MOASIC PICTURE TO MAKE

Needed

• Selection of pre-printed Teddy Bear pictures on A4 paper that has the 2011 A.P.I.S. theme and contact details.
•  Placed in plastic sheets in folder
• Colouring in things – Textas, pens, crayons, pencils.

Methods

• Selection of Teddy bear pictures for colouring to be in folder.
• Selection of colouring things to be on the table.
• As required pictures handed out to be coloured in.

End result

• To be blue tacked onto the wall boards
• To be taken home.

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What a tune!

Meet Gordi.

Gordi's interests are t cooking, cleaning, singing and having friends pop in.

Gordi enjoys it when there are not people being critical of his missed keys and hits that open into another unknown song.  Pity Gordi is tone deaf.

As the people in the know say being tone deaf may have something to do with High Functions Autism disorder [Asbergers].  Having said that it explains a lot about Gordi's behaviour patterns as well as the problems with spelling, reading writing and just plain not hearing you as you speak!
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An annual Teddy Bear Picnic for research

The Teddy Bear's Picnic in Lister Park is an annual event for the families in Bradford.

In the UK's Bradford Lister Park parents and would be parents attend the annual Teddy Bears Picnic.  Why?  The Parents and the children give a yearly sample of blood

 towards the research behind finding out why illness blights so many lives within Bradgford.  Bradford having some of the most deprivves communities within the UK.  

Between 1996 and 2003, the number of children dying in Bradford before they reached their first birthday was almost double the average for England and Wales. This corresponds with levels of childhood illness which are higher than usual, along with much higher rates of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity, asthma and eczema in the city's population as a whole.

The research project, known as Born in Bradford, is looking at every aspect of a child's development to try to get an idea of how factors like environment, education, diet, ethnicity and genes interact together to affect our health. Parents give blood and saliva samples, babies are measured and weighed and their progress will be tracked across the years.


Now once a year everyone participating attends a Teddy Bears Picnic.  What a great use of the Day.

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The Merrythought way of making a Teddy Bear.

The Merrythought company makes bears to order and keeps a huge stock of material ready to cater to every possible taste.

On the upper level of the foundry, below the glass ceiling, stand row upon row of rolls of brightly-coloured fabric.

Merrythought has been making teddy bears for decades

Merrythought has every imaginable shade of brown - coffees, caramels, golds and chocolates. Each piece of fabric has a different feel: there is very soft angora and shaggy mohair, velvets and synthetic pile.

Once the material has been chosen, it is taken down to Leslie Hunnisett, who cuts out the arms, legs and heads.

Leslie uses what look like a series of giant cookie-cutters to cut each shape: ''This is probably the 218th ear I've cut out today," she laughs.

The parts then go to the machinists, who sew them together so the teddies can start to take shape.

Once that is mastered, the limbs are sent over to Pauline Davies who puts the eyes on.

Health and safety rules mean teddy bear eyes are no longer made of glass, but Pauline has drawers and drawers of painted, plastic eyes of all sizes to choose from.

The teddies are then sent over to Sharon Taylor, who operates the huge, noisy stuffing machine.

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Sharon places the limbs over a pipe and operates a pedal to fill each saggy limb with stuffing. 

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The result is baskets full of dismembered teddies with stuffing protruding out of their limbs. Luckily, they do not stay that way for long. Abi Summers quickly puts joints in each of the limbs and sews them up.

The bears now begin to look more complete and they go to Penny Reeves, who sews on their noses and mouths. The snouts are made from a tougher fabric and getting the needle through - and in the right place - can be difficult.

No-one wants a grumpy-looking teddy bear, so making sure the stitch falls in the right place is vital. "You sew down the middle first, then do one on the outside, then the other side and you keep building it up," says Penny.

Before the bears can be packaged up, they need to be groomed by Wendy Edwards. Penny trims away excess material from the eyes and brushes each teddy's fur ''so you can see the eyes and the smile".

With a flourish a ribbon is tied around the teddies neck and the Teddy is finished.

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Reference  BBC news 

He was not invited.

When the Hntsman spider decided to come to the party every one fled.  Some screamed, others shrieked and while one person giggled another went to the kitchen for a glass and  with a piece of paper the Huntsman was trapped.  Before it was released it was told to go find it's lifes cause otherwise it would probably be squished next time someone thought it was listening to all their secrets.

As it was the humans played a games [not about spiders]. Then decided to carry one with the Rac Wac planning the next week.






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