Well, we tried....

Here's Pattu's entry for the March challenge. With Pattu, it is very difficult to hold her attention for long. So I had to think of ideas that can get done in less than 10 mins - that was my challenge (besides the fact that I am not particularly creative i.e,).
So, we started by making the paper plate clowns where she had to only stick things on to a plate and boy did she enjoy it! She wanted to convert all the plates in the house into clowns. 
What we used for the paper plate clowns: two rings from a toy for the eyes, a red hair band cut and stuck for the mouth and a black hair band cut and shredded for the hair. I did the cutting part while Pattu did the rest as instructed.
Then we found a bath scrub and wrapped it over a ball. We fastened it behind with some hair clips (one of the pics will reveal this :D) and cut out some packing material for the eyes and the mouth. To be honest, we wanted to make a cute looking puppy but this one ended up looking like a forlorn alien LOL! Here too, I helped with the cutting and Pattu did the rest...with a bit of struggle.
The gloves gave us an idea - the dwarfs. Black wool for the hair, black dots for eyes and red painted smile.
Then we rummaged further to find the loofahs - The maiden's dress is a fluffy loofah. We found a hair clip that had the girl. Inspired by that, Pattu's care taker thought of another maiden with a paper fan dress so that the loofah maiden had company. Pattu liked the fan folding...
Then the duckling - that's another loofah with a handle. We found some pegs to go as the eyes and the beak is a pistachio shell coloured red using crayon. Pattu did all of this.
Then we had to make a story around it.... so, there it goes... phew!

 The story is in verse (because I am very lazy) and this is how it goes:

The little alien was lost and sad

He couldn’t find his mom and dad

Where are you,

oh where have you gone?

Will you be back by 

the break of dawn? 

The five happy dwarfs came along

And played a happy peppy song

Nothing seemed to

cheer him though

Home was just where

he wanted to go

The plate clowns vowed to make him smile

And they tried and tried for a long while

The little one just turned away

The clowns didn’t know what to say

Rest of the story...

Then came the maidens, with dimples and curls

They danced around and did some twirls

‘Oh no’, said the dwarfs and the clown

How do we get him to throw that frown 

Then came a ducking lost and scared

She is lost and no one cared

The alien cuddled her, ‘come let’s play’

He sang, he danced, he made her gay

The dwarfs, the clowns, the maidens broke into a song

Happy and merry, they danced along

So, that's that....