Ingrid and I made paper cube animals some while ago. I made a tiger, because tigers are orange (well sort of at least), look cool, and are easy to draw in a recognizable way.

Then Adrian wanted a dinosaur. It had to be a T-rex of course, and a red one, just like for his bed curtain. I couldn’t think of a way to make a cube look like a dinosaur so I had to deviate from the plan a bit.

Today I went to a parents’ meeting for Ingrid’s class, where – among other things – we got a chance to see the materials the kids are working with. The theme they are currently working with in various subjects is “Prehistoric time”. (This spring term it was “Space”.) For each major project like this, they make their own books where they paste in all sorts of drawings, worksheets etc. I had to laugh when I saw what Ingrid had drawn on the front cover of her book: