I'm rather bad about doing craft projects with the kids; however, I try not to feel too guilty about it since they do projects at daycare (and we pay enough for those projects). A couple of weeks ago the girls' daycare was closed for staff training so I took the day off. I figured I should do something fun with them, so I decided to do a craft project. We had a ton of broken crayons so I thought that we could make new crayons out of them. I sat down with the kids and explained exactly what we were doing. Allison and Amelia were very excited and amazed we were doing a craft project. Mia kept asking "why are we doing a craft project Mom? "
The first step was to take the wrappers off the broken crayons. I figured this would be the easiest part since at one point in time, we had to take the crayons away from Amelia because she kept taking the papers off. Thirty minutes later, the kids were off playing and I was still trying to take those darn wrappers off. When I finally got them all off, the girls came back to help me put the cut pieces of crayons into the muffin pans and patiently waited as they melted. They were very excited to show their Dad their new creations that night.
We also made homemade pretzels that afternoon or rather, homemade weapons made from dough, as they seemed to weigh about 20 lbs each. Next time, I need to use less dough and roll them out thinner. Oh well, like I said, I don't do too many craft projects.
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It looks like the girls had a good time and are very proud of their craft. Good job Mom.
Love, Nana
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