I have been giggling the whole time while making these little critters.
This all started a few days ago when DD and I were looking at the Digifree freebies list. She spotted the kit from Digital Candy called "Early Birds". Actually she spotted the googly eyed bumblebee. I asked her if she'd like to see how to make a little critter like that and she got REALLY interested. So we sat at the computer for awhile, her on my lap, and doodled the afternoon away until we had a bumblebee with googly eyes.
Today at her nap time, before she went to lay down, she said she'd like me to make a caterpillar next. Then a butterfly. Then a frog. Then a snail. Then I wanted a flower and a mushroom. Pretty soon we had a little collection of googly eyed cartoon bugs.
The red sneakers on the caterpillar were my idea.
Wanna know what the bonus of this little cartoon excursion is? She now realises that you have to READ in order to do all of this stuff on the computer like I do. She's sounding out her words and studying hard so she can read all of the drawing tools on the computer so she can make stuff too!!!! YEAH!!!!! We finally found that 'thing' that motivates her to really want to read.
She's been doing well for the most part but you could tell she wasn't really that motivated.
Until today when we made BUGS together!! LOL
Here's the preview for our bugs:
There are two copies of the caterpillar in the download. One with the shadow and one without.
16 comments:
Thank you! Your blog post will be advertised on the DigiFree Digital Scrapbooking Freebie search engine today (look for timestamp: 13 Mar [LA 11:00pm] - 14 Mar [NY 01:00am, UK 06:00am, OZ 05:00pm] ).
your bugs & caterpillars look gorgeous , congratulations on the job :-) ! Thank you !
Well done, great bugs. Thank you for sharing. hsmema
These are sooooo cute - I just love them -- Thanks for sharing
Thank you so much for this Freebie. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in Creative Busy Hands Scrapbook Freebies Search List, under the Cat(s)/Dog(s)/Bear/Bird/Butterfly/Other Animal Theme post on Mar. 14, 2009. Thanks again.
What a wonderful way to teach your daughter! It's amazing what the right motivation can accomplish.
Thanks so much for sharing your afternoon's work!
These bugs are adorable. TFS!
Thanks for the lovely bugs! So glad using the computer is giving your daughter incentive to learn to read. Maybe she just didn't see how it'd be useful to her before.
Comic books did it for my 2 boys and I know how pleased you are. Thanks for sharing the results of your precious time with your daughter.
darling!!! thanks to you and your daughter for sharing!
Thanks for sharing & Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Yea for reading enthusiasm! I have 2 rabid readers, and one reluctant reader, so I feel your pain. He's not struggling with reading, it's just so hard to find stuff he'll get interested in.
Love the bugs. That caterpillar with sneakers will be perfect for when I get around to scrapping my running pictures. thank you so much for sharing.
Oh my heck, those are the CUTEST darn bugs I have ever seen! I could handle bugs better if they looked like that! :) Thanks for the critters!
thanks! these are so cute!
Thank you so much for these cute bugs :)
I love your bugs, thank you
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