Oh yeah. Can't forget the glitter. The kids have been getting cards at school from their friends. Yesterday, they both came home with a burning desire to make some too. Now this is fine and dandy, and yay for hand-made snail mail. However, the school has this quirky little rule that mandates that any card distributed in school must be made available to each child in the class.
You want to send out cards? All twenty one kids get one. It's all or nothing, baby.
I told Jordan this; and warned him that this would involve a lot of time.
And a lot of glitter.
They got right down to it.
Thank God for Mina. She's a pragmatist. She decided she only wanted to make cards for her two teachers instead.
With bunny ears.
Glittering went on throughout dinner prep time and plating. In between cutting, roasting and steaming, I laid each hand-made card on the art table to dry. And wiped glitter off of every surface that sparkled. Clean as you go, I learned a long time ago.
The best part? He forgot to bring the cards to school today.
Today, they came home and decided they wanted MORE. More crafts.
"Mommy, where's the glitter?" Mina asked.
Uh.. no.
Not after I spent a good chunk of the evening cleaning up, sweeping and mopping the floor. Sorry. Even I have my crafting limits.
"Let's do something else," I suggested. "Let's make snowflakes!"
I showed Jordan the basic folding strategy, and he was off.
Yep, he sure was.
We began hanging some across the doorway entrance to the kitchen. It's a good thing none of us are that tall.
It's an easy project. Here's a simple tutorial: education.com
3 comments:
Both kids made very cute cards. I can't even imagine how much patience it required from Jordan.
Another good suggestion would be using coffee filters to make the snowflakes. You can paint them or use the glitter again :).
This year I discovered air dry clay (it only took me 5 years). We've been making hundreds of ornaments, beads and then painting them. Jordan and Mina would love this project.
They are such good kids. We have the "all or nothing' rule here too. We're past the excruciatingly slow writing phase now that the little one is 6 but 20-odd kids is a lot of effort.
Our craft (aka you guys stay busy while I do stuff) was cutting out pictures from last years Christmas cards and making a collage of Christmas cheer. Not very imaginative but it keeps them busy. There are shell angels that you guys could do since you have access to the beach . We learned how to do them in Mystic.
In the summer we're big stone painters. (Eventually they'll see through me)
Loved all the holiday and school posts! The video's are great.
I think Jordan's hula hoop practice paid off :) Mina's expressions are priceless. The holidays don't seem the same without you guys.:( Did Jordan get to give out his cards? He did an amazing job.
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