The other day the kids couldn't see the tv screen while they were having their Wii time, so they decided they needed to make sun masks to help with the problem (while, craft-lover Lexi decided that and eventually talked Tori and Eli in to it). :)
Lexi (in the back) made a princess cloud mask, with purple and pink pom poms, while Tori had me cut out a basketball jersey for her to decorate as her mask. Eli, our craft agnostic, consented to making a paper with a story on it (a dolphin loving basketball and soccer player meets a lion in the woods), which he then turned in to a mask. Just for the record, his mask needed no glue. Very important, since Eli has declared anything with glue to be a craft, and he "doesn't like crafts." If I ask if he wants to do a project with me the first thing he asks is, "Is there glue? Because if there is glue it's a craft and I don't like crafts." Anyway, since it did not use glue, just pre-sticky foam shapes, his mask did not break his craft-tolerance barrier, and we were in the clear. :)
The sun masks worked (or the sun moved so it wasn't shining in the window, one or the other). :) Then the kids made up a whole play with their masks, something about basketball man Darth Vader, and basketball practice man Darth Vader, and the princess cloud . . . can you tell they have an older sibling/cousin who likes Star Wars? :) I couldn't believe a simple mask craft (don't tell Eli) could entertain them for so long!
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