What fun is Christmas decorating if you don't get the tiny children involved, huh? Last week I decided that a nice paper chain was a perfect project for Abbey. Lots of chances to help, and nothing too complicated. Sounds like a toddler craft dream!
We started out by decorating some paper:
A little marker...
A little glitter...
A little more glitter! Who doesn't love more glitter??
Then we took a nap-time break. Well, Abbey did anyway. I like projects like this that can be split up, because it gives me some good "first a nap, then ______" motivation. It also gave me a chance to do the next step of the project without Abbey losing interest.
While she was sleeping, I cut the paper into strips using my paper cutter (God bless that thing!)
Note #1: Construction paper divides evenly into 1 1/2 inch strips
Note #2: Elmers glue sticks (the purple ones) aren't very good at holding down glitter...just sayin.
After nap time, we started putting our chain together:
Glue...
Pinch...
Glue...pinch...glue...pinch...glue...pinch...
This is a great time to work on things like color recognition, and patterns.
So proud!
It looked a bit lonely at first...
But then Noni got out the Christmas decorations:
Much better! If you can believe it, this is only about a third of what will be going up there!
Someday I'll have a collection like that...
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