Planned activities

Looking through my posts on FaceBook and my blog posts, I give the impression that I'm this uber-organized mom who does all these planned activities and crafts with my kids, but that is not the case. However, Monday through Friday, I try to get the kids out of the house (music class, the creche, Tons of Fun, the park, an errand) if possible and then do a craft or activity in the afternoon.  And if we don't get out in the mornings, I like to sit down and play with them for a while, though not the whole morning. LOL. The reason I do this is because otherwise, none of us would survive three-year-olds who were bored.

We had a birthday party to attend in the morning, but before that, we sat down and had a tea party with our stuffed animals.

This afternoon we tried q-tip painting a Christmas Tree outline

Gordon kept all his dots to one side of the tree.

At first, Adele kept all her paint within the lines, but eventually found that boring. 

The trees are currently drying and tomorrow we'll decorate them. I haven't decided how, yet.

After the project, comes free-painting time. They enjoy painting their hands and making handprints. 

Gordon also like fingerprint painting and making a layered handprint.

Walt also did a lot of experimenting with the q-tip, like putting paint on the ends, then rolling the q-tip on the paper. Overall, we had fun.