The past week and a half the boys and I have been working on an ongoing crafty project and two days ago we finished:
I have noticed when doing crafty projects with the boys I usually end up doing all the work and I wonder how much it actually benefited them. So this time I decided not to worry about how long it took and just do it a little bit every day for as long as their attention spans would allow.
I did most of the prep work one Sunday afternoon. I cut out colors from magazines and made little ziplock bags with each color (Jack helped a bit with that part). Then I used a bowl and cut out card board circles using cracker and cereal boxes that I had saved.
To create, the boys modge podged the circles and stuck on the clippings. Then modge podged over the top. We did about 2 circles a day. Then the last day I hole punched the tops, and Jack strung them on the string all by himself!
They helped me choose the perfect spot in their room to hang it:
Jack is especially proud of the wheels and likes to show them to me daily and name off all the colors. I actually chose this project to help Aly learn his colors and sort out yellow from orange. He's got it now :)
Five points if you can spot the difference between the color wheels in the first picture verses the second one!
3 comments:
ooh ooh! The circle by Jack's hand is not in the second one... me wonders what happened to it. What a cute project. You're such a fun mom! Hope you're enjoying your new place!
What a cute, fun, creative idea Ash! Those boys are just absolutely adorable and We loved looking at the pic of them both standing there so proud of their project! Too cute!
What a great idea-you should write a book of all the cute things you do with your boys to give others (me) ideas!
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