to dread nursery teddy visit

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Got a picture from Dp showing me nursery teddy has come to stay.

Cue mutual groans when children gone bed as we remember when ds had similar and it was a rush to get done.

Im sure these things are done for amusement factor so come on give me some funny things to get Ted to do!

We have him for a whole week!

Could he work on a crack habit?

Spend a night in jail

My friend's son was given 'nursery teddy'. He was due round for a play date and she cheerfully dropped off both NT and a digital camera with which to record the whole day.

We took great pleasure of taking pics of Ted taking Mr Potato Head roughly from behind, in bed with Barbie smoking a fag and on a sunbed with goggles on.

We took some normal ones too....

Teddy with D&V?

A spa day - chuck him in the washing machine to get all the dust and germs off him .

I washed the school bear, he was fine.

well...the week before we had Ted he'd eaten too much cake and vomited in the loo- there were pictures and everything!
I'm afraid we were boring and just stuck him on the trampoline. Please dont stay up all night writing a sodding poem. As a teacher... the whole point is to get the kids drawing and maybe writing a bit, whatever you do let your DC do it.

We had a rabbit, not a teddy, but it helped change ds's nappy and then stole a nappy and wore it himself. Then when he went shopping he wondered off to the carrots and was nibbling on them. Then he had a ride on the shop checkout. Then he had a play date with Dd's pony and they both ate carrots.

I did a diary with photos 20 odd years ago that was given to staff documenting bears' week of torture!, DC had the sanitised version!

I think it's not what you do, but how you write it up. NT had been on holiday before coming to us, and I wasn't sure how we could match that. But I loved making a story to go with the photos and ended up making DD a photobook with the same pictures and story.

We went to the supermarket, had a bath, made cakes, dressed teddy up in doll's clothes, looked around the garden.

DD wasn't 2 when we had NT - so drawings and writing were out of the question.

I'm a bit sad that there is no NT to come home to us in her current nursery. However you did get NT's diary home with NT and were able to see how well the other parents spelt, what their homes looked like etc and in that way it is a little .

Youve all made me laugh!

DD not yet two so no writing or drawing yet.

Think he might get to see red arrows tomorrow.

Yes Ive noticed all the nice clothes etc in book and been noseing at what others do.

Fortunately child before refused to play with NT so nothing major to follow!

Think he Will get wheels balanced on car tomorrow with me!

We left NT in the shoe shop on a Saturday afternoon. Only realised 3 hours later when we got home.

Thankfully, some kind old dear had handed the damn bear in so we retrieved him.

Great story for the book though - 'Bear spent night in shoe shop'

We were never given him again.

Result!

Ha! I remember this. It was very competitive at the DSs nursery: photos of Teddy in Southwold/St Mawes/Cephalonia/Rajasthan. I don't think we got further than Clissold Park.

I don't think our nursery has one. Pity, this would surely bring out my childish creative side.

my DD got photo with nursery teddy in the digger bucket of a JCB mending a road near us, she loved it unfortunately most of the boys at nursery thought it was unfair a "girl" had got JCB ride

DS had "Bambi" thankfully on the weekend we went to the RSPCA to choose a new cat thereby giving us ample opportunity for new and exciting activities.
DS was at private school at the time and Bambis diary was an exercise in who could treat the effing thing to the most extravagant weekend :o

If it were my house, this would describe the series of pictures:

DD holding the teddy with delight...with interested looking spaniel in the background.

DD looking horrified as she is mugged of teddy by aforementioned spaniel.

Teddy spinning round the washing machine

Teddy hanging off the line

Teddy 'in a safe place' ie, inaccessible to spaniel and the child that cannot learn that if you leave food or toys out, they WILL be taken by the dog.

Travelling on escalators, in a lift, on a bus, train,,,,

The class I work in has a bear. It is easily possible for parents to try too hard with these things. Just saying.

You are aiming this at two year olds, not the staff or other parents.

Other parents got ridiculously competitive with the A-Z of travel the teddy was supposed to be doing. After a good chuckle at the book and the many photos of expensive sparkling cars we photoshopped teddy into a human cannonball pic. Job done. ;-)

Girls Brigade got one. DD was the first to have it and I set the bar fairly high! I had a school uniform that was too small for the doll I had bought it for, but it fit the bear perfectly. When DD did ballet, I made the bear a tutu to go in too. I also made some PJs for it.

Love the human cannon ball Ice.

Thank god DC have never had to do this.

I am not very imaginative.

A class I worked in had a polar bear and he was truly filthy, so when the children asked who would get him for half term I said he wanted to go to London with me. They gallantly agreed I could take Snowy, on the condition that there were photos.

Snowy went to London Fashion Week and lurked hopefully outside Somerset House until a nice man driving the models' buses let him go and sit on the bus for a photo. The children LOVED seeing the pictures. I felt like a massive tit. Snowy celebrated his return home with a big bubble bath in a tub of Vanish.

I have 5 DCs and by the time we got to my youngest having "Beat Baby" for the fourth time I'd had enough.
Beat Baby wasvery badly behaved at our house, he threw his organic hummous and falafel on the floor and demanded a Happy Meal and a FrootShoot, and refused to go to bed until eight o'clock and he weed on the mat in the bathroom and unrolled all the toilet paper into a heap on the floor.