Easter Craft Day

While Liam slept off yesterday's trauma, Julia and I had a craft morning. Matt & Julia are having a father/daughter Easter away with his family at Wivenhoe Dam (we've gone the last two years and it's so much fun, but we camp out and I wasn't game to try and be up and down with Liam all night in a tent). Matt's cousins have kids who are between 4 and 10 years old, and they just adore Julia, so they're going to have a lot of fun. Because they're going away, though, I wanted to do something for Easter with Julia beforehand.

She usually won't sit at the table for more than 15 minutes (if that), but all through breakfast I had been telling her we would do Easter crafts after, so she sat so patiently, finished her breakfast, and then I pulled out our art supply box and spread the table with pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks, foam cutouts, pompoms, paper, and glitter glue. We had such a great time together!

It was precious watching her so carefully spreading glue on the paper and then trying to place little cutouts and pompoms on the paper (all with fingers sticky from the glue....very little of that made it to the paper despite her care!).

We made a little baby chick (one of those pictures is Julia teaching the chicken how to fly).





Then we made an Easter bunny hat.




This picture is her showing on the table how the bunny hops.


We also made a picture frame (for if I ever actually print out some photos!) and a card.