Arts and Crafts

This afternoon looked like rain, so our planned afterschool park expedition was cancelled. To make up for it (and for the fact that as soon as we had decided not to go, the sun came out, in a somewhat mocking manner) Pat and Maia sat down to some quality time with the new craft set. Now this is a craft kit to beat them all...it has feathers, glue, stickers, colourful foam buttons, glue and glitter. But most of all glitter.

I left them happily squidging away with glue and making nice colourful splodges, and I returned to a silver glitter explosion. Apparently, glitter, when poured onto the table when Daddy is looking at something else, creates an amazing picture. There was glitter on the table, all over her chair, on the floor, in her shoes, in her hair, all over Daddy, liberally sprinkled on the fruit bowl and her new monkey.

I got out the vacuum cleaner and began to hoover it up. After trying to wipe the glitter off Miss Maia and failing, I hoovered her too. She then took off all her clothes and ran about - twinkling away like a tiny Tinkerbell Godiva. I have a feeling this one will run and run.