Making stuff

The girls made a lot of stuff last week. First JJ was inspired to make a supper of "an egg in a nest on a tree", so I set them to work making shortcrust pastry for the nests:

The pastry cases par-baked in muffin pans turned out delicious, but far too crumbly to survive rough handling, so we went back to JJ's original idea of making nests out of spaghetti:


The tomato fruits were my idea, the chive grass and parsley leaves were hers. The carrots are our default food-sculpture tool.

Then on Thursday she finished her bag at craft class:

And Sekkie made a tortoise:

This one is cute, its head emerges and retracts on a kebab stick which doubles as the tail. Sekkie loves it and has shown it to every visitor. Her nursery school is great for this sort of thing, she is now busy with a pompom and I am getting near-daily progress updates.