More Crafty Time

We're in love with foam art.  I think I've mentioned that?  It's cheap, it's easy to clean up, and it occupies little minds for quite a few minutes at a time.  It's also great for their small motor development (I like to think!!!).  They can get the backs off the little shapes, use tooth picks to get the pieces separated, and then create some indent pointillism art on their shapes.  It's all good.

We've also been enjoying quite a bit of beading work.  Pipe cleaners and pony beads = beautiful ornaments for our Valentine's Day tree.  I'll have to put a poster of this lovely beyond compare (it's tinsel!  it's pink!  it has lights!) tree when we have it completely decked out.  Every day or 2 the kids are ready to make more beaded hearts for it.  Whatever will we do when it's time to move on to the next holiday?  Beaded shamrocks might be beyond my skills... !  On a (slightly) more serious note, however, we are having a lot of fun!  This is one of the first crafty type projects that Jake seems quite taken with.  He loves stringing beads, and he's pretty fast at it too!