K drew around her hands and made faces out of them.
K wrote out some of the words to Polly Put The Kettle On and drew pictures while I washed up.
K made a kite while I made apple muffins.
I improved the string arrangement on the kite then made choc chip muffins.
K made paper bag puppets for the cast from Hairy Maclary while I made zucchini slice and H ate too many muffins and played with modelling clay.
K put on a puppet show.
lunch for munchkins.
K made more puppets for the Rumpus at the Vet story, and I had a shower.
K performed the complete works of Lynley Dodd while I tried not to fall asleep (damn 3pm crash).
Read the Puppets Around the World book.
After that I told them I needed a rest, so after I went and lay down and they jumped on me for a while, they went off and watched various DVDs.
Suggested to K that she could make stick puppets, and she loved the idea. So cut her out some people shapes and she spent about an hour decorating them. H decorated one with random butterflies and sparkles, but K has been making clothes and faces and hair. She was taken with the idea that this is the same kind of thing which Laura and Mary talk about as playing with paper dolls.
In fact she was so taken by the paper dolls idea that I looked up African paper dolls and found some on eBay, so decided to buy them, plus a sticker map of Africa from the same seller.
K started doing her puppet show for Mr Bat when he came home, but then she had to stop for dinner.
H built hugely ambitious towers from Duplo.
K and H had a bath, then watched YouTube videos with Mr Bat before attempting to Skype their grandmother.
More pootling, YouTube and Duplo, then I read On The Banks of Plum Creek to K while Mr Bat put H to bed, followed by K.
Now I will be up til midnight making a cake for tomorrow since I only just worked out that I won’t have time to do anything tomorrow morning…