Goodnight Moon - Tot Painting

We had a hugely delightful full moon this past week, which C spotted all on his own on our drive home from Soccer Training, just after dusk. It was a gorgeous sight too, he was utterly gobsmacked at the big glowing circle in the sky!

He was most concerned that it kept on disappearing though as we headed home, but as we turned a bend or went over a hill, miraculously it would appear again and we'd all giggle at his, "There they are!" remark. He says that whenever he finds anything he is looking for regardless of whether it is one item or 10. I guess it stems from looking for his shoes and us always saying, There they are, when we found them.

After baths we went back outside to sit and look at the moon, we are very lucky to live a little out of town where the city lights don't affect our sky view too much. I love seeing things like this through the children's eyes, watching them see things that we really don't think too much about (such as the moon) for the first time. The awe and mystery of it all as they wonder what on earth is that big glowing ball that we all call the Moon!


Whilst we were looking at the moon I told C about a story I had on the shelves with the moon in it so of course he wanted to go in and read the story. At first he didn't quite pick the moon in the illustrations, I just don't think he put two and two together, after all the real moon, in all its glory is spectacular compared to a grey circle on the page of a book.

The next morning though we were still talking about the moon and he was devastated when it was 'asleep' and that he couldn't go out and look at it. So I decided to have C make his own moon picture. We had loads of fun and it was so easy, the only thing that he didn't do was the cutting.

Firstly we began with a sheet of white cardstock. I squirted a few blobs of black poster paint on it and gave C a rolling brush for him to roll the paint out for the night sky.

Whilst that was drying I poured white paint into one container and black into another and gave C a paintbrush and just let him go for it, knowing full well that he would mix the colours anyway.

After he covered most of the page and it was dry (only a few minutes in the sunshine) we cut out a circle and he glued it onto his black sky background.

I rummaged up some silver stickers for him to place around the moon. So simple and it looks fabulous too!

Home School Hop #8

YAY! It worked, we're back in business. So after a few weeks break I think we will slide into the Blog Hop nice and gently, no theme this week.

Go grab the code and have some fun hopping about! Don't forget to leave a comment on the blogs you visit letting them know that you have stopped by from the hop.

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Please ensure you have linked directly to your blog hop post and that the title includes the words 'blog hop' somewhere. All links added are checked via McLinky and those without these details are removed immediately (we do not always have time to visit the blog to check).

We are all enjoying this immensely, please play fairly as the majority of blog hoppers do! Thanks for participating, have fun!

Brisbane Model Train Show

We took the kids into the city yesterday to go see the annual Brisbane Model Train Show, little C is quite smitten with trains at the moment so I knew he would love this. Much to my surprise and delight everyone loved it!

All 3 boys from the biggest to the littliest had a blast and even us girls were quite intrigued with all of the grand models. The photo's really don't do them justice.

Of course within about 10 minutes the boys were 'bitten by the bug' and were off checking out trains to purchase for themselves, however once we realised how expensive this hobby actually is (1 train is roughly $500, no tracks nothing, just the train) we thought twice and just decided to enjoy our time admiring all of the hard work done by others.


Some of them had even thought to put in a few interactive tings for the children (mostly it was no touching) but this one used a foot pedal to stop Thomas at the station, trickier than it looked. There was a smaller table with a few trains for the kids to 'control' themselves.



It was very difficult to get good shots of the kids AND the trains, the barriers were too far away. I got a couple of cute video's but Blogger is not being kind so they aren't here. C just couldn't believe his eyes, everywhere he looked, trains and more trains!

This train is a scale model of Barron Gorge, part of the Kuranda rail line in Cairns, it was kinda neat seeing a miniature model of something we have travelled on ourselves.

By far the all time favourite area of the display was the Lego. It was also probably the largest single display. I can't remember the last time I saw B so excited, he didn't know which way to turn or where to look or where to go stand for the best viewpoint. They had everything you could imagine in Lego, trains, cars buildings, mountains, castles, fair grounds, it was a pretty spectacular display.

As you know B is a serious Lego fanatic so we have alot of what he saw on the display. He has now asked for a train (or two) which we have talked about before anyway. I'm much happier investing in Lego train sets as we can set them up on tables with all of the Lego pieces, rather than starting a whole new collection of something else. It's along wait for his birthday or Christmas though!

This was a fun morning, I'm very happy we made the effort to go.