Socking it to them

You know when you travel on Singapore Airlines, especially if you travel on one of their delightful night flights, they remind you that you should not take your shoes off during the flight ... your feet swell, and then you can't get your shoes back on, so I'm told. And then they come around and give you a little plastic bag containing an "Amenity Kit". Inside the kit there is a little toothbrush and a tiny tube of toothpaste - great idea - and a pair of socks.

The socks even have a special non-slip section - so you can slip them on and pad around in them - ? Without taking your shoes off - ?

Obviously I have been missing something here. There is some other purpose for these socks. Maybe they are not socks at all. We have been on a few Singapore flights now, so I have quite a collection of them.

Time to teach the Little Emperors a lesson

So when yet another kindy lesson swung around, and I was searching for a new and interesting way to keep them entertained and maybe even teach them a few words of English along the way ...

How about some sock puppets? A few well-placed buttons, and voila!

One friendly little snock sake - er, sake snock, Sooky the sock snake ... or some such.

And did the kiddies love it? They squealed with delight, and some of them even held up a pudgy finger for the snake to 'bite' or maybe it was more of a suck. Sooky tried to give some of them a kiss on their peachy little cheeks, and they weren't too sure about that.

But then, when they discovered that I had a whole lot of Sookies in my bag, and I let a few of them try putting their short little arms inside and terrorise their classmates with them, it was too good to be true.

Sssssso. Did they learn any words? Aw, what does it matter. They had fun, ay.