Shadow Puppets

Hands up.  Who remembers doing shadow puppets

when they were a kid?

Let me guess - is it a rabbit?

Those were the days when we were poor but happy

and made our own amusement (not that kind of

amusement Angela dear).  

It;s quite easy once you start.

In that golden age long before

television, internet, space travel and Game of Thrones

I can actually recall the whole family sitting round

in the semi-darkness making weird and wonderful

animals appear on the wall by the light of the fire

You need a steady hand for those stripes.

It was so mind-numbingly boring that bed time

and the invention of the aforementioned diversions 

just couldn't come soon enough.

This one's for the more adventurous

However with the aid of all the latest body paints

now so readily available and just a little imagination

the tedious old shadow puppet has come of age

and made a come back in the guise of hand art.

You might need help with this one.

No need to wait for darkness to fall and the

fire to be lit just grab a fine paintbrush, a few

little pots of magic colours and away we go

limited only by what we can dream up in our

mind's eye.

Congratulations - it's twins.

But why stop there, why not the whole body.

Perhaps I'd better put a match to the fire just

to take the chill off as next week's instalment

"Body Painting for Beginners" requires

getting our kit off.  Such fun.