The English Family Anderson is a new vegan comic for children about a family embarking on the adventure of a vegan self-sufficient life.  We are counting down to the publication of the first episode 🙂
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The English Family Anderson – vegan comic for children coming soon on Violet’s Veg*n e-Comics
The Andersons are coming! The countdown begins!
The English Family Anderson is a new vegan comic for children about a family embarking on the adventure of a vegan self-sufficient life.
Fox Whisperer
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Come closer dear, so no one else will hear,
Allow me to softly whisper:
“I’ve loved you since I first caught a glimpse
Of you enchanting the vista.”
Please Please Please
Please please please let me take my ease,
Let me ride on your back for a while.
My legs are short and not as strong as yours,
I’ve been walking for more than a mile.
I’ll just climb on and I won’t take long
Try to stand still here for a minute.
I really appreciate you helping me out
And I promise not to fidget.
Thank you thank you thank you Mum
This ride is good and comfy.
I can see from your reflection though,
That you enjoy it as much as me!
What they don’t tell you at school about Leonardo da Vinci
WHAT THEY WILL TELL YOU:
- Leonardo da Vinci is perhaps best known as a painter, with his legendary works including the Mona Lisa, the Vitruvian Man and the Last Supper, among others.
- Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t just an incredible artist, he was an inventor, scientist, mathematician, engineer, writer, musician and much more.
- The Mona Lisa is perhaps the most well known painting in the world. It is a half-length portrait of a woman who, along with the composition, background and other details, has been the subject of much speculation and discussion. It is believed that Leonardo da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa around 1503. It has been on permanent display at the Louvre Museum in Paris for over 200 years.
WHAT THEY PROBABLY WON’T TELL YOU IS THAT HE WAS WIDELY REPUTED TO BE:
We know this because Giuliano di Lorenzo de’ Medici (Leonardo’s patron for three years, from 1513 to 1516) financed the explorer Andrea Corsali’s voyage on a Portuguese ship and in a long letter to his patron Corsali made a remark about Leonardo when describing followers of Hinduism:
Alcuni gentili chiamati Guzzarati non si cibano dicosa alcuna che tenga sangue, ne fra essi loro consen tono che si noccia adalcuna cosa animata, come it nostro Leonardo da Vinci.
English translation:
Certain infidels called Guzzarati are so gentle that they do not feed on anything which has blood, nor will they allow anyone to hurt any living thing, like our Leonardo da Vinci.
What a guy! 😉
What they don’t tell you at school about Pythagoras
They’ll tell you a lot of stuff about Pythagoras at school, like:
- He worked out that in a right angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides: that’s Pythagorean Theorem
- Pythagoras is often referred to as the first pure mathematician.
- He was born on the island of Samos, Greece in 569 BC.
- Pythagoras was well educated, and he played the lyre throughout his lifetime, knew poetry and recited Homer. He was interested in mathematics, philosophy, astronomy and music, and was greatly influenced by Pherekydes (philosophy), Thales (mathematics and astronomy) and Anaximander (philosophy, geometry).
But they probably won’t tell you that:
And “Pythagorean diet” was a common name for the abstention from eating meat and fish, until the coining of “vegetarian” in the 19th century.
Stick that in your triangle and measure it!! 🙂
What they don’t tell you at school about Albert Einstein
WHAT THEY WILL TELL YOU:
And ….
- He produced perhaps one of the most famous equations ever: E = mc² (energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light squared).
- Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on theoretical physics.
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He worked on many other influential theories and projects including: the deflection of light by gravity, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, Brownian motion, an explanation for capillary action and much more.
What they don’t often tell you is that towards the end of his life:
Genius! 🙂
Just keep going
Muddy Boots
The leaves are brown and they’re tumbling down,
The rain is falling faster.
The mud is wet; how deep the puddles get,
My boots are a disaster!
🙂
They’re on their way
The Anderson family are on their way. Won’t be long now.
Keep hope alive!
Spores
fino a domani
Yep
See you tomorrow 😉
Natural Immunity?
 Tomorrow.  Be here.
And the Bipedicus Destructicus specifically?
hasta mañana
And, what’s a volpar again?
To be continued …. tomorrow (of course!)
So, not just a scary story?
And? Find out tomorrow 😉
What kind of volpar?
To be continued …. tomorrow 🙂
Isn’t that Earth?
What’s a volpar infection? Find out tomorrow! 🙂
Whatever it takes
doin’ the right thing
Team Mates
Fair’s Fair
ITCHYCOO PARK is just around the corner
Itchycoo Park – What could you do there?
NEW STORY COMING SOON 🙂
The English Family Anderson – back story
A Dog’s Love
When I need to love, my dog is faithfully there.
In the sweetest way, dogs show us how much they care.
They inspire us to play, to go for walks or a run,
A dog’s love is comforting and makes life more fun.
They’re willing love objects at any time of day.
And somehow my dog understands what I say.
From a dog’s warm welcome, true love is understood.
Their eyes reveal honesty; their heart is pure and good.
Great genius made the wagging tail, the ‘happy’ indicator,
Seeing a dog’s tail wag, my own happiness grows greater!
A dog’s Love offers a calming, therapeutic feeling,
Petting a dog’s coat has a wonderful way of healing.
A dog’s love truly feels as though it comes from a higher place
than the oftentimes self-serving love shown by the human race.
This interspecies relationship helps my soul to grow.
My Love should be more Dog-like; I am only human, though.
Point of View
Point of View by Shel Silverstein
Sheldon Allan “Shel” Silverstein, was an American poet, singer-songwriter, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children’s books.
Won’t be long now
She said, he said …
I will not …
I will not eat no choccy that was made by child slaves,
I will not eat no choccy made wiv milk that’s stole from calves,
I will not eat no choccy filled wiv sugar white from bones,
I only eat the good stuff – organic, fair trade, vegan ones!
🙂
Daisy-Blue
Dumb Animals
Junior’s thinking …
“About words and what people think they mean.”
“I don’t follow.”
“Well consider the word ‘people’, for example.  If  I asked someone what the word ‘people’ means they would probably say: “It’s the plural of ‘person’ and a person is a human being.””
“Ok, I’m with you so far …”
“but I think that definition is incomplete.”
“How do you mean?”
“To my mind, the definition of ‘a person’ is anyone with an individual personality. Â Like you Chiksa, you have your own distinct personality don’t you?”
“Absolutely!”
“And you’re not like every other chicken in the yard?”
“Certainly not! I’m not bossy like Henny-Penny, or painfully shy like Henrietta.”
“So you see my point. Â You are not human but you have a personality and that makes you a person. That makes all animals people.”
“That’s the logical conclusion to draw, yes.”
“Which brings me to my next thought: why do people think it’s ok to eat people?”
It’s our birthday! Hurrah!
Wear your vegan on your shirt
Vegan Doll
My sister has a vegan doll who has bright orange hair.
My sister said her vegan doll is prob’ly very rare.
She said there can’t be many dolls who simply couldn’t bear
To attend a tea party if there is cow’s milk there.
****
“I have to say, I understand,” my sister said to Mum,
“Why Rosa doll won’t eat an egg out of a chicken’s bum.
‘Thou shalt not kill’ said Reverend John, not ‘thou shalt not kill people‘.
Isn’t it right to be kind when we can? Shouldn’t that be our rule of thumb?”
****
My sister smiled at Rosa, her red-haired vegan dolly,
“I’m going to do what you do, so are Mum and Dad and Molly.
And all of my dolls will be vegan now so tea parties won’t exclude you,
The tea will only have oat milk in and there’ll be vegan cake on the trolley.”
There once was a vegan called Megan
There once was a vegan called Megan
Whose best friend was a fish-shaped alien,
She did love to read,
And to grow things from seed,
She loved animals and never would eat one!
🙂
Go to the Megan & Flos stories to read more about Megan 🙂
Vegan? Why?
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Re-Knitting
Knitting is a very enjoyable hobby as well as being a very useful skill. Â To be able to make your own clothes, toys and accessories is a brilliant way of being self-reliant and can also be eco-friendly.
As a vegan shopper you won’t want to buy wool or alpaca or silk, but as an eco-minded shopper you won’t want to buy acrylic. Â The problem is that organic, eco-friendly, natural yarns are very expensive.
So what do you do if you can’t afford the eco-stuff? Â Simple – you Re-Knit!
Browsing in charity shops and second hand shops you’re bound to find knitwear that is a pretty colour, but unattractive design. Â If you buy it, wash it and unravel it, you can re-knit that colour into something beautiful. Â It’s just another way to recycle, or upcycle if you like, and it’s very enjoyable and satisfying. Â Here are a few things we made with unravelled yarn and oddments:
This matching hat and mittens was made with acrylic yarn unravelled from 2 different machine-knit jumpers. The problem with unravelling mass-produced machine-knits is that the yarn is cut at the end of each row, it’s not continuous like with hand-knits. So the ends of the yarn had to knotted together as each row was unravelled. Quite tedious and time-consuming but it results in interesting balls of yarn which, when knitted together, produce a unique effect. Leaving the dangling ends of each knot untrimmed creates a shabby chic effect .
Blanket made by sewing together little knitted squares
The yarn from these saggy old hats was unravelled and knitted into …
… this gorgeous beret
An enjoyable way to give new life to old knitwear and keep it out of landfill 🙂
Don’t know how to knit? Â No problem – watch this brilliant video:
And for the left-handed:
UPDATE:
I’ve just finished the hoodie I was knitting in the photo at the top.  I wanted a warm chunky knit but didn’t have any thick yarn so this is knitted with 3 strands of unravelled DK acrylic; lots of different colours and oddments.  It’s so soft and warm, like wrapping yourself in a blanket before you go outside.  Now I’ve just got to find a zip for it 🙂
Further update:
I’ve just finished another one here and if you would like to make one yourself, the pattern is at the bottom of this post 🙂
Gentle Linus
Look how gentle and careful Linus is when he plays with his babies 🙂
Lovely Pink Pyjamas
Eve’s been having fun with our Reflecto Girl paper doll.  She decided she needed some pyjamas 🙂
Meet the family
You’ve heard of the Swiss Family Robinson?
Well this is the English Family Anderson:
Their story of vegan self-sufficiency on a budget (on a bus) is coming soon to Violet’s Veg*n e-Comics.
🙂
Be Inspired. Be Very Inspired.
Art Toppling Tobacco
Art Toppling Tobacco is an anti-smoking campaign in the form of an annual art competition.  It is free to enter and open to anyone of any age, worldwide, so why don’t you have a go?  Below are some of the children’s submissions from last year.
By Julia, aged 10 from Australia
By Juliana, aged 6 from Romania
By Isabella aged 14 from Australia
By Kevin, aged 16 from Canada
Inspired to have a go?  Go on then, enter here 🙂
But don’t wait too long – the closing date for this year is 22nd October.
Reflecto Girl Paper Doll
Make your own Reflecto Girl paper doll 🙂
All you need is some cardboard (maybe from an old cereal box); some paper (I used the back of some sketchbook pages I’d already used); a pencil; some paint or crayons and some scissors (careful with those!)
First draw a picture of Renee in her underwear (include a semi circle at the base which will form part of the stand)
colour her
cut her out (remembering to cut around the semi-circle at the base, not around her feet)
You might find at this point that she flops over a little when you stand her up. If so, you can draw around her on another piece of card, and make her stiffer by sticking that to the back with a little water-based glue
Now draw her some clothes. I chose to draw her Reflecto Girl costume and her dungarees which she wore over her costume in episode 3 – but you can make any clothes you like, and as many as you like. Place the cardboard doll on a piece of paper and draw round her. Â To draw where the feet and neck are on your clothes, hold the paper over the doll against a window and trace. Once you have the outlines drawn, you can use your imagination in drawing the clothes. Â NB You must also remember to draw the tabs that will be folded round her body to attach the clothes.
Colour them in and cut them out.
Now you need to get her standing up by herself. To do this you need a strip of cardboard into which you cut 2 slits (half the length of the width of the strip), the same distance from each end. Then cut 2 slits of equal length in the semi-circle base of the doll (close but not too close to the outer edges).
Slot these pieces together like so. And there she is, your own Reflecto Girl!
Now you can dress her …
… and dress her again (and yes I have noticed that her shoes don’t quite line up with her feet, but nobody’s perfect, so let’s not worry about it).
We hope you enjoy making your own Reflecto Girl and if you do we’d love to see photos 🙂
And whenever you feel like it, you can make her more clothes and accessories.
Miranda wanted her to have some pyjamas and a doll to sleep with:
Make Your Own “Helping Venus” Game
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Venus works hard trying to clean up the rubbish in the ocean in order to save the animals who are being poisoned and ensnared by it.  But since 80% of the rubbish in the oceans originates on land, it’s impossible for her to keep her beloved sea clean.  So, the rest of us need to make sure that all our rubbish is properly disposed and not littered.  More than that, we need to actually pick up other people’s litter in order to protect wild animals and help Venus.
Yuck! That sounds like a dirty job, and it’s important to take care not to pick up anything dangerous like broken glass or needles (ask a grown up to deal with that stuff) but if we don’t do it, who will? Of course it would be better in the long run if we stop buying things that don’t degrade harmlessly in the environment – namely plastic – and then this nasty litter problem might be solved.
Anyway, I’ve invented a board game that you can make for yourself and all you need is paper; something with which to draw or paint; stones or buttons or whatever little things you’ve got lying around to use as counters; and a dice pinched from another game.
1. Paint an aerial view (map-type) picture of Venus’s home town (it doesn’t have to be the same mine, you can use your imagination 🙂 )
2. Add places to visit, like shops and cafes
3. Then add ways to score points like picking up litter; refusing to buy plastic items; recycling what you’ve found or bought; and freeing animals who have been trapped in cages.
4. Finally add stepping stones which link all these places on your map.
Now your picture should look something like this:
NOW YOU’RE READY TO PLAY!
Imagine you have come to visit Venus and are staying at the campsite (place all the counters at the campsite to start). But Venus is out diving, cleaning up the rubbish in the sea, so while you’re waiting for her you can explore the town.
Each person rolls the dice and the one with the highest score starts.
When you roll the dice you move that number of spaces (stepping stones) from the campsite. You can go in any direction but you can’t change direction in the middle of one roll.
The idea is to go around the town, accumulating points by landing on the award-giving spots. You have to roll the exact number to land on the award-spots (and that doesn’t mean the stepping stone next to the award-spot – you actually land on the award-spot).
You can go around the town as many times as you like and land on the same awards more than once, but if you go back to the campsite the game will be over.
In other words, the game can last as long as you like. As soon as the first person gets back to the campsite, the game is over and you add up all your points. The person with the most points is the winner (not the first person back to the campsite). So, you need to be aware of when you are in the lead on points and then get back to the campsite as quick as you can before someone else overtakes your score.
It’s fun and very easy to make 🙂
Kids’ Ocean Day
Venus Aqueous #3 is here!
CLICK HERE FOR EPISODE 3 OF VENUS AQUEOUS, AND FIND OUT WHY VENUS IS SO CROSS!
Venus 3 …. any day now!
Prep is nearly over – Venus Aqueous #3 will be here by the end of the week!
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