Flour babies...the reckoning

The idea behind the project was to show children just how unrelenting being a parent is. Without the worst scenarios of crying, feeding and dirty nappies, the children knew they had it easy compared to a real baby; however nevertheless the requirement to keep their baby with them at all times and keep it safe gave an insight into 'parenthood'. For some of the children it became a real struggle to juggle their learning tasks with the supervision of their 'offspring'!

As a class, they were generally very successful and, apart from three 'deaths', the children cared for their babies remarkably well. At this point I would like to say a huge thank you to all the parents who supported the project - taking photos, ensuring the 'babies' were supervised at all times and even waking their children to 'feed' or 'care for' their babies in the night!