It has taken us a little while, but we are back. When school broke up at the beginning of June – yes in Italy the summer holidays are quite substantial…three months of it! – We flew off to Spain for a tennis camp that lasted two weeks. It was a great experience for my son who got to mix with children from all over the world and play tennis on clay. Let’s just say he liked it so much that after three days he asked if could stay indefinitely. Now that we are back home and I got my everyday life and work in order we have resumed our crafts and art projects. Today I would like to share my son’s own creation, the life size image of a boy in the summer. We used a very large sheet of paper, big enough to fit his height. He lied on the paper and I traced around him with a marker, then he looked in the recycle box for materials to decorate the drawing.

The eyes are made of sweet wraps, the skin is made with brown paper, for the shorts he used a piece of scrap felt and the t-shirt is actually an old t-shirt, which he had decorated with markers in a previous craft, stuck on the paper. The nose and mouth are cut outs from a cereal box and the hair is made of leather strings from a very old handbag.