Today’s project is a good example of why you need to flexible when planning kids’ crafts. The plan was tissue paper flowers: I thought they would be pretty easy, and sort of an instant-gratification thing. But they were completely beyond Anna’s abilities, and Carolyn didn’t like how hers turned out compared the ones I made [...]
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Our birdhouses, according to Anna, needed birdies. So I bought a big bag of assorted pompoms and pulled out a few other supplies: A little glue here, a little cutting there… …and we had fuzzy little googly-eyed birds! And then we made some name caterpillars because gluing pompoms is kind of addictive. After that, the [...]
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This week’s theme is “In the Garden”. I spotted these cute little wooden birdhouses (I keep wanting to call them “dollhouses”!) at JoAnn’s for $1 apiece the other day and thought it might be fun to paint them. Conveniently enough, they were located right next to a display of Delta Soy Paint. I let the [...]
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