get out the glitter, the paints and the glue?
Thing 3 licked the paintbrush, then ate the clay,
Why didn't I just get their toys out for play?
Paint water on the floor, handprints on the chairs,
And a nice trail of glitter right up the stairs.
We made lots of stuff, had lots of fun,
I shan't lie though, I was quite relieved once we'd done.
The Things slept soundly the whole night though,
So I guess for art & craft, it's get set go!
By Things' mum, age unknown
I decided to have a crafts day with the Things. We had boxes of craft projects, that had been received at Christmas, to work our way through and we had lots of paint and glitter.
I let the Things choose what they wanted to do first; clay aliens. They rolled and squished the coloured clay, they fought over the coloured clay, Thing 3 ate the coloured clay .... But most importantly, they had fun and we did end up with some quite impressive clay aliens at the end of it. And Thing 3 is still with us two days later, so I'm now convinced that the clay was non-toxic.
Before I'd even cleared away the remnants of clay from the table, Three Things were excitedly tearing into more boxes of projects. We had scraper board dinosaurs to decorate .... With only the one scraper in the box, which, being the largest thing, Thing 1 bagsied first..... Thing 2 got the tube of glitter glue.... Thing 3 ran off with the ribbons ....
All the while Thing 1 used the scraper, Thing 2 wailed that she needed the scraper. Then they traded. All the while Thing 1 used the glitter glue, Thing 2 wailed that she needed the glitter glue. Googley eyes were stuck on with haste, one unfortunate dinosaur ended up with his eye stuck on his bottom, and I made the Things take a snack break. Cookies and juice all round. And I breathed.
Before you could even say the words; 'cookies and juice', Those three things were ready to go again. Thing 3 had rejoined us, bouncing up and down on a chair... Incidentally, I never did find those ribbons she ran off with.
It was with unanimous Thing 'yays' rather than 'nays' that I was summoned to get paints and canvas out for them. All armed with a canvas, a paintbrush and a cup of water ... I rather reluctantly placed a palette of various hues of paint in front of them.
All started well. Thing 3 cleverly following the other twos lead. Gently dipping her paintbrush into the paint, then splatting it onto the canvas.... Then she accidentally caught her fingers in the paint, quickly realised paint could be transferred at greater speed from palette to painting by hand and so she proceeded to splat her hands into the paints and then smack them onto the canvas with great delight, evident in her slightly manic giggles. This also ended up turning the carefully separated array of colours into a brownish-grey sludge-like mush of paint. And then she decided to taste it. A great big glob of the mucky looking paint was put, fistful, into Thing 3's mouth.... I moved in slow motion, the word 'no' emitted in a deep unrecognisable elongated 'noooooooooooooooo'. I was too late... It had been devoured. I'm pleased to confirm that this paint must also be non-toxic!
Paints cleared up and time to make snow globes. We made clay figures and placed them on the domes base. I made up Thing 3's as she was too busy trying to eat yet more clay. We added the glitter, things 1 & 2 were insistent in doing their own, adamant about adding too much glitter and then glowing with pride at the fact they could no longer see their clay model inside once it was complete for the mass amounts of glitter. Apparently that was their intention.
We had one more make for the day. To paint a teaset that thing 2 had received for Christmas. Thing 2 spent ages neatly painting the pieces she had, thing 1 announced he was painting all his pieces entirely green. And then proceeded to do so. Thing 2 threw paint water all over the floor (accidentally, of course) and Thing 3 attempted to eat a teacup. I was glad when we finished. I packed everything away and then took Things 2 & 3 out for a walk and some fresh air.
They went to sleep early and slept through the night (almost), so I guess that next school holidays we will be having another craft day .... I must be mad .... But spending a day with The Three Things would probably cause even the most hardened individual to lose a little bit of their sanity, so it's to be expected. At the end of the day, we had lots of fun, those Three Things and I... So what's a few more grey hairs compared to that feeling?
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