We made an aeroplane this morning. On the back of an exhausting week last week (vacation bible school), the baby getting sick and being on antibiotics, and being the most wingey baby ever, and me having a whole week to fill and it only being Tuesday, I got desperate and actually tried craft. Helped in no small way by my 4 year old, who had a pretty definite idea about what he wanted to make. My job - entertain the two year old (no mean feat), and provide materials (fairly easy given that I've been saving cardboard boxes since we arrived, and we have 45m of duct tape lying around),and cut the cardboard.
The activity took a whole hour. The black squares on the sides and fronts are windows, completely made and glued without adult supervision. The plane is big enough to give teddy and monkey a ride, what bliss!
My director of craft now has a whole heap of other ideas - trains, rocket ships, cars... I've set him to a limit of one per day. Interesting thought - I think I have to be desperate to try craft, because otherwise my perfectionism kicks in and I hesitate to start anything.
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