Wood for school

A few months ago now we (Cathy, our Reception teacher and myself) discovered the wonders of The Phoenix Resource Center in Northampton. For a total of £25 including lifetime membership we were able to wonder the isles of this magnificent place and pick of the shelves whatever we could use in school. Along with various fabrics, bags of sequins and buttons, notepads and whole lot of other fabulous stuff, we found a stack of wooden discs.

We were limited to five, so natural we took five, without any real idea of what we would do with them but feeling sure that they'd come in useful somewhere along the line. And they were! They started out being used as chopping boards in our ice cream parlour, then steering wheels for various vehicles before I had the urge to get the soldering iron out and make them, well, a little prettier. So, several months of on and off work and a million coats of varnish later, they are done.

(And yes, I know the '16' is missing, fear not, there is one on the other side!)

As they dry from the very last coat of varnish (thank God!) I'm still not entirely sure where they are going to go - somewhere in our outside provision. I'll take a few pics of them in situe when the time arrives.
Happy crafting. S