"It's raining, it's pouring, everything is boring!" I'm sure that this is what goes through the kids' heads on a day like that. Everything that on a sunny day is acceptable, on a rainy day becomes completely unplayable with, so that by 9:43am we cannot hope for any more play out of the 127 toys lining the living room floor.
However, I had a plan. We were going to do crafts. Super crafts, really: we were going to make the Golden Pyramid, as seen in the Little Einstein's episode "The Legend of the Golden Pyramid". Materials: cardboard, ruler, pencil, gold laminating paper, scotch tape. Skills: a bit of architectural knowledge, ability to use scissors. Assumed play time: 25 minutes. Kids' attention span for project: 9.5 minutes.
10:17am: exciting project done. Still raining! Now what???? Justine showed extreme interest in repeatedly sitting on the potty and demanding "privacy!" During said privacy time I was able to regroup and pull out two mismatched socks: sock puppets!! Hurray!
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I'm impressed -- you guys are much more creative than we are! Golden Pyramids? Sock puppets? I'm taking notes.
Loved Justine and Vasco's sock puppets. Maybe you should get them to drive the cars/trains/vehicles that they made.
-- Wendy
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