Crafty

As I've said before, I subscribe to a LOT of blogs. Some of these blogs are written by SAHMs that do lots of different arts and crafts with their kids. I always think that it looks like a lot of fun, but wondered if Charlotte was really old enough to partake in such an activity.

Friday afternoon it rained. Charlotte decided that this would be a great day to take a 45 minute nap rather than the normal 2-2.5 hour nap. So, we went over to Michael's and got the necessary materials to do a craft. I saw some spiders on a blog that I thought would be fun to do.

Now, I know all of the early childhood education people who read this blog will collectively groan when they see what these spiders look like. In hindsight it was probably a little too complicated for a 20 month old. But, I thought they were cute and I wanted to give them a shot with Charlotte - I knew that I'd be doing most of the work, but thought that she might get into gluing eyes, putting stickers on, etc.

She did like to glue the eyes on - but then she liked to rip them off. She kinda got interested in gluing the legs on - but then she liked pulling them off. She didn't put a single sticker on them. But, we were able to finish two of them - and that's something. Maybe next time I'll just try some simple finger painting.