We've had some ups and downs, but mostly ups. It's been a good 11 years. God has blessed us abundantly.
In other news, today we drew "dust the baseboards" (it went ok) and "make a coconut tree".
Here is what the tree was supposed to look like (and here's the link):
Here's what ours looked like, modeled with a letter going up the tree and into the top:
Now, ours didn't look much like the example. 1) I thought I had disposable bowls, but didn't. So that changed it a bit. 2) I don't have paints and didn't want to buy them for this activity. 3) Isaac isn't great about cutting shapes out yet, so in order to have him participate the leaves had to be more simple.
All that being said, it was a good activity. However, realize that it's going to take all day...we needed a ton of glue to hold the paper towel cylinder to the cup and then it took a long time to harden. I wished I would have realized that earlier. But we read the book a few times and Isaac put the ABCs in the cup. He didn't play with it quite as much as I was expecting, although part of it could be that I got play-doh out to help hold up the tree and then he just wanted to play with that. So a better base might be useful.
2 comments:
Happy Anniversary! What a great picture of you and Ben. I love your dress and veil and your flowers are beautiful!
Annette B.
Happy anniversary! :) In case you're not using it, tacky glue works way better for kids crafts. It is not as runny and dries much faster. I highly recommend it! I think your tree is fabulous!
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