The craft I chose for today was to lace a paper plate snowman . I started out intending to do this one just as the directions stated but my hole punch had different plans. The spring on it was broken so I would have to pry it open after each and every punch and, well, after doing 4 plates, I just wasn't into doing 4 more so I modified the project.
We turned our lacing plates into frames for cotton ball snowmen. Each kid got a plate and some yarn and laced the edges. The two 3 year olds (our neighbor boy was over too) liked doing the lacing but needed help or they'd get mixed up. They did enjoy saying "Up....down....up....down...." while trying to keep with the pattern though.
(See his little tongue sticking out while he concentrates?? Too cute!!)
The 5 year old did better independently, but his ended up being laced around the edges which he deemed "better" so he kept them that way.
After the plates were all laced up, we added cotton ball snowmen. The 20 year old, who loves all things craft, decided to join in at this point and got super creative with pipe cleaner scarves, hats and trees and tooth pick arms. The toddlers enjoyed picking out what to add to their snowmen (my 3 year old insisted on a "Santa hat!") and the 5 and 9 year old really got into making their scene complete.
Not sure if we'll do this project again next year, but all in all, a fun way to spend some time this afternoon.
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