Sometimes the spam I get is really weird. Today I got one for a “Photography class for Dentists” – it’s limited to 20 spaces. Well, I guess everyone should learn how to take a picture 🙂
Author: marga (Page 53 of 158)
I learned this “craft” from our daycare provider which had Camila do it when she was quite young (2?). All you need is some paint (we used a combination of acrylic and whatever paint you use to paint wood, what we had at home) and a rock. Fortunately, the lady who used to live in our house until she died (at 95!) was a huge rock collector (mind you, not “pretty” rocks, just random rocks she gathered in the California desserts), so we have quite a few rocks around. You can paint whichever designs you want on the rocks, both girls chose to do ladybugs, but later Camila did a bumble bee as well. Both girls had a great time doing it, and after they’re done I can put the rocks where they were before in the garden 🙂
Mika’s ladybug is the one above and Camila’s, of course, is the one below 🙂
I bought the Horton Hears a Who! – You to the Rescue!
We haven’t played the game with Camila yet, but I anticipate that she may have less fun than Mika. At 4 1/2 years old she’s probably not as deft as her sister, and gets frustrated easily if she can’t do something well (in that she is like her sister). Still, we will try 🙂
I was just thinking that all the emphasis on crafts I’ve had for the last few weeks, all the kits I’ve bought the kits and the different crafts I’ve done with them, may lead some people to believe that I am crafty. Nothing could be further from the truth. When I was a kid, my worst subject in school was Drawing, to the point that even today I draw like a five year old. My second worst subject in school was Actividades Prácticas, “practical activities”, which could be described as “crafts”. I can’t tell you how bad I was at it. With the exception of a collage of Nefertiti that I made in 7th grade and a clay figurine of “the Devil as a serpent in Paradise”, I was never able to do anything good. Even the devil figurine came about because I was trying to make a face and what turned out look so gaunt that it could be the devil – so I made it horns and, because I knew that making a body was beyond me, I made a serpent shape to which I stuck the head. My art teacher actually liked it 🙂
But anyway, the point is that I suck at crafts but the kits I’ve bought are for little kids and doing what a 7-year old is expected to be able to do is not that hard. And crafts gives me something to do with the kids that is not overwhelmingly boring. But lord, I’m definitely not crafty.
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