I did it for several days in a row, and each day Ninna made a beeline for the table and spent at least twenty minutes (sometimes much longer) working on some art. Bojey also joined in most days, if for a shorter time. One day I forgot, and Ninna said "mama, you forgot our project! I want you to leave us a project every day. It has to be an art project, and I want it to be something different every day."
Well baby girl, that's a tall order, but I'll do what I can. Here's what I left out one night last week--homemade blank books with a rectangle of cardstock for a bookmark:

And with that, I'm off to bed!


7 comments:
Ooh, fun, I want someone to set out a proj-jeck like that for me every morning too (and lots of quiet time to play with it!)
Those are great pictures Mama!!
I love this idea! Instead of stumbling downstairs to a dvd this is a lovely way for children to wake up in the morning!
I need to start something like this - we certainly have our share of crabby mornings!
Andrea--I would so love it too. I think there is something like that for adults, and it's called art school!
Sadie--thank you!
Oh, that's so awesome. I am going to try this. I would love to hear your thoughts on choosing activities w/ kids of diff. ages since E and A are the near same ages as your two - do you just do it and let them enjoy it in their own way or do you try to make it so both ages are able to do the activity (wordy question)?
I'd also love to know how you've been able to be tv-free for so long! we don't watch much, but would love to break the habit entirely!
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