Tracy the Papersaurus or Recyclesaurus.

I took the second dinosaur into school today. The kids were going to call it Theresa to go with the other one who's called Terry but apparently Theresa May has spoilt it for them.They decided on Tracy instead but Tina was a close second.

I've decided to donate these dinosaurs to the school instead of renting them out in exchange for paper. We simply don't have the storage space at the moment.

The class teacher has decided to keep it in her office instead of having one in both year 3 class rooms so we'll see how that works out. Hopefully I'll get the other three finished and ready to put into schools over the summer holidays. I don't think I can cope with having more dinosaurs than that around the house!

I started rushing this one so it crumpled under its own wight a little. I managed to fix most of it but one of it's feet is a bit bent. No one aside from me seems to be able to tell. The grand plan was to give it a crutch or crutches. I've seen a few children with them at the school and I thought it would be a nice touch. Unfortunately life got in the way and I ran out of time. Plus my youngest daughter was very keen to take it in and show it off. I wasn't so keen on taking on the mile long walk to the school with another heavy dinosaur.

Perhaps it is for the best that the project is moving more slowly than I originally planned or would like as it means I am forced to spend more time thinking it through. Not that I haven't been thinking about this for a long time, it's just that my dreams are far bigger than my resources.


Still, in the mean time it's bringing a lot of joy to kids and amusement to parents (not as much amusement as the pink elephant incident but that's a whole other story). I live on a main road and I've been putting things out to dry in the front 'garden'.

I heard a small boy walk past demanding to know where the dinosaur had gone. I got the bit I was working on finished and hid it in the bushes so he'd see it when he came past again but I didn't hear anything. I'm sure there will be plenty of other creatures as time goes on but clearly dinosaurs are the coolest (apart from dragons obviously).