I was woken this morning by Scarlett yelling up the stairs for me to come down and wipe her bottom. So that was nice 🙄 Once I was up it seemed rather pointless to go back to bed so I was up and about pretty early. The children were watching The Pink Panther video we’d bought yesterday but it has the Henry Mancini theme tune rather than the one with words which we were hoping for. Satisfied ourselves with finding some youtube clips showing the song though. I put some washing out just as it starting raining and then made lunch to take to MM and we went to collect Lucy, Rebecca and Richard.
On the way D&S asked to listen to War of the Worlds, so there was some discussion of that on the way to MM including what the red stuff the Martians covered Earth with was made of, what their eyes were made of, what a ‘living nightmare’ is, what ‘terror’ is and some examples of some things that I find terrifying, why ‘do something every day that scares you’ is a good life motto but some things are best left avoided, why I might be scared of dogs and probably loads of other things I’ve forgotten while Lucy also told me about Wife Swap.
We arrived and there were two great activities laid on at MM today – making Elmers from milk cartons and little pieces of coloured paper and material with googly eyes, and comic / storyboard making with pens and pencils and readyprinted comic strips. We arrived at about 1130 and there were already several people there. D&S both wanted to do some comic making so we went over and had a seat at that table. Davies is familar with the idea of storyboards and layouts of comics but we’d never looked at trying to fit a story into a certain amount of frames before, we normally use as many boxes as necessary. I tried to explain how you’d decide what your story was and work out how to tell it in x number of frames but it was easier to show them, so we chose what I’d done from waking up this morning to arriving at MM in nine pictures. Davies dictated what I’d done and I drew them and we decided on some ‘comic’ effects to liven it up a bit and suggest movement etc.
, Then we moved on and made some Elmers (well the children started and got bored so I did most of, cool activity 🙂 ) 
D made a dalek from Lego 
and S was utterly delighted at the arrival and Ali and Freya :).
I chatted, drank tea and enjoyed the busyness of the group and then decided to go and finish my comic strip so sat and did colouring for a while before being joined by Ali, Davies, Scarlett and Freya. The children did some pictures of their own and Tarly did some ruining, sorry, colouring in on mine 😉
D’s comic strip
Then it all got slightly ridiculous with me claiming to be SuperNic and designing a comic strip to show off this superhero alterego with all of my superfeats of the morning so far
And then we cleared up and came home. 🙂
Davies, Scarlett, Rebecca and Richard had all been desperate to come back here and play so Lucy and I, who hadn’t talked much at MM as it makes more sense to chat to other people there, decided that would be nice. Unfortunately none of them seemed to actually want to go and play in the end so after about an hour of constant interuptions and upsets we gave up trying to have a conversation and took them home. Once home D&S magically managed to play together really nicely and then I did their tea and sewed the lastest Beaver badge onto D’s uniform. My Mum arrived so she stayed with Scarlett while I walked Davies round to Beavers and then stayed chatting until it was time to walk round there again to collect him.
The children have done loads more drawing, Davies did an excellent Pink Panther and Tarly did some scribble pictures, Davies has been doing loads of copying writing off things like dvd cases and wrote STOP pretty much by himself today on his comic strip (although his letter wandered about all over the place and were not in the conventional left to right formation :lol:). They are now playing a crazy game with a Barbie jeep, a spider man toy and the milk carton Elmer waiting for Ady to get home before they go to bed.
Oh and he’s just knocked on the door! 🙂 Back later!
Gosh! You remember everything!
Comment by Lucy — 24 April 2007 @ 7:57 pm