Storytime

We recently had the school holiday program at work- not that the holidays are in any way over, just the week we have programs is done and dusted. Sigh of relief. My Thursday theme was Jungles----I dressed up (naturally) as Vicki, Jungle explorer. Imagine if you will leopard print, a snake skin belt and a gardening hat with more animal print dangling from the brim. I also had my bag full of animals and a net (amazing what a desperate woman, a paper tube, a circular cross-stitch hoop and some bird netting will produce). The net was because I was hunting for George, my missing monkey. The kids, of course, got right into it. I went around sneaking up on various children, thinking they were poor missing George, netting them only to find they weren't a monkey at all. Amongst this fun and games, I created some silhouettes to see how easily the children could tell the jungle animals apart.  We started with a person... easy to identify.  Then we moved onto a lion, then an el...