We love the re-issued Jenny Linsky books from 1949 from the New York Review of Books. This Zara kids knit cap with Windy's red scarf is a perfect Jenny Linsky costume!
Windy: A Rainy Day Bird
This is the second in our series of DIY costume ideas, inspired by our Halloween story!
With your socks of yellow, you won't mind the weather, especially if you happen to have some nice yellow or red gumboots. Since it usually dry in Windy's paper Orchard, she's wearing her usual buckle shoes, but if you live somewhere rainy (like we do) why not wear some bright yellow tights with your wellies. If you like, you can even wear the wings over your raincoat! You will stand out on a drizzly day with your beautiful bright wings (use light fabrics that won't soak up too much water). If you want to keep your wings dry, perhaps a sky blue umbrella will do the trick.
The wings are easy to make, see this great roundup by Handmade Charlotte and the original post with template by Llevo el invierno.
All our costume ideas are on our Halloween pinboard, too.
Make a Windy scarf!
Every fall our crafty attentions turn to knitting and weaving. If you've always wanted to knit, our super-easy Windy scarf pattern is ready for you: find the pattern and notes here.
Find more crafty projects from our cast.
We're all over the place!
Our most recent apps, "Meet Windy & friends" and "Sunny's Hootenanny" are the first two featured apps for kids on the App Store (iTunes) — hooray! It's a big deal for a small independent series like ours :)
Meanwhile, we are taking a well-deserved holiday ... first stop: Paris!
Heading off for the holidays with two NEW apps and one of them is FREE!
We are running to catch our flight! Hope we make it ... Guess where we are going in the comments below. If you guess correctly we'll send you a copy of Small Wonder featuring our own Sunny!
Before we left, we finished up all our homework and we have left TWO new apps on the iTunes store for you and one of them is FREE!
Our newest appisode is "Meet Windy & friends" on iTunes and on Google Play!
This gentle app is full of simple educational games, perfect for kids 3+.
The great news is that it is ***FREE*** on the App Store!
Our other new appisode might just be our favourite: "Sunny's Hootenanny"
This sweet story teaches us how to identify the basic elements of music and once we learned them, we made our own music video! See it in the grand finale of "Sunny's Hootenanny"!
and Google Play
and on Amazon!
A Valentine from Windy!
We have a new Valentine's Day story coming out on Android: "Windy's Valentine Delight"! Find out who everybody chooses as their Valentine ... it's not always who you think, or even what you think!
On Google Play and all Android devices today — we'll be updating the links this morning, stay tuned ...