Today, I faced the plain facts. I needed to find something for at least my kids to do. I pulled out a packet that I had gotten from a workshop one of the Kindergarten teachers did for the parents last year. It had a bean game. You slide a bean onto a triangle divided into sections numbered 1-10. Whichever number it lands on, you get that many beans. Each person took 3 turns, to see who could get the most beans. This lasted for a while with Aiden, Gray, and I. Gray won everytime, his two was worth like 20 beans apparently.
Then we decided to make pictures with the beans. Gray, not really interested, so here's what he and Miss Mae did:
NO, those aren't beans. It's those puffed rice snacks.
Can you guess what each picture is? I started with these:
Aiden thought of the next two:
After we were done, Aiden wanted to glue them onto paper. Ugh, glue. But he reeeally wanted to do it so he could give a picture to his dad. So against my better judgment, I broke out the construction paper and glue. We would have plenty of time to get it done before the other kids got here.
BUZZZ! WRONG-O! The kids arrived 20 minutes earlier than I'd been told. And they all wanted to help. Yay! And then they wanted to do their own pictures. YAY! Translation: gluey table, gluey fingers, gluey beany mess.
But I guess they had fun and that's all that matters, right?
RIGHT?!
Right.
It kept them entertained for about and hour.
4 comments:
Very creative. I love the pictures made out of beans. But I am with you I HATE cleaning up big messes.
All I can say is....UGH!!!
See you are a good mom and a good sitter cause as soon as messes started in my house, that would have been a wrap on the fun. Looks like you took Bret's advice on the crafts after all!
You're quite the woman. The cactus is my favorite. Louvre worthy. . . I'm sure of it. It would look fab next to the Mona Lisa
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