I love doing arts and crafts with the kids. Alfie would be quite happy spreading paint around the house, but Erin can be quite focussed and interested. We made some box monsters, and sock puppets. Erin ended up turning her socks into Barbie dresses, and Aelfie made a great multiple-eyed creature, and mine ended up becoming quite a project – a sort of forest dragon character.

And here are the box monsters that inspired the whole activity.

And Alfie’s sock puppet: