This day I love.......: shadow

Last weekend when I took the dog for his usual walk, we acquired a guest. J started pulling on his lead to turn around, suggesting to me something was behind us. He would bark if it was a person, so intrigued I turned to see a small dog. This is nothing unusual so I continued the walk, only the dog continued to follow us.

I looked around and no one was in the park, I stood and wanted for 5 minutes but no one came. I continued to walk and the dog continued to follow. I have to walk part of our walk along a busy main road, concerned for the dogs safety I got my phone out of my pocket to ring my husband only to discover it had run out of battery. I stopped everyone who walked past asking if they were looking for their dog and one very kind couple lent me their phone to ring my husband.

He came with a lead, but by this point the dog had already crossed the road and continued to follow us the last few steps.

I wasn't sure what to do, as I did not know the history of the dog and how it would behave with the girls or with J. As my Dad knows most of the dog walkers in our village I drove across for him to see if he recognised the dog. My Dad hadn't seen him before and neither had any of the local dog walkers. Our next stop was the vets.

The vet scanned and there was a chip! I was excited at the prospect of helping him return home, unfortunately all the numbers came up blank and we were back to square one. After ringing all the local kennels and dog warden, who were all closed on a Saturday night, I took to Facebook.

One of my closest friends helped me with the search and she stumbled upon a lady who had lost a dog in the village where I live. At around 1 am we had found the dogs owner, the power of Facebook. I had left my little shadow with my parents for the evening, as I was still unsure how he would be with the girls.

The owners collected him first thing the next morning and he was very pleased to see them. I am so glad we managed to find them and return him home safe. Hopefully if my dog ever does decide to wander someone kind will find him and return him home safe to me too.

This day I love a shadow

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It has been a very wet weekend. The rain has hardly stopped since Friday and the house is so cold we have had to put the heating on. The girls did not sleep well last night, I think it was down to the cold and after a 4.45 am refusal to go back to sleep, today needed to be a relaxed day.

The wet weather did give us the perfect excuse to try out our shadow puppet kit. The girls have been experimenting with shadows and noticing them more, so with it dark outside the opportunity was perfect. I set up the theatre and a light and the girls took there seats ready for the show to start.

We had been provided a great selection of puppets to use. We could however have made our own from black card and a wooden stick, but I like these. They were well made and came with a rather handy stand, meaning you could line up in order the puppets as you needed them for the story.

I made up a story that related to the stories the girls already know, in order to get them to interact. I moved the puppets to get the shadows to be bigger and smaller and experimented with using more than one puppet at a time. The girls loved it and sat really still listening. It was a lot of fun to interact this way. After, I let the girls have a go themselves and showed them what happens to shadows as you move the object closer to the light. The girls had a good look and put on their very own show.

I tried to capture the show and them experimenting with the shadows by making them bigger and smaller, my camera kept loosing focus due to the dark room, so apologies for not the best video.

My youngest became fascinated with the light and started to wonder how shadows worked.

It was really great watching them interact with each other as well as use their imagination to make up a story.

The girls loved the puppet show and we will be doing this again on another rainy day.

Another good thing about rainy days, is that when the rain does stop [even if for a short amount of time] there are plenty of muddy puddles to explore.

This day I love Shadows and mud

Our Puppet kit was kindly sent to us from Swinton Insurance. They have collaborated with Britain's got talent winners Attraction for their fantastic new advert. The girls love watching this advert too and I think they are hugely talented.

The puppets and theatre were sent for review. All words and opinions are my own.

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