First stage done, we painted the brown paper white. Both boys sniffling. Lo home from school today. With brushes washed and waiting for paint to dry, I washed bits of paint off of Lo’s locks, accidentally applied by Rohan due to his holding the very long paintbrush at the tippy end.

Okay, so I wanted us to do a Christmas angel, but Lo said he’d rather do an elf, 2 elves! Traced the boys’ body outline, Lo sorted the colour scheme and Rohan had a nap (he has fever today). Lo did very careful painting, drew the faces and in-between Deady 360 episodes, we managed to finish our first contribution.  Rohan didn’t seem too impressed with the final piece initially and admitted that it needed white dots in the background. He had just woken up.