This weekend we put up our Christmas tree and decorated it. Eilir wanted to decorate the room too (something I don't normally do much of because our living room is pretty colourful as it is), he also wanted to learn how to make chains of paper people - so I thought we could combine the two using newspaper (the black/white/grey would be a contrast to our shocking pink walls).

I first showed Eilir how a standard 'stick man' chain is made, folding the newspaper, drawing the design and then cutting out. Eilir then drew his own design with spiky hair that worked really well - on each he drew a different face, some with 'sticking out tongues'. Depending on how well we did the folding we'd get the occasional off one with bits missing, like one mysteriously was missing a head 'maybe he had a skiing accident...?' We then tried different Christmas themed shapes, like a snowman that Eilir drew - I did the cutting out while Eilir provided commentary 'Is it hard [cutting out the scarf], is it worth it...?' He then asked if he could do ‘corachod' (Welsh for elves), and proceeded to draw a practice elf. He commented 'Do you know what I think will be the hardest part? The curly shoes', and he was right - they were a devil to cut out (but definitely worth it)! We finished off with some weird and wonderful ones, including some fat birds (mine) and a man wearing a snowman suit (Eilir's).