Lola is an Angel (original!) in the school play and so we decided to elaborate upon a costume that she actually started whilst at nursery. It began life as a piece of card, hung round her neck with a piece of string, embellished with shiny paper, doileys, muller pots lids etc. We have changed and added to it over the years, and now the card has a Barbie head stuck to it and is sewn onto a large t-shirt with bits of net curtain added! Lola is a mixture of embarrassed and proud at the thought of wearing it for the play on Thursday, but has been quite happy to work on it a bit more this year. We added more glitter and snowflake gems. Lola stated' "Now her hair looks straggely (after smothering Barbie in glitter paint). We need to style it to make it more elegant". So she added some gold cord around her pigtails. I tried to restrain her from using purple glitter and pipe cleaners, suggesting it would look better staying within a limited colour scheme. The finishing touch was a halo for the Barbie’s head.

Lola wanted to enter a book review competition at school so she decided to make a 3D model of the main character 'Cosmo' and write the review in a spell book at his feet. We discussed the best way to do this and decided to scrunch up tin foil to make the main shape. Lola did pretty much all of the modelling and I was just on hand for technical advice! The finished structure was covered in tissue then painted with acrylic. It took about 3 separate sessions to complete. Lola was very happy with the finished results, saying it turned out how she imagined it to be and liked doing the activity together.