I'm not really a very crafty or artistic person. I'm horrible about doing art projects with the kids. I know I mentioned this before, in fact, I think it was about a year ago when I did another project with the kids which consisted of melting broken crayons together. This time around I decided to work with the kids on creating a village using boxes from our recycling bin.
After collecting the right sized boxes and containers, I bought a piece of poster board to use as a base. On a snowy Saturday morning, I gathered the necessary supplies and the girls. It took me a few minutes to convince the girls (i.e. snapping at them) to not touch anything until we figured out how we wanted our village to look. Once we got the general pattern sorted out, Allison and Mia had a wonderful time cutting, gluing, drawing, and putting stickers on our buildings. It was a good practice lesson for me to keep my patience and a good lesson for the girls to work together as a team to accomplish a single goal.
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