I acclimated to adulation backing days. But today, afterwards acquainted the acquisition storm clouds, I was not attractive advanced to spending the day coiled in my armchair account a book. Those canicule are continued gone. This brewing storm had me afraid that there was addition storm coming: that of a apathetic toddler ashore central on a backing day. Today, I determined, would be the absolute day to get some toddler crafting activity on. So I alleged one of my best accompany who has a babe a few months adolescent than Fischer and assertive her to accompany in on our rainy-day fun (maintaining acumen on a backing day generally requires the aggregation of addition adult, I’ve found).
Crafting With Your Toddler
What I adulation best about toddler ability time is that things don’t consistently assume to go to plan. The Pinterest fails are a-plenty. But, honestly, that’s what makes it so fun. Acceptance your toddler to get blowzy and accept a acoustic acquaintance is apparently the highlight of his week! And crafting with a acquaintance makes the bloopers alike added fun to beam about later.
When our accompany arrived, we spent a few account absolution the kids assignment on “sharing” while we bent up on activity and again set to assignment advancing for our crafting day. We put the kiddos in diapers, covered the attic in artificial and cardboard accoutrements (I ask for cardboard accoutrements sometimes for this EXACT reason) and laid our abstracts out. We were ready.
Handprint Cardboard Ties
On this accurate day, I capital the kids to accomplish cardboard ties for our husbands to “wear” proudly on Father’s day. The kids sat bottomward to get to assignment and as usual, not aggregate went to plan. What was meant to be a aerial alternation of handprints on the tie became a anointed mess! Instead of starting over, we said, “Well, it’s absolutely aloof a representation of area my kid is at this point!” While the ties may not accept been the picture-of-perfection that we saw on a Pinterest board, it was different and fun and that’s abuse able-bodied enough.
Both kids concluded up with acrylic all over themselves. So we absitively to accomplish the best of the warm, backing afternoon and ablution them off on the balustrade with an old watering can! The kids had a bang accepting “sprinkled!” If alone pictures could abduction squeals.
Handprint Baseball
One of my admired toddler crafts we approved was a little handprint on a baseball. Fischer’s face LIT UP back he saw the baseball back he LOVES to bandy annihilation annular (I appear to anticipate the kid was built-in to angle a baseball). It was abundant easier than I anticipation to get the best absolute little duke print. I aloof apperceive this ability will get added than the binding action from daddy.
Handprint Photo Canvas
This was additionally an accessible and ambrosial handprint craft. We begin account anatomy canvases at the bounded ability store. The kids had a bang accoutrement the canvases with bright handprints. Afterwards they dried, we put a photo of the corresponding kiddo in the frame. They angry out so cute!
While I may accept started the backing day with some all-overs and apprehension, our ad-lib ability day angry out way bigger than I could accept imagined. Sure, the abode looked like a brace of assuming toddlers (a tornado) had been through it, but we fabricated some alarming memories and the kids had a blast. Bonus: Fischer took a three-hour nap afterward!
For added toddler crafting ideas, analysis out this board on Pinterest!
