Crafting

Anna had a lovely little six year old girlie birthday party Wednesday.  The girls dressed up, wore flower leis, played with balloons, and skipped around the house.

This crafting kit shown above was one of her presents.  We started on it today.  Let me just say a few things here.  

#1.  I am not a crafty person.   I took the requisite home economics class in seventh grade, butchered a wrap around skirt, and haven't touched a sewing machine since.   I did three teeny tiny cross stitch Christmas ornaments twenty years ago, had to redo countless stitches,  and will never cross stitch again.  I struggled with handwriting and coloring through elementary school--gasp! Basically, my strong points do not include precision and repetition of small movements. 

#2.  The contents of this craft kit for my six year old:  one wooden basket, three small tubs of paint, one paint brush, one bundle of rafia, three styrofoam eggs, hundreds of dark green, light green, red, purple, and silver sequins, and thousands upon thousands of tiny pins.  

Here's a fun challenge:  Take a look at the picture above and guess which egg is Anna's, Justin's and mine.  Justin tried to encourage me when I took a break with, "That's pretty good for a half an hour's work, Mom."  He wasn't even trying to be sarcastic, and  yes, that is close to a half an hour's work.  

Oh, and the head of the pin is smaller than the sequin holes, so they fall off if you move the egg. And you move the egg pretty often.  

The kids did enjoy painting the basket.  And I need to think of something else (quickly) that would look cute nestled in the rafia that doesn't involve me sticking pins in styrofoam eggs for the next few days.