Felt and Geography

Well, the project I was planning for the kids and also my geography loving husband is SORT of a success. I saw a felt wall globe online somewhere, with little felt creatures, landmarks, etc. that you can stick to it. So Jess and I made our own version. I pictured it turning out a little better, but cutting tiny things out of felt didn't turn out to be as easy as I was hoping. Especially since a lot of our felt was the cheap stuff from Walmart.
My kangaroo is missing. :(
Oh well though. It was really fun to make, especially because Jess was all into it. I've never seen his artistic side (and a little of his perfectionist side) like I did last night.
We worked all afternoon, but took a break to eat dinner, and feed Neely her first non cereal solid meal. Avocados, and she seems to be a fan.
Then we stayed up until 2 am making little creatures. It was fun and weird, just the two of us cutting and hot gluing felt in the wee hours of the morning.
Obviously it's not exactly to scale, and everything isn't perfectly aligned. Haha.
But Paige can just about already identify more countries than I can. Geography's not exactly my thing, so it wouldn't be much of an accomplishment, but she IS 4, after all, so I'm impressed. Ha.

Cason even has fun trying to move animals around and put them in their proper place.
We have LOTS more we want to make, but we will have to work on it more later. Europe and Asia are still pretty empty. The big paper thing to the left of South America is a plane Paige drew. It's so detailed and cute, with the little windows and a pilot up front:
She also drew and cut out this little penguin and a ship, complete with a little captain, steering: