Craft is a very popular activity in this house. I only have to mention the word 'craft' and Oliver in particular starts to jump up and down shouting with excitement. These days I seem to spend a huge amount of time looking at children's craft sites looking for fun and age-appropriate things for the boys to do. Today I was especially organised and we all had a fun morning of painting, tearing coloured paper and pasting. It is really a two person job keeping two very busy little boys on track and paint-covered hands away from everything else in the room! The first task of the day was to make and paint caterpillars from egg cartons.
This was the end result.
Next we painted terracotta pots for the garden. I sealed the pots first and applied a pale blue undercoat. Oliver was utterly engrossed in painting his. Oliver's favourite colour is pink so he had no trouble in choosing his colour scheme.
He was delighted with the finished product.
Here you can see the two pots drying in the garden. I will seal them when they are dry. After that we will fill them with soil and plant seeds so that the boys have the beginning of their own little garden.
Next we set to tearing up pieces of coloured tissue paper to make stained glass windows. Last night I cut aeroplane shapes from black cardboard.
From the torn paper Inger and I assembled the 'windows' which are now hanging in our family room and make a very colourful decoration against the north-facing windows.
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