By Jove I think he's got it!

Well I never did!  My cunning plan appears to have worked!  A rather excited 6 year old was totally engaged in practicing his cursive handwriting.  Who knew?!  The actual adventures have so far only got as far as going on his skateboard. That took alot of effort in cursive!

His sister is now also writing the story of her recently made fleecie toy.

The baby also got in on the creative excitement.  I probably had better stop calling him that as he'll be 2 next month.  Is there a protocol on when to stop referring to a child as a baby?

Needless to say, I am still failing to get in on the creative department whilst fending off the next request for help. But I couldn't be prouder really!  I'll get in the sewing room tomorrow. 

The Adventures of Grinubud

Earlier this year, this little fellow came to join us, stealing my sweet 6 year old son's heart.

It all started with this book from the library.  For some reason he looked through the book with me.  The book starts with lots of staged photos of the sock creatures in poses & situations.  Tintin just loved it and we had to raid his sock box for some suitable materials.  Grinubud was our first.  The name was his choice. Many more sock creatures have followed.  And other sock doll books. Sock fish are the current favourite as he can almost do this on his own.

He is entering his sock dolls, primarily this one, into his class recycling competition where they have to make something useful that has been diverted from landfill.  Along with this he is writing about the Adventures of Grinubud, on my devious suggestion to get him practicing his handwriting (as requested by his teacher). So far he has got as far as the title page & we have printed off a couple of photos for illustration.  We'll see if he sticks with it.

Grinubud loves to ride his scooter & feel the wind in his ears...