World Book Day

World Book Day

Happy World Book Day everyone! Did you all know it was world book day? Of course you did every single Mum in the land does and is busy packing off their offspring to school with pyjamas and a bedtime story, dressed as their favourite character or like my four year old wearing a home- made hat that represents their favourite book.

Can’t you tell your teacher you like pirate books as we already have the costume? Do you have to say you like Mr Tickle? How the flip am I going to make that, orange tights and masking tape? Yikes! Do you have to wear Ben 10 pyjamas can’t you go in your Thomas the Tank Engine – No mum that’s for babies!

Making the hat was quite the half term project, I can definitely understand the mums that just make it for the kids what a faff getting him to ‘help’........my boy’s concentration is not quite what it might be at one point I was trying to get him to trace (trace my friends, not write, not hard!) ‘I can make a hat’ that was all but because he wanted to eat a cheese string at the time, his little mind wandered away

‘Just do this first, honey’ I said.

A little eye sparkle and he began tracing, ‘I .....can.....make.......a cheesestring!!!!’

‘No honey, it says ‘I can make a hat’ read it again for me’

‘I.......can......make...a cheese string!!!!!’

Screams of laughter!!!!!

‘Oh yes, very funny darling, but don’t say that to the teacher. ‘She’s already put you on the special needs register don’t want her to think you’re completely bonkers and make no sense at all at least keep it in context!

But how that kids mind works is sometimes beyond me - last week we went to an art class and made a volcano island what do the boy think was neccassary and wouldn't budge till we'd made it? - A car park!

So off we went to school this morning hat masking taped together old milk box from the baby and cardboard to make The Mad Hatters Hat with extras......oh yes my friends extras a bottle that says drink me, a cake that says eat me, a drawing of Alice, white rabbit and dormouse inside a teas pot – impressive eh?

Well it might have been had it fit on the four year olds head......Have I mentioned my boys have giant heads?!!

It fit him when we began to make it but almost Wonderland like in his physical qualities (Tweedle Dee!) the boy’s head must have grown in the week it took to make the hat! The addition of a ribbon to tie it on only served to exaggerate the problem......I was thinking of changing it to a hat about the Princess and the Pea – the hat looking pea like balancing on his bulbous (but don’t get me wrong beautiful!) head – but we didn’t if he wears it for 4 minutes of the day today I’ll eat my own hat!