Arts and Crafts

Maddie has been very interested in painting, using pipe cleaners and especially cutting with her saftey scissors. She often asks to paint first thing in the morning and I have to hold her off until I can get the table cleared off and free of things that don't need to be painted. On Sunday, she woke up and asked to paint a picture for Kyle, her favorite cousin who is 13 and was actually very gracious when he received his masterpiece.

Kalee of course wanted in on the action and got more paint on her face and inside her mouth than the paper but she had fun. I don't think paint is one of her favorite foods for now...

Maddie also was very proud of her first pair of safety scissors that were one whole dollar at Dollar General. I let her pay for them and she didn't take her hands off of them for the next 6 hours. We even had a little wrestling match when she wanted to take them to bed with her. She skipped lunch to "cut coupons" and it is so fun to watch her concentrate so hard. Of course, it was not so fun cleaning up the millions of tiny pieces of paper that she left behind, but it was a learning experience too!