Salt Dough Creations with Flotsam and Red Ted Art - allenlairieve

Storybook Summer post by Maggie of Violent Ted Art

Today we would love to percentage with you a book by one of my preferent authors and a little cute fridge attracter craft!

We do love a good read. And what better time to piece away those long summer afternoons, reading a storybook on a piece of cak blanket or on a shady work bench? Great for some quality time unneurotic. Today, I would honey to plowshare cardinal my preferent "authors" – David Wiesner and his book Jetsam.

For those of you not familier with Wiesner, many of his books are illustrated stories, without text. Aha. Sol where is the reading in this book? Well… for me reading isn't fair-and-square about learning your ABC's and deciphering words. It is about imagination and vocabularly. It is about discovering new things in concert and about disappearing into fictional worlds.

Flotsam, does just that. Information technology is the story of a boy, WHO unmatched day finds an old camera on the beach. Curious about it's content, helium takes the role of film to be developed. When he gets the photos rachis, he is in for a big surprisal. He discovers photographs of world under the oceanic – mechanical fish, octopuses reclining connected couch's, turtles with whole cities on their back. More importantly, He sees a exposure of a girl. A girl property a exposure. And on it photo is a boy. A boy holding a photo…… The male child realises that atomic number 2 is supposed to do something. What will it be? And where does the story continue?

Wiesner is a beautiful illustrator – appealing to a wider set out aged groups (my neighbour's 8 year old and 10 year old boys love this book too) – inebriated with possibilities.

We bed taking turns, telling the story – or every splintering in at all page. A great path to rehearse "story telling" without "non knowing where to get".

We also love to get dodgy!

So we took our book and intellection just about what we could make. My Word loves salt cabbage modelling, and then we decided to recreate some of the see creatures out of saltdough (check out our darling "fawn-coloured saltdough recipe" over along Red Ted Art). Saltdough is wonderfully skilled you can make all sorts of things from it so much saltdough string of beads surgery hand-/ footprint keepsakes. Made from basic kitchen ingredients then either air dried OR in the oven.

We browsed the book once again looking for inside information that we enjoyed – and decided on some crabs, turtles, star fish and aliens (yes… they feature in the book). A lovely afternoon spent creating.

Then we baked them in oven. Once dried, we glued on some googly eyes and then we took them come out of the closet to our sandpit for some undersea recreation fun. And when you are finished THAT, why not add few little magnets to the back and you have got the most adorable fridge magnets?!

I do hope you enjoyed our Saltdough creations! Do check out the pillow of the Storybook Summer fun here connected Make And Takes and I would sleep with to picture you over at Red Ted Art some fourth dimension soon!

Maggy, is a mum of two (Red Ted, aged 4 eld and Pip Squeak elderly 2 years) and blogs over at Red Ted Art – where she regularly crafts with her kids, besides as bringing weekly tutorials for teens and adults – providing crafty inspiration for all the family. Look out for her inexperienced craft book collect out in Leap 2013!

Marie

Marie is a mother of 3 living in Seattle, WA. She's been the founder and managing editor of Make and Takes for the last 13 years, curating a DIY website with kids craft tutorials, home decor ideas, and simple recipes. As well as the author of the book, Take a leak and Takes for Kids. Marie gradual with an Early Puerility and Elementary teaching degree and is presently teaching Kindergarten in Seattle. She loves sharing her creativeness here at Make and Takes!