Craft day with Vivi and the FarmGrands

It's Wednesday, Vivi and two FarmGrands arrive for our first Craft Day.

It's Wednesday, the day I hang out with the Farmdaughters and the FarmGrands.

Today will be Craft Day, sort of. Crafts are not my strong suit, but I contributed an idea, based on a craft our kids had brought home from school when they were young.

Cut an opening into an empty round oatmeal carton and simply paste an interesting picture into the inside.

It turns the carton into a kind of display box for whatever you choose to feature.

Vivi pasted a car picture into Meatball's oatmeal carton; he approved, and went off to the next room to play with toy cars & trucks.

Bananz eyed the princess wrapping paper, which was available, and cut a piece large enough to make a kind of curtain over the window. Then she and Meatball both moved on to painting with watercolors.

It was a modest beginning for Craft Day, but that's ok, it's Wednesday.

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Vivi said…

They had fun and both oatmeal "crafts" are still floating around here and being played with!

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