I think we are all familiar with the saying; "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a fishing pole and he eats for the rest of his life" . It's a classic and it makes a lot of sense. But in the case of little girls the saying is more aptly applied to SPARKLES and might go something like this; "Give a little girl a craft and she will be busy for an hour. Give a little girl sparkles with the craft and you end up with a shit load of sparkles ALL OVER your house but the child will be busy for DAYS!".
This will be the Thanksgiving of sparkly Turkeys, Pumpkins, place mats, napkins, place card turkeys and Grandmas. There are sparkles EVERY WHERE ! There are sparkles where sparkles have no right to be. My house has exploded in a covering of BLING and I am personally finding sparkles in areas that are just not meant to glitter.
When I baby sit my grand kids there are always crafts involved. Usually on the first day or hour of the "stay over adventure" it is absolutely necessary for all participants to make a trip to Michaels Craft Store. We pile into the car, coupons in hand and off we go for the hour, (at least) adventure. I couldn't take these kids any place else that they would love more than to go to a craft store. They know the drill and head out to find the sale items left from the previous holiday. Kids really don't care if they are making Halloween crafts in November or Easter crafts in July as long as glue and glitter are involved. You might wonder if glitter comes with all crafts and the answer is NO! Most crafts are best sellers specifically because they DO NOT include glitter. What sane parent wants their kid in possession of bottles of sparkles? Any sane parent knows this is a recipe for disaster but the old kindergarten teacher in me is still drawn to the crowning part of any craft . . . GLITTER !! A craft is just not complete unless it shines and shimmers in the light.
Once at Michaels we discovered several Thanksgiving crafts that were very reasonably priced and so we had enough "Turkey" crafts for everyone when the Pompano Cousins arrived on Saturday. LET THE CRAFTING BEGIN ! Three year old Wynn and Grey were delighted to have things to color. Wynn spent a good hour coloring a small wooden fire truck. Grey decorated her "rainbow" airplane with a multitude of water color markers and it was beautiful beyond all imagination when she finished working on it off and on all day. To see these 2 little guys enjoy decorating a small toy SO MUCH was worth the whopping dollar spent on each item. I think Wynn may have taken his home and slept with it because he was so proud of his work. (Unfortunately the water color markers have a tendency to "bleed" and so both Wynn and Grey were transformed into red and rainbow children by the time their dad took them home. That's what baths are for! (And pay back for many years of raising my kids.)
Luckily cousin Kaelin had not discovered the small storage box containing the glitter. That discovery was made on Sunday when all Hell broke loose and the glitter monster went wild adding a GLOW to everything in sight. Kaelin was transformed into the SPARKLE FAIRY who wandered around the yard adding BLING to everything. My mums sparkle, the furniture sparkles, the carpet sparkles and thus my vacuum sparkles! Kaelin was very precise in her decorating. She had a small cup and a paint brush which she carried around while "painting" everything with a thin coat of glitter. When the sun is shining you need Eclipse grade sun glasses to avoid being blinded. But what the hey, it's only glitter and it washes off in the rain. OH WAIT . . . IT DOESN'T ! About the only thing the rain did last night was to spread the glitter across even more area out side. I do believe I noticed some glitter on the tree outside my patio. Unfortunately, the glitter inside the patio and house will probably remain for the rest of my residence here and then some. Sparkles have a tendency to cling to surfaces and so are extremely hard to clean up.
The lesson I learned from all this is NEXT TIME DO THE CRAFTS AT THE KIDS HOUSE !
No comments:
Post a Comment