Group was pretty good today, always helped by having two fellow bloggers (Jen and Ros) my own sister in law and the friend who’s son attends Tumble Tots with Davies there. All slightly incestuous but nice just the same!
The theme was Autumn so Jen had brought a selection of autumnal leaves and other tree droppings, some paper and some tissue paper although we never actually got to that, Ros brought some paints, Julie brought a circle of cardboard to be decorated with harvest grains and cut out pictures of fruits and vegetables, Vickie brought gingerbread apple shaped biscuits to decorate with writing icing and I brought the (dun dun derrrr!) killer salt dough.
The dough had not actually hardened at all so we mostly just dipped our hands in it, attempted to make it into shapes which s l o w l y melted back into puddles again and washed our hands a lot. The dough did managed to block the sink in the bathroom, make it’s way into the hall, into the carpet, onto the stage, onto the bottom of every child’s shoes and is probably now mutating and regrouping in the home of every person at group today. I ended it’s time with us by ceremoniously dumping it in the bin at group, where no doubt it is planning it’s next victim as I type.
Actually given all the activities were somewhere on the messy scale group did have the feel of a therapy session for OCD sufferers today with a sort of relay of people constantly going back and forth to the bathroom smelling of liquid soap and with splashes on their shoes and bit of paper towel stuck to their hands.
My two both produced a couple of paintings each, at least four decorated biscuits, a nice harvest grain picture and did some salt dough beating which gave them licence to spend about half the time up on the stage playing with the other hoard of children present. A nice feeling to see them all running around in packs playing highly imaginative games and enjoying being together. 🙂
Left there for Gym Bobs and Davies went in to do that while Tarly and I played with a make a scene kit (the ones with reusable plastic stickers that you can position in different places on the card background). I’d found them long since forgotten in the bookcase and we had a house scene (with kitche, bathroom, bedroom and lounge) and a farm one. We did that for a while and then she carried on playing with it afterwards. I love listening to children when their own self entertainment and imagination kicks in. I do wonder why we’ve spent so much money on large plastic toys when I watch them use something very simple (and often as simple as a couple of twigs from the garden!) and give them personalities, characters and play out scenes.
Home for tea and I now have to catch up on last week’s Lost which Julie’s lent me on video before tonights episode airs. Ady has decreed mid-week alcohol ban lifting, so quite why I am still here blogging when I have such attractive options waiting for me, I do not know!
Yak to the dough LOL Everything else sounded like it went OK though. A few more people have appeared out of the woodwork and M is wanting to start up my group again but I’m just contemplating it at the moment as I won’t take any crap like before – like it, lump it or do it yourself is what I say. xx
Comment by Karen b — 05 October 2005 @ 9:37 pm
Hello! I can see your blog again, I can see your blog again! And that’s my super-intelligent insightful comment (too excited to think and have a lot of catching up to do)
Comment by Ali — 06 October 2005 @ 12:10 am
good for you Karen, it was a shame your group stopped as you had loads going on so maybe with a new ‘tough’ attitude and some new attendees you can start again and it will go well 🙂
Ali – erm Hurrah! and thanks for the insightful comment 😉
Comment by Nic — 06 October 2005 @ 8:48 am
So is the midweek alcohol fatwa lifted permanently? Woohoo!
Comment by Jenny — 06 October 2005 @ 6:51 pm