He is finished! And the girls really love him. He sits periodically on our seasonal shelf, but mostly he's being toted around, engaging in battles with our knight puppet (Which I just happened to find a whole set of, knight, king, princess and dragon(!), right in the girls' puppet drawer. I didn't even realize we had them.).
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Anyway, should you so desire to make a dashing dragon of your own ( and I recommend you do) I will remind you that the pattern can be found
here, for free. The front of his face should be green, but I confused myself, using red as the secondary color when the designer used it as the primary color. So, when the piece said 'red'... well, I was confused and didn't realize til he was all together and, at that point there was just no way I was going to take him apart. It gives him character!
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We kicked off a week of
Michaelmas yesterday. During circle time I told them the tale of George and the Dragon,
this version. Kaiya was a little disturbed by it at first, the dragon being killed part. I could tell as she suddenly was very tired and didn't want to hear a story anymore. So I quickly got to the part about the king being so happy his daughter was saved and George was a hero! This perked them both right up and today they asked to hear it again.
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A page that randomly fell out of a book, that I didn't even realize contained the story of George and Dragon. I didn't care for that telling of the story but I liked to add the picture to our seasonal shelf.
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The girls have been quite enthralled with the story. Zoe especially is loving drawing dragons and knights. In the picture above, from left to right; the king, the princess, George and the dragon.
Tomorrow I will fill you on what we did today and share some thoughts on Michaelmas and celebrating seasonal festivities from a non-religious perspective.