Craft Day
Ada and I made twenty-three bookmarks for her school Valentine’s Day cards. If you would have told me five years ago that I would have even tried to be all Martha, I would have heartily laughed. I’m sure there will be plenty of candy. I didn’t really want to contribute more.
I helped her do the measuring, but she did the cutting with our new awesome craft trimmer. She tried to help do the punching of the backs, but she just doesn’t have enough hand strength yet, so I finished it off. Then she decorated the white part, and I glued on the backs. She had me decorate four of them. Then she wrote her name on the back of all but three. We used the hearts that I punched out of the bottom of the back, stickers and a stamp for decorating. Since these are bookmarks, I convinced her to pass on the glitter glue.
These took us a little over two hours. Yeah, buying them takes less time, but I guarantee none of the kids will get one like hers. And we had fun. Jay sat beside us and decorated paper with markers, stickers and stamps. After all that was cleaned up, I made chocolate covered strawberries for a snack, explaining that they were the Official Snack of Valentine’s Day. And I used some leftover Lindt ganache that I had in the fridge.
Awesome! Very Martha indeed…
Fun! And pretty! Win all around.