Niamh's Year in India: Red Nose Day

My brownies have sent me out a couple of parcels with some craft stuff and ideas so I really wanted to do some before the school term finished. One of the suggestions I was given was some paper mache. After a long conversation with my mum, we came up with making some red noses for Red Nose Day because she was sending me out a Red Nose so I didn’t feel left out. She then also decided to send out some Red Noses for the class I was making them with.

I made the noses with my 3^rd standard class because I have them most often and because there are only 13 of them, I figured I could control them better around the flour and water paste than I could with the younger class of 24. I’ve done some weird things already this year but sitting on my bed whisking flour and water together while asking Sarah if it looks like a glue like consistency is now top of the list.

It took about five days to get the noses finished. They plastered the newspaper around the ends of the bottles and then painted them. It got a lot messier than I would have like and I now no longer want flour anywhere near my hands again. I think I still have some embedded there. But the noses were finally finished on Tuesday and the kids could wear them. If they could forget about the horrible smell of dried flour..

They were really amused by the noses, so were most of the kids from the other classes who kept asking what I was making. However they really don’t understand when you say you’re making noses.

Explaining Red Nose Day to the kids was fun as well. I think they now think it’s a big Scottish festival that is played on TV every year. I was wished Happy Red Nose Day hundreds of times today as well.

I handed out the noses to the kids yesterday so they would have them in time for Red Nose Day and they absolutely loved them! They were rather bemused though I have to say. But they’re faces were amazing when they opened the packets and could play with them. It’s just something that’s really different and they love it. And even the class teacher got her Red Nose and was really made up as well. After a tantrum or two when someone didn’t get the nose they wanted, I managed to organise a class photo!