Cornish Mama

Who doesn't love a rock pool?! Yesterday, we made salt dough creatures and last night I painted them using acrylics so today I put them to goos use and made a rock pool invitation to play for Zach for this weeks #yesbebemission !  I used Josh's Ocamora Techniques (I bought them for his Birthday as a present from Zach so they could do them together)  buy them here!  and made a circle out on the around a bunched up blue sensory silk! I then placed the salt dough creatures and stones in the middle and placed around!  Zach loved it and was straight in there, picking up all the animals, exploring the rocks and telling me what they were! He was particularly fond of the fish and starfish as he loves looking at fish (we have a fish tank and its his favourite thing to do) and he loves shape of a star! It didn't take him long to work out there was two star fish's and 2 fish so he liked pairing them up!  Zach also enjoyed stacking the salt dough cre...

This weeks #yesbebemission is based on the sea so as well as some awesome stacks, we today have made some salt dough creatures (for an ITP for tomorrow) & some sea blue slime! Yes Bebe shared a recipe for salt dough yesterday on their IG post so I made some this morning, my son helped to mix it and my cousin (who i look after once a week during summer) made some creatures! Zach loved playing with the dough and found it really fun to roll up and pat together, to be fair he liked it more than I thought he would! We made a combination of animals and some pebbles so that tomorrow I can create a rock pool! We made a jellyfish, crab, a couple fish, an anemone, some starfish, snail and some pebbles so there was a good mix just like you'd find in good rock pool. I've been painting them this evening using some acrylics to bring them to life! We also made a slime mixture today which was a huge hit with the 9 year and Zach loved playing with it after it was made! The textu...