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Kids Craft – Barbapapa &playing with all our crafty things

 

 

As we celebrate my brand new blog, I would also like to launch and invite you take part in Kid’s Get Crafty – a link up party/ blog hop for all craftiness with and for children! Do take part. Do be inspired! Link up at bottom of post! Hooray!

Old posts welcomed. Grab a button an add it to your post or side bar. Please do NOT post things for sale or Giveaways!

Come back weekly (Wednesdays) and link up!

Here to our Kid’s Craft:

Let’s delve straight in, this week’s story + art project involves previous craftiness – our egg carton boats and scented playdough!

Barbapapa Barbapapa, by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor.

Reading age 5-7yrs, Read together age: 2yrs – 5yrs.

I vaguely remember reading or being read the Barbapapa stories for the first time on a trip to Canada. We were taken to the local library or storytime and I was introduced to the wonderful world of the fabulous Barbapapa family. So before Red Ted was even born, these books (amomgst a number of others) already graced out bookshelves. To my pleasure Red Ted took to the books himself (even tore one up, but we were able to tape it all back up again).

Barbapapa is a funny being that can change his shape to anything he likes. In the very first book, Barbapapa is born (like a flower). He is too big to stay with the family he was born into and is sent to the Zoo. The Zoo keeper doesn’t like him, as he is able get out the cages by changing his shape and goes off to play with the animals. Barbapapa is sad and wanders off… his shape changing abilities then save the day on more than one occassion and the people around him begin to love in. Happy End.

The craft project(s)

egg carton boat

(See my Guest Post on  egg carton boat for details on how we made our boats!) We made our craft project very simple – we made some playdough (click here to see How Make Scented Playdough) and then had some playdough fun! (For a truly awesome Barbapapa project visit Zoe and here girl’s at Playing By the Book here).

Loved this “craft” session, as it gave us a chance to play with other crafty things we had previously made too – like our Egg Carton Boats.So.

We played with this over several days. We had fun making little men. We mixed colours. And we got out our sailboats and went sailing (here is the original sailboat post). We lined them up. We made big ones and little ones. We had fun.

Now when Red Ted sees playdough he shouts Barbapapa! (or at least a toddler version of this!)

And our playdough has lasted weeks and we keep coming back to it!!!! Hurray!

For more Kid’s Craft, click here.

If you have been crafty with your kid’s be it at home, in the kitchen or outdoors, I would love for you to link up (apologies for some of my crafts appearing, Linky got confused when I was submitting elsewhere and will not let me delete it):

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    • Thanks Susie, will be checking out that song with Red Ted!! (and thanks for coming back and reposting comment – much appreciated!!! ;-))

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    • Wonderful. Love your submissions – the black & white one will be something for us to get stuck into soon too! See you again at Kids Get Crafty 😉

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  6. I love how creatively you used the playdoh! I must admit that I kind of cringe at playdoh now that my son is allergic to wheat. Who’d have thought you could be allergic to playdoh? But there are fun allergy safe options like crayola model magic, and I promised him at the art museum today that we could try making our own “sculptures” at home. We might have to give it a try tomorrow. Wish me luck making a horse, which I’m sure is what he’ll request! 😉

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    • Oh no! How frustrating! A wheat allergy! Never thought that that means he cannot make things like playdough, or homemade paper mache glue 🙁 well.. store bought it is. It is fine really, no! Good luck with the horse! LInk it up next week?

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  7. Thank you for letting me know about your link party. Once the crummy weather begins we’ll need lots of projects to keep my four year old and myself busy. Bring on the inspiration!

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  9. Thanks for inviting me to the party, I made it at last!
    I like the idea of using crafty things you made before to play with the new. The egg carton boat is fab, perfect for those colourful Barbapapas:)

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    • We are now “one boat” down. One left… but they have lasted since the beginning of summer, so I am very impressed…. Love your lollipop stick/ shell frames. Super cute! Thanks for joining in

      See you next week!

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    • Ah that is a shame, as they are lovely books. I thought that they originated from the US? mmmh maybe not! I regularly see lovely books from the US, that I cant’t easily get here.. very frustrating!

      Thaks for stopping by (and do link up ;-))

      Maggy

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    • Oh fabulous! Thank you so much for joining in!! Fabulous to have you on board! Do come back again next week!

      Maggy

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  20. I remember reading about Barbapapa project on Zoe’s blog and admiring what they did. I love your eggcarton boats too – it’s easy and opens up so many play opportunities. Thanks for joining WMCIR, and I will try to link up to Kids Get Crafty when my daughter does get crafty 🙂

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