One thing I've been so excited to do with the kids is a Color Me Mine project. I knew they'd have so much fun picking out their own item and painting it however they wanted. Well they had a little break this month and since we aren't doing any family vacations I planned my PTO for days they'd be off of school so earlier this week we went!
I showed the girls what it was like before hand so they knew what to expect and they were very excited about it. When we got there, they were surprised I told them they could pick ANYTHING they wanted (if they had chosen something big I probably would've talked to them about something smaller, but the big stuff was really high up so I wasn't too worried about it). Cara went with an axolotl (of course!), Gwen chose a fairy that was VERY detailed and I was a little nervous she wouldn't be able to paint it all or that she didn't realize how many details there were on it. Lucy chose a cupcake piggy bank. I had trouble picking something, I didn't really want to add to our clutter at home, but I didn't see anything too useful. Then Care pointed out a cute mug that looked like a tree with a heart carved in it and, even though I don't NEED anymore mugs, I decided that was perfect!
Picking paints was fun, the girls chose really good colors. After Lucy painted the top of her cupcake pink, I found a cute white with sprinkles color to put on top of it (I thought it would be perfect, even with the pink underneath it).
At one point Gwen had smeared some black on her fairy's face, so I helped her touch it up and we ended up fixing it really well (they tell you to do 3 coats so that when it's done it looks like a more solid color so we added coat after coat after coat of the skin color she wanted). Unfortunately, us fixing that distracted Cara and she accidentally got black on her axolotl's face. I did my best to help her cover it up, but it didn't seem to work as well as with Gwen's (which is weird because we ended up putting MANY coats of a darker pink color, but I kept seeing the black, whereas with Gwen's it was just a light skin tone color covering the black and that worked perfectly). We covered it up as best as we could and I just hoped that we did enough coats that when we got them back you wouldn't notice the black.
In the end, we all had fun, but the girls hated that we had to wait to get them back. We went and picked them up today and they are all SO cute! They definitely look hand made, but that's the fun of it. If it wasn't so much money I'd be taking them a lot more often, but we really don't need THAT many things in our house. I think they are excited to display them though and I had a really fun Memory Maker day with the girls!
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