That’s right, even when we are not at an arena it is still all about the skating. This time the girls found a box and Katrine thought that we could make it into an ice rink. With a little bit of creativity and a lot of glue, the Attwood Arena was born. Complete with an audience calling out cheers, tickets and medals.
Now it was time for the gala. Both girls got in on the fun by breaking out every single toy that has skates….and a walrus! Who knew that stuffed animals had such awesome skating moves? The Barbie was apparently the headliner. I must admit that her spiral was not half bad.
‘Skatey Bear’ shows off her jumps, ‘Skatey Girl’ demonstrates the ice splits move (also known as the cold bum move), “Ice Angel/Barbie’ breaks out her spiral while Walrus sits (totally different from the cold bum move due to the mass quantities of blubber involved).Now that the show was done it was time to increase the role which our arena was to play within the toy community of our household through lessons from our resident coach….Barbie! (She really is a woman of many talents. Never seen a coach whose skates fall off quite as easily though.) The arena has been used by all of the Calico Critters, who interestingly enough can apparently skate in bare feet! Barbie has also coached a sheep and Katrine’s fashion doll Lily.
Big Sister Sheep is working on push together while Lily is more advanced working on a toe loop as being demonstrated by her coach.