A spiky little friend.

Hey there!!

School year is ending, it's hot and kids are nervous and edgy!! Sometimes it's difficult to keep them focused or to control them, so it's the right moment to try some simple and funny crafts. This way, you can revise a lot of vocabulary and help them channel all that energy that's threatening with exploding in the classroom!

As we've been talking about forest animals recently, yesterday we decided to create cute little hedgehogs (a word they found particularly difficult to remember and pronounce....but not anymore!!). It's quite easy and you don't need many things. You just need: some styrofoam balls (not too small, and it's better if they are egg-shaped, but I couldn't find them anywhere), paint and brushes, google eyes and toothpicks (sometimes you can find plastic coloured toothpicks in some Chinese shops, but as I didn't have enough of these for everybody, we mixed them with the traditional ones).

So, first of all you cut the styrofoam balls in two. Then, we paint them.

Once ready, we paint a little nose, and we stick the google eyes and the toothpicks. As I have used mainly plain toothpicks, I've painted them (just for fun, the hedgehog looks lovelier that way).

And this is it. Simple, fast and funny. We had a great time yesterday!!

Enjoy!!