I finished making this Storysack last week and it went out on loan with a Reception child straightaway! I found a ready made Aliens Love Underpants soft toy, unused, still in it’s packaging, in Hilly Fields Summer Fayre, last June – used lots of different fabrics to make underpants bunting – made a cloth sack from oddments of fabric and appliquéd the title on the outside – found the (unused!) game on Ebay – very pleased with the Where Do My Clothes Come From? non-fiction book too!
Quite regularly I make batches of game pieces/cards to replace lost ones from the Myatt Garden School Storysacks Library – missing pieces stop play! Some years ago I scanned all the Storysack game pieces, so when they are lost I can print them out on paper, glue them to cardboard and seal with more glue – making new pieces so the games and Storysacks can continue to be used!
Occasionally I need to make replacement clothes for character dolls, this week it was a pair of new pj’s for the lazy farmer in the Farmer Duck Storysack – a few weeks ago a tiny shirt for Nelligan from the Pig in the Pond Storysack. Recently all the dinosaurs were ‘lost’ from ‘Harry & the Bucketful of Dinosaurs Storysack, so I did some scanning (from the storybook) and drawing in Photoshop to make ‘lollystick puppets’, then found some great Harry and the Dinosaurs activities online, improving the educational value of the sack too!
I finally finished the Shark in the Park storysack!
I made the game quite a while ago (and posted about that), – but I had to sew hair on the Timothy Pope doll and make him some clothes, which was a fiddley job.
The other characters were scanned from the book and made into ‘lollystick puppets’.
Luckily I had some shark print fabric in my cupboard, which is just perfect for this Storysack!
I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to do this, but the Myatt Garden Storysacks Library Website finally got a header image. I chose one of my favourite storysacks, Mr Wolf’s Pancakes… and all the blues and yellows work well with the bright yellow background colour. storysacks.spc.org
