The Gilsons: Arts and Crafts--Jump right in

Monday, April 26, 2010

Arts and Crafts--Jump right in

Izzy LOVES arts and crafts. She randomly found this turkey MONTHS ago in one of our craft books. I finally picked up marshmallows just for this project and the gumdrops were from Alex's birthday cake but we never got around to making it. The other day Izzy said, "Mom I think we have all the supplies, can I go ahead and make this?" Sure! Jump right in. So off she went, following the directions to a T and vwallah. You see here her beautiful turkey apple.

Gotta check out the backside.

Ingredients:

Marshmallow head

Chocolate chip eyes

Spaghetti sticks to hold in feathers--although we found we needed to use a toothpick to get the original hole in there. She wouldn't stand for just using toothpicks. It all had to be edible.

Carrot shreddings for side feathers and

Gumdrops for back feathers.

We've both learned that if she wants to be able to do her arts and crafts, there's probably not much point in waiting around for mom to be ready because there's always something else that needs to get done. She just needs to jump right in and I need to remember to just let her.

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"Schoolhouses are made wrong. If they must be, they should be built in a woods pasture beside a stream, where you could wade, swim, and be comfortable in summer, and slide and skate in winter. The windows should be cut to the floor, and stand wide open, so the birds and butterflies could pass through. You ought to learn your geography by climbing a hill, walking through a valley, wading creeks, making islands in them, and promontories, capes, and peninsulas along the bank. You should do your arithmetic sitting under trees adding hickorynuts, subtracting walnuts, multiplying butternuts, and dividing hazelnuts. You could use apples for fractions, and tin cups for liquid measure. You could spell everything in sight and this would teach you the words that are really used in the world. Every single one of us could spell incompatibility, but I never heard father, or the judge, or even the Bishop, put it in a speech.

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