Pine cone mania

It's craft time! For this midwinter holiday we're focused on making some crafts. These mostly involve pine cones, acorns and tons of glitter glue. I am in charge of gathering supplies and supervising the glue use. A-chan is in charge of using the glue on everything except for herself or the cats or the furniture. Ketu is in charge of using the hot glue gun to attach ribbons with which to hang the decorated stuff on trees.

It's been a lot of fun! I'm not a very creative person when it comes to crafts like this so it's a huge new project to find things that a toddler can create and enjoy making. There have been a few incidents of innappropriate glitter application but not many. And A-chan adores being able to make things for her friends and loved ones. She'll pick out a special one for each person. Every day she wants to go gather more pine cones, lol. Unfortunately we ran out of acorns fairly quickly since the deer and squirrels eat them very fast! We had had a pile of them on our front porch that A-chan has been collecting since summer and they've all been glitterized now.

Making crafts for christmas decorations is like my penultimate wonderful thing to do as a mom, that I've always wanted to do! Now it's time for creative toddler cookie making next week...