A Boy, His Mum And The Viking Conquest

Doing something creative with your child is a great way to help you child develop. For starters the parent child relationship grows. In addition to this your child will learn new skills and develop existing ones. It is also a great way of doing something fun together. I have mentioned before that Rachel, Tom and myself have done projects for school before. These have been making dress up costumes for book days or costumes related to class topics. We have also made models and pictures as required for homework.

Most recently the class topic has been Vikings. Tom has therefore had plenty of homework in relation to this subject. Rachel, our chief stylist and costume designer, did a cracking job of getting Tom to look like a Viking for the dress up at school. Rachel does great job and keeps spending to a minimum by borrowing or recycling items for the required subject. This occasion was no exception. Tom looked great and fell into character straight away. 

Well done Rachel and Tom!!!

A Boy, His Dad And The Viking Long Boat

School projects are great but can be hard work. Recently Tom has been inundated with homework. He has had reading, spelling, memorize a poem to recite to the class and his Viking topic work all to do over a short period. Sometimes it does feel like too much for a child of eight. However, Tom has been a trouper and with the help of his parents he has managed to complete it all with excellent results.

The recent Viking topic has been fun and we have the opportunity to do something creative that is a bit different. Tom was given a choice of subjects to choose from and had to complete several over a period of a few weeks. They varied in how difficult they were but luckily for us Tom is up for a challenge therefore does not always take the easy option.

On this occasion he chose to make a Viking long boat model. We all picked our brains on how we could make a model that stood out from the crowd. Eureka!!! I gave Tom an idea that we could engrave a piece of perspex, mount it on wood and illuminate it. He loved the idea. Between Tom and myself we created a totally different take on a model long boat. I did most the prep work, ie. drilling, cutting and set up the picture for tracing. Tom expertly traced his picture of a Viking boat with a Dremel etching tool onto a thick piece of pvc. He then painted the wooden mount and assembled the pieces together, with a little help from me. The final product was great. It gave us some great bonding time.

Well done Tom keep up the hard work and thanks for making this a fun project!!!