Back in April we were part of a campaign to celebrate the 10th anniversary of one of our favourite books, Oliver Jeffers’ How To Catch A Star This is a very special Matilda Mae book for us and I read … Continue reading
Our final activity inspired by Oliver Jeffers’ How To Catch A Star turned into two incredibly messy but fabulously funny activities. I thought that they would be process arts without much of an end product But actually the finished stars … Continue reading
For our ninth activity filled with stars we added sea stars to our sand play. Children have always been intrigued by sand play. They dig in sand, sift it, build with it, pour it, enjoy the feel and smell of … Continue reading
Today was Mothers’ Day A day when children spoil their mummies Not all of my children are here One is growing nicely in my tummy The other gone too soon To her playground in the sky I wanted today to … Continue reading
Our first day playing with our water table, nearly three years ago, we knew it was going to bring years of fun. We were not wrong. As soon as the sun poked its head round the corner of the curtains … Continue reading
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Today we have been printing stars as part of our series of activities linked to Oliver Jeffers’ book How To Catch A Star.
This year is the 10th anniversary of this touching tale of a boy who loves stars and tries to catch one of his very own.
We love stars in our house.
Esther’s name means star and Baby Tilda, Matilda Mae, is our star of the sea.
Today’s activity was really quick and simple to set up but was incredibly effective. We have made some wonderful abstract art for our walls that we are all really pleased with.
So what did we do?
I chose four colours of paint.
Purple, Gold, Blue and Red.
I mixed each paint with a generous sprinkling of glitter.
This gave each printed star a certain magical sparkle.
We then used a mix of metal and plastic cookie cutters as printers.
We dipped them in the paint and stamped them on the page.
We had great fun trying out different ways of using the stars.
We overlapped stars, lined them up horizontally and vertically, we tried to make trees of stars and shooting stars.
We printed and stamped and painted and splashed.
It was great fun.
And here are some of our celestial results.
We were sent one copy of this 10th Anniversary Edition of How To Catch a Star to review
Today I want to share with you our third activity inspired by Oliver Jeffers’ book, How To Catch A Star To mark the 10th anniversary of this magical children’s story about a boy who loves stars we are doing ten … Continue reading
Today we continued our activities marking the tenth anniversary of Oliver Jeffers’ How To Catch A Star Inspired by Meet The Dubiens we made sand paper starfish. First I printed off a starfish template from the Internet as none of … Continue reading
When Esther and William were born They were so premature That they spent their first 59 days of life In hospital For the longest time All I could really do for my babies Was talk to them, sing to them … Continue reading