Holidays crafts! They sound so fun. They are supposed to create memories and foster warm fuzzies while working together on a project. Well, I always dreamed of doing fun holiday crafts with my kids and having them turn out just perfect. I think we did create memories....not sure about the warm fuzzies.
The first project we tried to make was the simple candy trees on Styrofoam cones. Directions sounded pretty easy. I bought the candy gumdrops and glue guns to hot glue the candy to the Styrofoam and it would turn out looking like a cute candy tree! Easy right? WEll...right off Erica burned herself with some melted glue that landed on her hand. We had to stop and run cold water on it and apply an ice pack. So...she decided to just watch. Keith worked on his tree until it was about halfway thru and then he was finished. I was forced to finish out the 3 cones.....I had one for Keith Erica and me. As I was finishing this project, I was thinking about the next year's one and how no hot glue would be involved.
The next project we tried was a Ginger bread house. It was a kit and it said it had everything you needed to make this cute house. We worked and worked on the house and I let each one of them decorate one side of the house. Looked like it was going pretty well. We were having fun and feeling pretty good about it. Our self esteem was definitely higher than last years flop. WE finished....made pictures...and left it to dry overnight.
Next morning.....every bit of the roof icing that was supposed to be snow has drained off to create snow like icing mounds and a snow empty roof. Oh well.....it was still standing and we just told people that the house experience a bad weather night.
The next year our project was baking and decorating cookies. This was our thing! It was the first project that we worked on and it really turned out good. Plus....we ate samples along the way. So....cookies looked like cookies and were beautiful masterpieces. Finally, we found out "thing" that we could do together as a family. But then....you have to figure out how to eat them or give them away.
To this day, I try to do a cookie baking and decorating time with whoever will come. Sometimes we have done a girls day with the girls.. One year we did it with everybody, men included. This year, Sammy was our bonding victim.....
So kudos to all of you who can create crafts that look like Martha Stewart produced.....we will stick to our strengths: baking/creating/decorating/ eating.
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