Competition ends Monday 14th November at 5pm GMT.

The Bits and Bobs you will need:

1. The Willow owl template from The Land of Me (above)
2. Leaves in all shades of autumn (brown, rust, yellow)
3. A tube o’ glue (I used UHU)
4. Yellow and brown felt
5. Child friendly scissors
6. A nice, sharp, pencil
7. A sheet of card
8. Ribbon/elastic/string to attach the mask to a little person’s head!

Step 1 – Snip, snip, snip
Click on the template above, print it out on some card (not too thick mind) and then cut out Willow’s face and plume ONLY. Stick them together. You need to make the holes for the string/elastic now! So, mums and dads, gently make a hole where indicated on the template and secure your string.

Step 2 – Let’s get leafy
This is where the fun starts! Take your leaves and start glueing them to the card. I started with the plume and worked down. Ripping the leaves instead of cutting them to size looks nicer as you get a more natural, ragged edge. Contine to do this until the card is covered.

Step 3 – Beaky beaky
Now cut out the beak from the template. Glue some brown felt to this small piece of card and then stick the tabs to the back of the mask. Now you should see your Willow coming to life!

Step 4 – Eye, eye
Cut out Willow’s eye shapes from your yellow felt. Place on the mask then gently feel where the hole is and draw a small circle on the felt. Cut out these little holes and then stick to the mask.

Step 5 – Eh Voila!
You now have a canny owl mask that will be the envy of any Halloween party!

Everyone seems to love a crazy deal these days, right? So, seeing as Halloween is hot on our heels we’ve decided to give you all a little…treat. For the next week we’re offering a downright wicked 50% off The Land of Me. That means you can snag the DVD-ROM for £12.97 (normally £24.95) + P&P, or download for only £9.97 (normally £19.95). Nuts right?

So, if you know of any littl’uns in need of some adventure and fun head over to our shop and enter the code happyhalloween into the discount field at checkout.

Offer ends midnight GMT on 4th November 2011 and only applies to the Family edition.

In the meantime feel free to send some good luck vibes our way

The following links each represent a blog post created over the course of the project with feedback and opinions from teachers and parents. The project was run by the Consolarium, a team at Education Scotland dedicated to exploring the use of games and technology to enrich and support learning.

1. Early feedback from teachers in Dundee
2. The project kicks off in Argyll & Bute
3. The journey begins
4. Building dens in Templeton Woods
5. Encouraging Outdoor Adventure
6. Planning for good learning
7. A visit from the King of The Land of Me
8. What the parents said
9. Gleeful Children lost in learning

Now that the pilot project has come to a close we’d like to say a big thank you to Derek Robertson at the Consolarium, the Local Authority representatives and everyone involved for all your energy and enthusiasm. What all the teachers, parents and children have done with The Land of Me is breath-taking, inspirational and humbling.

We were digging through some old artwork and stumbled across this stunning sketch of Eric the raccoon as a baby, by the very talented Eric Lerner. It gives me the impression of a faint memory, perhaps a tiny piece of Eric’s origin story. How did he end up with Granny Olive, an old turtle? Who knows?

We’ve established a brand shining new Made in Me website. Don’t worry, The Land of Me blog isn’t going anywhere, it’s just going to focus exclusively on news, views, and other titbits from The Land of Me. With Me Books, our picture book app, now launched as well as other projects on the boil, we thought it best to keep all of our general Made in Me studio news and gossip on the new site.

So without further waffle, we present the new Made in Me site. Enjoy!

1. Wallpaper
This will set your antennas a-twitching readers. Check out this wonderfully retro robot wallpaper. Available in a few different colour palettes, this would go down a storm in a little ones bedroom. It’s pretty toppy for a single roll, so maybe better to only cover one wall. Probably best, otherwise your wee one might feel as if they’d woken up in an episode of Robot Wars every morning. And no one wants that. Check out designer Aimee Wilder’s site for more details.

2. Storage boxes
‘Robots in disguise’! Errr or not, more like ‘storage boxes in disguise!’ Hmm not quite as catchy but you get the gist. These are really nifty. Not only are they incredibly handy for keeping things in they also look super slick AND you can literally create your own robot! Fun times people, fun robo times. Yes indeed. The whizz kid behind this stroke of clever is the brilliantly named Guus Oosterbaan. You can get your hands on these mighty fine boxes here.

3. Stencils
Stencils are another one. They will always be cool. Beautiful things happen when the worlds of stencils and robots collide. Discover a smorgasbord of antennae, buttons, nuts and bolts and other robotic goodies so you can create a whole gaggle of robots. Make up stories, rustle up a comic strip or give the guys at Dr. Who some new ideas for a baddy. Snap one up here.

4. Build-a-robot
Now this get-up is emitting fun factor rays all over the shop. Beautifully crafted wooden pieces of android for your nippers to fit together to create their very own pet robot. Can you have a pet robot? I think so. Plan always dish out the best in wooden toys ensuring they are jam-packed with fun and learning too. There is something totally charming and topsy-turvy about a wooden robot and I, for one, am a whopping fan.

5. Cup Cake Mould
‘I command you to eat the contents of my head or you will be exterminated!’ If only you could hear me doing my best robot voice that first sentence would have been funny. These cupcake moulds are likely to make you bust out your best robo-dance. Fill them with your best cupcake mix, stick them in the oven and BOOM! A lovely, tasty army of robo-cakes. Yumbots by name. Yumbots by nature. Yum yum. Yum. Yum. Snag them here.