Dino Tails and Scary Tales

More coronavirus creativity

It's been over a month now since we started our lockdown at home because of the coronavirus. The first week wasn't very fun - Mum and Dad were busy working, I was missing my friends from school and I was bored just being stuck in the house.

But since then it's actually become pretty fun. William and me get to play with our toys in the dining room where the table used to be (and which is now in William's room for Mum and Dad to work on), there's a great school app that I love doing maths puzzles on with my iPad, and being at home gives me lots of time to get creative.

Dad challenged me to come up with some different drawings, and the first one I did was this picture of some dinosaurs next to a volcano. There's an Ankylosaurus being eaten by a Velociraptor, and a T-Rex snarling at the top.

One of the things I love as much as dinosaurs is space, so I drew a picture of the International Space Station. We even got to see the real International Space Station up in the sky one night - it was flying past so fast and I was the first one to find it.

Plus of course I still love drawing transformers, and this is one which turns into a fier (fire) truck.

As well as drawing, I'm also still writing stories. This is a short one but a scary one, about a vampire spider...

The coronavirus is still out there in the world, so it looks like we're going to be stuck at home for a few more weeks yet. If it goes on too long I'm going to run out of things to draw and write about!

The Lockdown Lowdown

Sharing rooms and space

It's been three weeks now since we started the lockdown at home because of the coronavirus. Guess they didn't find a cure for it overnight then. So there's still no school for me, no daycare for William, no driving to work for Mum and Dad...

And no separate bedrooms for William and me. We've been sharing our room for weeks now, but most of the time it's going well. It's nice to be able to have a chat as soon as we wake up, and sometimes I get to read to William before we go to bed at night (if we haven't been naughty and told off the night before).

More days at home means more time for getting creative. Today I asked Dad what he wanted me to draw and he said "pirates", so here's my drawing of a pirate on a desert island with his pirate ship floating in the sea nearby (ignore the pencil marks by the mast, I made a bit of a mistake there).

I also did this drawing of a house in the rain, and of course just about every day I draw a picture of a transformer. This is a bad guy transformer I drew for Dad (you can tell because it says "to mikeile" at the top), which transforms from a robot into a somearing (submarine).

Some people said they liked the last stories I wrote but that they were a bit scary, so this time I wrote a story about another of my favourite things: space. Here's me reading my space story about the end of the world.

What's going to happen next? When will schools go back? Will the lockdown finish before William's birthday so we can have a proper party for him? Nobody knows, but as long as I have my colouring pens, pads and paper (plus plenty of food) I'll be just fine.