Category: creativity

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Gooey Glue

As I was planning my writing for today, I was going to show you the cute craft we made for Christmas presents. But then I realized that the person who is going to receive those presents just might read my blog! So you’ll have to wait until later to see that cute craft.

Here’s another craft idea. Emmy loves to use glue, so I cut up some pictures out of leftover wrapping paper. I love the idea of using a glue stick since it’s less messy, but then bits of paper tend to fall off the craft once it dries. So I let the girls use school glue even though it squishes and oozes. (That makes it more fun than using a glue stick, too…for the girls, anyway!)

Here are the results of Emmy’s glue project. She even added a nice puddle of glue on the left side for special effect!

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Brad Pitt Has Nothin’ on This

Lily has a love affair with tape. She loves its versatility, its usefulness, its, its…well, its stickiness. She tapes together paper rings, paper bracelets and paper necklaces. She designs cards and books. She makes signs. Oh, boy, does she ever make signs. And then she tapes them all over the house. I know I should not allow this. My mother would have never allowed tape on her walls. She would have never allowed me to have tape, period. I must be a pushover.

These are little “BOO” signs for Halloween.

And here’s a little firetruck she drew after seeing a firetruck at preschool.

I have no idea what this is a sign for. It’s by the kitchen door…does that shed any light?


She drew four of these signs. Just guess what they mean. There’s this one:

And this one:

And yet another one:

You get the idea. She is banning Emmy from the rooms these signs are posted in! I think Emmy is banned from every room except her own bedroom. Lily isn’t quite the model big sister.

So there you have it; Lily’s love affair with tape. Don’t get me started on her infatuation with scissors!