One recent evening the kids were craving some family time, and I was feeling in the crafty mood. We came across a wonderful website by a talented artist: The Toymaker who offers patterns for paper toys for free-download. Her creative patterns and pretty illustrations were just the thing we needed! We enjoyed our creating so much that we continued printing, cutting and gluing until way past bedtime! S. was so excited to know she had the following day off of school, she said, “Let’s do this the WHOLE day tomorrow!” . . . and we pretty much did.
{believe it or not, M’s little airplane is still in-tact!!}
{S. made a whole family of pandas complete with a little cottage. These are so darling!!}
{A’s toy store didn’t last quite as long as the other paper crafts, and little brother got a hold of it and dismantled it!}
I highly recommend this website- if your kiddos love paper and glue as much as mine, you are sure to find hours worth of fun here. Our crafting project eventually became a photography project as well. We set up a mini-backdrop on the window sill and with a piece of blue paper created a sky to give the scene depth.
These pictures are precious! Looks like your kids had a blast. I love the expression on A’s face, the second photo down. Cracks me up! Reminds me a lot of you in pictures of you as a kid. Also it looks like A got a hair cut (with shorter bangs?) Very cute!
Love you guys!
Jess
Do you remember making stuff like this as kids? So much fun! That website is great and I am sure my kids will make me do some of the projects with them, the Panda family is adorable. BTW how is everything going? Any names picked out yet?