(of course the awesome skatey-beachbabe-katie breaks out movie quotes, and i reach for Broadway. i never claimed to be cool! ;-) )
anyhoo... around these parts it is a time of year known as Matariki (maataareekee), also known as the Maori new year, also known as the time when the Pleiades become visible in the night sky, and in part due to that we've had an abundance of stars cropping up around the place!
Par exemple- our playgroup is undergoing HUGE renovations, and in the long term plan is a beautiful stained glass windows for the tiny babes to stare up at, but in the meantime i decided to make us a biggish window star (each point is half a sheet of kite paper, so the whole thing is approx 25-30cm tall). We then decided that making these was a nice craft for the parents to be engaged in, so we've started a mass campaign of star making, in part so each child can take one home at the end of the term for the mid-winter break (cos who doesn't like a bit of colour injected into grey days?!), and also potentially to sell at our advent fair.... i must get a photo of the big basketful next week!
anyway, there is a good tutorial for these waldorf window stars over at Gardenmama, and i get my kite paper from Forest Folk, which is the little shop run by our playgroup's school :-) (they're a perfect little gift for a new baby or wee kiddo's birthday when you don't know what they've already got!!)
annndd....
after seeing a tutorial somewhere (might have been this one at Childhood Magic) i decided to have a go at making a little star lantern!
(this one was too small to fit a candle inside it, but they're still cute as holders for taller candles too)
and then taught a few of the mums at playgroup to make them, using the kids watercolour paintings, which then became little baskets to hold a biscuit for each of the kids at our matariki celebration morning!
this is a few of them *just* catching the morning sunlight up on the windowsill....
there were all sorts of delicious star-themed treats for the kids to eat- 
and lexi did a story for eli & one of the little girls (who was singing "twinkle, twinkle" as accompaniment!)
and the kids sung star songs and listened to a special story :-)
annnndd...
completely unrelatedly, i saw these on The Magic Onions a while ago, so had to try it out!
it's nice to add a little sparkle into these wintery days!!
anyhoo... around these parts it is a time of year known as Matariki (maataareekee), also known as the Maori new year, also known as the time when the Pleiades become visible in the night sky, and in part due to that we've had an abundance of stars cropping up around the place!
Par exemple- our playgroup is undergoing HUGE renovations, and in the long term plan is a beautiful stained glass windows for the tiny babes to stare up at, but in the meantime i decided to make us a biggish window star (each point is half a sheet of kite paper, so the whole thing is approx 25-30cm tall). We then decided that making these was a nice craft for the parents to be engaged in, so we've started a mass campaign of star making, in part so each child can take one home at the end of the term for the mid-winter break (cos who doesn't like a bit of colour injected into grey days?!), and also potentially to sell at our advent fair.... i must get a photo of the big basketful next week!anyway, there is a good tutorial for these waldorf window stars over at Gardenmama, and i get my kite paper from Forest Folk, which is the little shop run by our playgroup's school :-) (they're a perfect little gift for a new baby or wee kiddo's birthday when you don't know what they've already got!!)
annndd....
after seeing a tutorial somewhere (might have been this one at Childhood Magic) i decided to have a go at making a little star lantern!
(this one was too small to fit a candle inside it, but they're still cute as holders for taller candles too)and then taught a few of the mums at playgroup to make them, using the kids watercolour paintings, which then became little baskets to hold a biscuit for each of the kids at our matariki celebration morning!
this is a few of them *just* catching the morning sunlight up on the windowsill....
there were all sorts of delicious star-themed treats for the kids to eat- 
and lexi did a story for eli & one of the little girls (who was singing "twinkle, twinkle" as accompaniment!)
and the kids sung star songs and listened to a special story :-)annnndd...
completely unrelatedly, i saw these on The Magic Onions a while ago, so had to try it out!
it's nice to add a little sparkle into these wintery days!!
2 comments:
Will have to try to find my nice papers to do this to add some colour to our wet'n'grey world atm.
you crack me up, it's because movies were/are the foundation of our homeskooling literary geniusness...
love your starsyness though...
i would've probably quoted the lion king... X
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