Reception- The Bog Baby

Date: 20th May 2025 @ 2:24pm

This week we have been reading the story The Bog Bay.  It about two little girls who discover a magical pond in Bluebell Wood.  Inside the pond they find a 'Bog Baby'- a jelly like creature with ting wings and a spikey tail.  The girls take the Bog Baby home to look after and care for it- they even make it a special home in a bucket.  However, soon the Bog Baby gets sick and the girls realise (with the help of their mum) that the need to return the Bog Baby to magical pond where it lives.

The children have then crated their own Bog Baby models using clay trying hard to include all his different features- googly eyes, a spikey tail and tiny wings.  They had to carefully mould the clay to the correct shape and use the skills; slip, score and blend to ensure they correctly attached all the different features.  When the clay had dried they painted their models and made a magical pond for it to live in using a range of different meduims and materials at the creative area.

Have a look at our wonderful models!