Chloe loves to craft. She loves to paint/cut paper/draw/tape things together/hang stuff from string/color/make cards… you name a craft and she loves it. Her favorite items to receive these days are office supplies. I vividly recall loving getting office items too. Actually, come to think of it, I STILL love getting a nice pen or a fresh pad of paper or even posty notes. So, I guess it’s no surprise that she loves it too.
These days her other obsession has branched into giving gifts. It really hit after Christmas and all the gift giving we did then. So she’ll go around the house and gather items and wrap them and then give them to us. The funny part is that she’ll pick items that are already ours–so she knows that we’ll be excited about them when we open it. For example she wrapped up Josiah his own toy sword–so when he opened it he was like “YEAH! I love this toy sword!” 🙂
So, after discussing with her that she doesn’t need to just re-gift us our own things and that a homemade craft is just as great, she now has been making us crafts daily. Yesterday she made us all puzzles out of pictures. She also made us invitations to come to her party in her room and hung decorations. The day before that she wrote a card to every family member. And then there was the “big secret craft project” that was a surprise. She worked on it all Saturday afternoon and then revealed it to us. Want to see it? Of course you do!
I’m not sure what it is.. but it’s large and has lot of glitter glue and drawing and tape on it. And she was very excited to give it to us. So we posed for a picture to remember it. 🙂
It is lovely and looks like it took a lot of time to do. Too big for the fridge, though, so where will you put it?
That is the question of the hour… plus the tape didn’t really hold it together, so it’s pretty much falling apart. 🙂 We might have to hang it in pieces.
She certainly has been busy! Love her enthusiasm. Need to get her into Crafts Direct or Michaels.