Cut Out and Keep: Christmas Card

It's another cut out and keep Christmas post!
This week we bring you a Cosmos and Crayons Ginge and Sloth Christmas card and envelope.

Merry Christmas from Sloth and Ginge.

Simply download the three printouts below. You will need two sheets of card, scissors and glue to make 2 cards with envelopes.

Print this one first, full size A4 portrait.

Pop your card back in your printer,
 with the previous printout on the reverse
 and the blank side facing up.

 You the should have two cards, with a front and inside printed. Chop these out with your scissors following the faint grey line horizontally across the page.

Printout two envelopes, full size A4 landscape.

Cut out your envelope prints, fold and glue the tabs in place, and voila!

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Cut Out and Keep: Anatomy Snow Globes

We have a Christmas special Cut Out and Keep project for you to create!

Once a week up until Christmas we will be doing a Cut Out and Keep Christmas themed project, to help you have a Cosmos and Crayons themed festive time.

This week, it's anatomy themed snow globe decorations!

Simply download the two sheets below, and print onto a piece of card (full size A4) turning the sheet over and printing the back on to the reverse. Then hole punch the top, attach a piece of sting and pop on your tree. You could hang them anywhere.

Click the image, then right click and save to your computer :)

And the same again.

If you have any photos of your creation, email them to chopstitchcrafts@gmail.com to be featured on the blog :)

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Science Facts Thursday: All About Koalas

Cor blimey, didgeryi-doo, here's some science facts for you.
This week it's koalas!

Koalas mostly live in Eastern Australia, where its lovely and sunny and warm. They spend the majority of their time up in trees. They have sharp claws that help them climb up tall trees. Their closest relative is the Wombat.
Droughts and bush fires are the Koalas biggest threats. Dingos and Pythons will om nom nom them if given the chance.

Koalas are vegan, eating mostly Eucalyptus leaves. Due to the limited nutritional value and calorie content of Eucalyptus leaves, Koalas can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.

To attract a female, the male koala lets out a loud bellowing sound. This also intimidates rivals.

Koalas have similar finger prints to humans!

Koalas are marsupial animals, like kangaroos, which means they have a pouch on their belly in which they carry their young, usually for around 6 months or until they have grown strong enough to cling onto their mothers back.

A baby Koala is called a Joey.

They are super cute, but be careful if you ever see one in the wild, they are still a wild animal and my bite or scratch you.

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Seasons Greetings!

We are very excited here at Cosmos and Crayons, as it's nearly Christmas!
Well, we still have a few more festive weeks to go.
So, we decorated the blog with a festive theme!
What do you think?

Apologies for the lack of posts the past few weeks, we have been experiencing technical difficulties with our internet. We missed updating you all on science facts :(

Keep you eyes peeled for some fun festive posts!

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Science Facts Thursday: The Venus Flytrap

This week we bring you some facts on the Venus Flytrap!

The Venus Flytrap is a carnivorous plant, which means it eats bugs! Eww!

They are luciously green, with long leaves and stems that have a heart shaped head with a pink cushiony inner. They can also flower, usually in the springtime.

Like all plants, they still need sunlight and water to grow, but get most of their nutrients from insects. This means they can live in areas were the soil isn't as rich in delicious nutrients such as swamps.

Their favourite foods are ants, spiders, beetles and flies. Totally mega gross.

Firstly, the flytrap attacts insects to come over, by oozing tasty nectar. Once they land on the pink cushiony pads, this tickles tiny tiny hairs that let the flytrap know food has arrived. They rely on this technique as they have no eyes.
The flytrap snaps shut, trapping its prey inside. It then produces enzymes that digest all the nutrients from the unlucky bug, this process can take upto ten days. It then reopens, leaving the left overs, and awaits more noms to come by.

Pop the music on pause ^ and check out this video to see the flytrap in action, be warned, it is scary.

Hope you enjoyed this weeks facts, don't forget to pop by next week for more illustrated science facts.

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Science Facts Thursday: Sloths

We're bringing science facts back, on a Thursday!
We missed doing these regular fun facts.

These week we bring you:

There are two main species of sloth, the three toed and the two toed.

Three toed, like our pal Sloth, look as though they are always smiling, due to their dark markings in their facial colouring. They also have two extra vertebrae in their neck, so can turn their heads almost all the way around! This is handy when keeping an eye out for predators, and people stealing tasty leaves.

The two toed variety spend alot of their time upside down, and are slightly larger than the three toed.

Sloths live in the tropical rainforests of South America.
The Pigmy three toed sloth is currently critically endangered :(

Sloths are vegan. Nomming on mostly leaves, fruit and twigs. Most of their energy is spent climbing down trees once a week for a poop. Their diet means they have a slow metabolism, so they don't need to go to the loo very often, which is handy as they would be pretty defenceless against large predators. 

Due to their lazyness of not washing often, or even moving, algae grows in the fur of sloths which can turn their fur a greenish colour, which is handy for camouflaging amongst the leaves.

So now you know all about sloths and Sloth.

Don't forget to pop back next Thursday for more science facts.
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November: Cosmos and Crayons Theme Tune!

Remember, Remember the fifth of November. Gun powder, treason and plot.

It's the first of November, which means a new theme for Cosmos and Crayons!

We went for a Bonfire theme, what do you think?

Safety first. Be careful if you are handling sparklers.

Is that music? YES! We now have a theme tune! You can pause or adjust the volume at any point at the top of your screen ^ 

My very talented boyfriend created the theme for us, it's perfect and we love it! 

You can check out his other musical creations here:

Lewis Murphy's Magical Music

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