Sometimes I wonder whether my ache to teach is presenting itself . . . Our neighbor’s girls visit our house at least one day each week to craft and cook with Annabelle and me, and with each get together, I’m having a blast. Thank goodness the girls seem to enjoy my company! This is what we made at our last crafting hangout:

a fake aquarium, as Ella calls it.

a paper plate flower garden.

organic cookies.

To create our fake aquarium, we shaved old crayons onto wax paper, covered the shavings with another piece of wax paper, placed the wax paper on top of newspaper, and then using an iron on a low setting, we ironed and melted the crayon shavings between the pieces of paper. Then we simply used a marker to draw fish and cut the fish out of the paper.

We added to the aquarium of wax paper fish by placing felt waves, coral and starfish around the scene. And then of course, my husband and I drew a few paper fish which we added to the fake aquarium.

To create a paper plate garden, the girls flipped the plates over and colored the outer edges one shade, and the inner edges another shade. We cut leafs from construction paper and used pipe cleaners as stems. What fun!

I’ll share our cookie recipe in another post . . .

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