Merry Christmas Mr Crocodile!

Its homework time again! This time the challenge is to turn a yellow paper bag into a "Christmas animal hand puppet"!! I was hoping to make something simple, like a lion or a duck with a Santa hat. But somehow my two-year-old knew just how to make my life difficult: Matty said he wanted to make a Christmas crocodile!!

After confirming, and reconfirming, that was what he wanted, I went straight to work, not knowing how long the process would take. I called my hubby for help, but he said he'd rather stay at work, than make a crocodile out of a paper bag!

Being the uncontested leader of this project, I quickly did all the cutting, and assigned my little helper to do the colouring and painting. But the short attention span of toddlers meant I ended up doing most of the work. Matty gave up a third of the way through!

Despite my effort, Matty insisted that it didn't look anything like a crocodile. He actually said it looked "ugly" just before I stuck the eyes on. Talk about being taken for granted!

And how can you make a crocodile "Christmas" like? I just ran out of ideas, and ended up sticking a Christmas tree in his mouth! Never thought I'd make use of my A-level's graphic skills like this.