The Tuffeteers Childrens Corner and snippets of Tuffet History!

Childrens Corner
Contents:Little Miss Muffet/Make your own Miss Muffet/Baa Baa Black Sheep video/Make your own sheep masks/sheep dot to dot/Sheep finger puppet










Little Miss Muffet sat on a Tuffet, but what is a tuffet? I'll tell you................ no-one knows for certain - you may be interested to read this in-depth poem of the possibly true tale of Miss Muffett taken from http://www.brookmans.com/history/littlemissmuffet.shtml a great historic review of the history of the original poem is also to be found at this site.

*Little Miss Muffet by Scott Gustafson

*Footnote:  The caption reads, "There are so many light and interesting touches in this beautifully colored and bordered work. She sits in a formal garden of the 18th century, next to her faithful King Charles Spaniel. A suave little spider has come to 'sit down beside her' but perhaps this Miss Muffet will not be frightened away. Scott says: 'The sheet music at her feet is a Tarantella, a popular dance of the period that, according to folklore, when danced wards off the effects of the venomous bite of a tarantula. Whether or not that's true I don't know, but it was a nice musical tie-in to the spidery theme I was painting.'"

Miss Muffet is said to be a one Patience Muffet whose stepfather was the famous entomologist - for more information on this and other nursey rhyme origins take a look at Yahoo answers using the link above!

Great activities for the children with Miss Muffet, colouring and drawing pages, just print out and away you go - not always just for the children! If drawing is not quite enough you could try your hand at making your very own toilet roll Miss Muffet!


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Toilet roll Miss Muffet

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Baa Baa Black sheep

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Now for something different - all thanks to the Jacob Sheep Society!!

Make your own sheep masks - click on the links below for the templates!

http://jacobsheepsociety.co.uk/JACLUB.htm

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Click on here to download a printable version of this lovely dot-to-dot sheep!

Drawing animals can be very difficult, here is a great way to learn how to draw a sheep! (Courtesy of activityvillage.co.uk )

How to make your own sheep finger puppet!!

 (http://www.ichild.co.uk/activities/view/616/Sheep-Finger-Puppet)