This week we are doing Mr Greedy:
I had an idea to make a Mr Greedy and some bean bags which the children would throw into Mr Greedy’s mouth. I didn’t want to spend any money or much time on making this. It ended up costing me nothing and taking me less than 5 minutes to make out of scraps I had around the house. I gathered together everything I thought might come in handy:
This was a little different from a simple junk model of Mr Greedy because it needed to have a mouth into which things could be thrown and also retrieved with ease. We had some shoe boxes lying about left over from our Dante’s inferno diorama which I thought might just do the job:
I thought I could probably make a shape loosely resembling Mr Greedy’s body using stuffing from Oscar’s duvet and a black bag and tape:
I needed the hole at the top because the items we would throw in needed a place to fall into (the other half of the box). However, now Mr Greedy did not have a head! I set about rectifying this by stuffing a carrier bag with fluff and taping it onto the top of the box:
Still not looking very, very like Mr Greedy, I swiftly covered him in pink wrapping paper:
I stuck bits of the paper down, just to secure it and then painted some eyes onto the head using some nail varnish (nothing else showed up on the paper):
I had planned on making some bean bags for the children to throw into Mr Greedy to feed him. I had even toyed with the idea of making food shaped ones, but to be honest I didn’t want to invest that much time into a project that would be used for just one week. In the end I took the even lazier option by asking the children to go through our plastic food basket and pull out anything they thought Mr Greedy might be interested in eating:
This was cheap yet effective way of providing my little ones with a themed toy to play with throughout the week, whilst improving hand and eye coordination. It may not look exactly like the real Mr Greedy, but the girls were so pleased with how it turned out!
ha! Brilliant fun!!
Thanks Sandra!
haha he’s brilliant! 🙂
Thanks Debbie!
There’s nothing that can’t be accomplished with some duct tape and a little creativity!
Lol! So true! I’m not sure I’ll win any awards for it though…!
It looks like its ready to come gobble you up!
You make me giggle!!
Cute, when the kids were little I made a “Feed the Pig” game out of a milk carton. Then very quickly the paint flicked off, and the eyes and ears fell off, but the kids still loved feeding that silly thing spoonfuls of rocks or pom poms or whatever I let them, then pouring it out the back end and saying “It’s pooping Mom! It’s pooping.” That part I wasn’t so fond of.
Yes, our older children like this Mr Greedy a little more than they should, me thinks! They’ve started feeding him all our tiny Mr Men toys!
You must have a million and one ideas going around in your head! Is there a way to bottle that creativity and send it to me? I know the littles will have so much fun with Mr. Greedy. I’d like to come play, too.
Have a blessed day, Claire.
We’ll have to knock you out, smuggle you onto a plane without knowing, fly you over and then when you awake give you an asprin for the inevitable headache (from being knocked out) and then you can get stuck in to playing Mr Men with my guys! They’d love to have you!
You are funny!