Make Paper Decorations
Today was a Preschool Day for DD so the activity needed to be relatively simple. Along with the two previous activities, this one is a repeat on last year. I have to admit that making paper chains and snowflakes wasn't a particularly engaging activity last year so I thought I might have a few other alternatives up my sleeve. In my travels I found a couple of fun sites:
Thinking that streamers might be the way to go, I went out and purchased some crepe paper streamer rolls. I guess I had rather grandiose notions of the play room being heavily decked out in streamer goodness.
What I keep forgetting is that my children's memories are long and they are creatures of habit. As soon as they saw what the activity was they were off looking for paper to make paper chains. We have a good supply of coloured construction paper so they just chose the colours they wanted to use, I cut the sheets into strips, then they got stuck into assembling (stuck - haha, i made an unintentional pun). The construction paper is somewhat repulsive to sellotape so it was a good thing that we happen to have 2 staplers in the house!
DS, who is only 3, found the stapling somewhat tricky so he required a fair bit of help. DD fared better and both of them persevered until their chains were about 1/2 a metre in length. From there it was a quick segue into paper snowflakes before I had a chance to suggest anything else.
I hadn't really been prepared for Snowflakes, so I had to do a bit of a rummage in my paper stash. I found some lovely lustered paper and set to folding it, only to find that it was impossible for the kids to cut through. After a bit of head scratching, I remembered that we had kept the tissue paper from yesterday's Christmas ornaments - problem solved (with the added bonus that I now feel like some kind of recycling superhero!).
So, we made paper chains (I finished the rest) and snowflakes (DS required a fair bit of help with the scissors on that one) and there is absolutely no sign of those streamer garlands that I thought would look so pretty.
Who cares! These activities are supposed to be all about the love...
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