Kids Co-op - Rocket streamer

 
<center> <a href="http://www.tamingthegoblin.com/search/label/kids%20coop"></p> <p> <font color="#808080" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/FkLk8.jpg" title="Hosted by imgur.com" alt="" /></a></font></p> <p> <font color="#808080" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></center> Its time for Kids Coop. Please link up your child orientated posts and check out what others have been up to this week. I'm linking the following:

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(Goblin is 42 months)

Goblin has been enjoying weekly Rugby classes and he particularly likes the throwing practice. He has also been "studying" the planets at nursery. I decided to combine these two interests and make him a Rocket streamer bean bag to throw around. 

While the pattern isn't quite easy enough for Goblin (aged three and a half) to manage, I am pretty sure that most middle school kids could make one of these themselves. I just took two Rugby ball shaped pieces of cloth and sewed some decoration on for windows and a door. 

I turned the window and door sides to face inwards and laid out two wings and some fire felt and some ribbons also facing inwards. Then I sewed around the edge of the rocket until I had about a two inch hole left at the top. 

I turned the rocket inside out and stuffed a plastic sandwich bag inside it. I filled the sandwich bag with lentils and sealed it, then sewed up the hole. The sandwich bag is incase the rocket falls in a puddle - lentils don't do well if wet so this makes the toy outdoor proof. 

It got a Goblin seal of approval.
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