A toy pond

Last week Thrifty Craft Mama posted about making a simple dollhouse using a shoebox lid, some fabric scraps and some cardboard. As one of Sunnyboy's interests at the moment is the pond in our garden, I decided to adapt Thrifty Craft Mama's idea and make Sunnyboy a pond. We used an old puzzle box, an old piece of shiny, blue wrapping paper and some pictures of greenery torn from old magazines.



We glued the blue, shiny paper to the bottom of the box and then ripped strips of the magazine pages to go round the edges. We found a set of frogs in the charity shop recently so they were perfect for the new pond and we also got a fish and a duck from Sunnyboy's basket of wooden animals and put those in the pond too.



Another of Sunnyboy's current interests is reenacting the opening scene from Madagascar and here's Marty the Zebra ready to jump over the pond.



Thrifty Craft Mama is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in doing crafts with young children. She has lots of great ideas for simple and free/inexpensive craft projects.

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