Curtis and Tilly 'underwater'.

Yay! Some creativity that little Curtis can be involved in!

I recently got sent an email featuring fabulous pics done by artist and mum Adele Enersen of her baby Mila. She create's a fantasy background scene around her little baby when she is sleeping and then photographs it. I loved the pics - so decided to do a background creation of my own...

It was so much fun! Will definately be doing more of these in the future.. Little Tilly can help with creating the scenes, though at this age she can be a bit frustrating by not following my directions properly to move in the right position for the photograph!

Fun in the kitchen!

Tilly LOVES spending time doing some cooking in the kitchen - obviously the main attraction is that she gets to eat some yummy stuff! Mainly we make cakes, cookies, etc. We have tried cooking many things with her - but at this age she loves to eat the ingredients straight away so working with raw meat etc. is a bit troublesome, and anything that takes too long can lead to some teary tantrums... so we tend to go for the 'quick-fix' fun to eat straight away stuff.

Cooking is always a big mess, plenty of spills and things going where they aren't meant to... but seeing her in her gorgeous cooking hat and apron makes it all worth it!

Here she was making chocolate cake with daddy!

Tearing paper and gluing

Lately Tilly enjoys trying to cut paper (her scissor skills are slowly developing!) and also tearing paper into strips. Really the cutting and tearing grabs her interest most - but I then encourage her to stick the pieces down to make a collage.

Above, the yellow strips are stuck onto a paper-plate to make a sun.

Below large colour pieces are stuck onto a paper background: abstract.

Tilly is using watered down PVA glue and a brush. She usually uses glue sticks, but I decided to try a different glue this day. Watery glue is messier... so as it was a hot day we decided to take her good clothes off!

Writing in outlines

Granny and Grandpa came up for a visit recently and as part of our preparations I decided to make a 'welcome' sign to place on their bed.

I wrote the word 'welcome' in black and then gave it to Tilly to 'decorate' with here coloured pens.

I was utterly amazed when she did this with the red pen:

I gave her no instructions, yet on her own she traced inside each of the letters!!!

I then took the red pen off her so that I could show others what she had done!

Here is the final result:

Playing with blocks

Blocks must be the most basic toys about... Tilly got her block set in a timber push-cart trolley for her 1st birthday. They are always around ready to be played with... usually the challenge is to simply stack them on top of each other and get them as high as possible, then enjoy knocking them over: CRASH!

Recently though, I looked at what Tilly was building and was impressed by the way she was matching her colours and making some quite architectural looking towers! - I think these structures would look quite at home in large scale in the city of Melbourne!


Here it looks like her Yellow building has a multicoloured shadow! Love it!