Tuesday, June 29, 2010

June 23: Wooden Snakes

A friend of mine organizes and runs the website grkids.com which is amazing!  For starters, it lists all available kid-friendly activities in the Grand Rapids area on a calendar, it offers deals and specials for area businesses, and it hosts the blog of an area mom who focuses on frugal living and crafts for her kids.  It was from this blog that I learned about these wooden animals from Michael's Craft stores.  Her two boys enjoyed them and I thought my boys might, too.

When I was at the store there were 3 or 4 options, but I settled on two cobra snakes.  That way, KoenTysen wouldn't fight over who had which animal, and the snakes were the largest wooden animals, so I hoped that meant a long project session.

We used our own paints even though the snakes did come with blue, green, and red paint.  I didn't know if the included paints were washable (very important!), and then we'd have more variety in color, too.  It turned out that the bigger projects were not necessarily a good idea.  It was too much for the boys to paint.  I think each one painted about 1/3 to 1/2 of their snake.  They do like them, although the snakes haven't seen much action during playtime like I thought they might.  If I had to do it again, I'd pick smaller animals for the boys to paint.   

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