Cassidy loves to do crafts. Our monday nights are spent at the Jefferson Parish Library for story and craft time. Mama and Cassidy bike there if its warm enough even though its already dark out. Sometimes we take a spin around the neighborhood to see the Christmas lights too. (This is actually a pre-Christmas post, but I'm obviously a bit late posting ... I just got around to finishing it now... sorry for thedelay!)
Recently we've started having craft nights at home too! Cassidy has reached an age now where she can work independently for longer stretches of time so I can do some artwork too!
On this particular night, we made butterfly footprints
and a handprint on top of crayons melted onto a canvas!
We've also put together a responsibility board to start to introduce the idea of personal responsibilities.
We put the board together inside a poster frame and each night we cross out the things that cassidy has done that day with a dry erase marker. Then we just wipe it off when we are done. She was excited for the first few days about crossing things off the list and she still enjoys doing that each night, insisting on doing it herself. However, more often than not, she chooses not to make her bed or get dressed herself. (We are having A LOT of trouble with the dressing ourselves thing. She refuses to even try. On days when we don't have to be out the door to work/school, she will eventually work on it herself and succeed with a little help along the way, so we know she's capable ... willing: not so much.)
I made some Christmas gifts for cassidy's teachers. This year I used cardboard tubes (empty toilet paper rolls) wrapped in colorful scrapbook paper to make little gift boxes for candy. I filled each with some Lindt white and dark chocolate truffles and Dove dark chocolates, then attached a fleur de lis ornament to each with a ribbon!
I also was feeling crafty for thanksgiving when I made these treats for Cassidy's classmates and teachers! A friend found these on pinterest and passed it along to me! They were SO CUTE I just had to make them!
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