I'm back...

and we had a fabulous time. Such beautiful towns and harbours. The houses in both Rouen and Honfleur are just amazing buildings - sooooooo pretty and very unusual.

In all the excitement of getting ready to go away I forgot to schedule my Pink Elephant work. This week our challenge is 'Back to School' - so do check it out.



For my contribution I did two laminated pencil control sheets, which would make a great little game for any 'just starting nursery' three year old. Unfortunately my photo is horrendous as the laminating has caused glare, but I think you will get the idea.

The 'little one' uses a whiteboard erasable marker and starting at the cat uses the pen to trace along the dotted line to the mouse in the first one and to the food in the second. It's good fun and really helps young children to learn to control a pencil while also training their eyes to move from left to right as we do when reading.

As the card is laminated the pen can be wiped off and used again and again. It's nice to have one for the child to keep too so these could be scanned and printed out to be used with normal crayons.

I think the cat and accessory stamps I used are by Woodware and are from a clear set with lots of little extras such as a paw print, fish, etc.