🎄 🎁 Getting Christmassy 🎄 🎁
We’ve been a bit late getting the Christmas season started at home this year, but here’s last year’s seasonal painting: I’ll be painting a cheeky new picture this year and will share once it’s completed.
Seasons and Festivals
Celebrate the passage of the seasons and the numerous festivals throughout the year.
Mushroom’s E-Magazine Issue 3: A Belated Halloween Celebration
Welcome to the third issue of Mushroom’s E-Magazine. In this issue the students explore the popular festival of Halloween and consider its place in amongst the English-speaking community in China. We hope you enjoy reading their perspectives. Click on the cover below to open the pdf 😀
Silly Poem: Seasons
Spring, the grass as green as lime, Colors, flowers, shine in the sun. Children playing in springtime, Season of life, season of fun. Summer, the children leave school, Snacks include ice-cream, fizzy pop, People have fun in the pool. When summer ends, temperature drops. Autumn (or fall as Americans say), Golden leaves let … Read more
Celebrating the Rugby 2025
My team won three trophies last season and has just kicked off this season with a strong win. Time to get painting to celebrate 😃 I call this ‘Rugby Colours 2025’:
The Hibernator – Part 1: The Rave
In the year 2147, the sprawling metropolis known as planet Earth was a labyrinth of steel and glass that stretched endlessly toward the horizon. Wild nature was a distant memory buried beneath layers of concrete and neon lights. Yet pockets of woodland still clung to existence, rare sanctuaries of soporific green amidst the relentless march … Read more
No Halloween?
What’s your favorite festival? Mine is definitely Halloween. And to think my school actually postponed it! I mean of all the outrageous ways to ruin a kid’s childhood… And it’s all because some dumb-as-dog-poo big guy somewhere cares about their pride more than kids! Of course I still celebrated it at home but it really … Read more
Seasons in the Garden
This was the last Magic People book we published before we put this project on hold while we began work on the Adventures in Aladinland project. It contains short stories of various Magic People adventures throughout the seasons and is a simple introduction to traditional festivals from English and Chinese cultures. The stories developed through … Read more
Elf goes to Work
This is perhaps the most popular Magic People book we have published to date. It is December so Happy Elf must go to work for Father Christmas at the North Pole. A couple of playful Yetis and a naughty Ice Troll cause some trouble but luckily Happy Elf’s friends come to help make sure all … Read more
Painting Zombies
This is the second painting lesson as part of a Halloween themed project that I taught at Yinhai Academy, Qingdao. The first lesson in the series was Pumpkin Painting (unfortunately lost with a server change). The artistic aim of this lesson is to paint a zombie and the educational aims are: to think about the … Read more