Tag: Sunday song and rhyme

  • Sweetie Pie

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    The 15th September Outlawz, Sunday Song and rhyme challenge is based on the poem Summer’s End by Nancy Hughes We do not celebrate Labor day in the UK. In USA it is celebrated on 1st Monday of September and is a public holiday. In the UK we have Harvest Festival, mainly celebrated in schools and…

  • Red Wheelbarrow

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    This challenge is based on the poem, The Red Wheelbarrow by William Williams (1883 –1963). He was a doctor as well as a poet. The poem was published in 1923. so much dependsupon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the whitechickens Although the poem has very few lines, each line builds up an image.…

  • Dolphins

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    Yet again I nearly missed this one, I thought I had another week to make it. I had been looking at ideas all week, but not started to make! So this one was made in a bit of a hurry. The poem is Summer’s Splendor by the Sea by Patricia L. Cisco Summer’s splendor by…

  • Dog Days

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    This poem for the latest Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme is called Dog Days by Amy Lowell. A ladder sticking up at the open window,The top of an old ladder;And all of Summer is there. Great waves and tufts of wistaria surge across the window,And a thin, belated blossomJerks up and down in the sunlight;Purple…

  • My Country

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    The latest Sunday Song and Rhyme challenge is based on poem My Country by Dorothea Makellar (1885-1968) Dorothea was an Australian poet and this poem was written about Australia when she was 19 and in London. She was born in 1885 and travelled widely in Europe, so would have been away from home for long…

  • Where are the fairies?

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    The Sunday song and rhyme challenge for June 9th is based on the rhyme Where are the Fairies, Written in the early 20th century by Cicely Mary Barker, who was unable to attend school due to epilepsy. She wrote the rhymes and did the illustrations. Fairies were popular at this time, due to Queen Mary…

  • Music Maker

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    The Sunday song and rhyme challenge for May 26th is based on a rhyme called Music Makers, from his book A Children’s Treasury of Milligan. Spike Milligan (1918-2002) was well know for his crazy comedy and nonsense rhymes. Ironically he also suffered from severe depression. For this rhyme I decided I would focus on one…

  • Easter Greetings

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    The Outlawz challenge for this fortnight is Easter themed using the rhyme Happy Easter by Bill Hoeneveld I used a Cricut image from Crafty Mama Studios.  It has 12 layers to cut and stick together so is quite time consuming, it is also quite thick on the front of a card so not ideal for posting.  Mounted…

  • The Swing

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    The Outlawz Song and Rhyme challenge for 17th March, is based on the poem The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson How do you like to go up in a swing,Up in the air so blue?Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thingEver a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall,Till I…

  • Leap Year

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    The Sunday song and rhyme challenge poem for this time is chosen by me. This year is a leap year, so at the end of this month we get an extra day. “Leap years are years where an extra day is added to the end of the shortest month, February. This so-called intercalary day, February…