Friday Post - Easter Cut-Outs

 By Elizabeth Teddler

Easter is coming fast, so I whipped this out and started assembling it all.  My daughter isn't ready to cut paper nicely, but she is ready to handle the decorations mostly gently while she plays pretend with them on the table.

It comes with carriages and weird bunny costumed cupid babies and real bunnies in human costumes and so many lambs and chicks.  The big carriage is made from the card on the back of the book.  It's pretty incredible.  My daughter was particularly amazed.

 We got this years ago at a book sale because we loved the art.  It seems to be out of print, so I probably should have scanned it all...  but I don't really want to print and cut it a second time and we're turning into such hoarders here...

 I'm being really careful to cut them out with generous borders or now.  I could always scan them later if need be.

Friday Post - Fanta Color

 This is a great little Italian peg board with coloured pegs.  It comes with some suggestions for pictures you can make, but the booklet contains pictures made on all different sized boards with different sizes and shapes of pegs...  I guess it's advertising for us to upgrade.

We only have the little portable one, which is enough for us.  The box that stores the pegs snaps onto the frame so that you can carry it around or hang it on the wall to display your picture.  This has been a great alternative to Lite Brite, which is sort of dangerous because you have to plug it in and is wasteful because it requires all that black paper.  Also, lite brite pegs are way too teeny for our household.