Unfortunately... I have rather uncooperative children. After a 15 minute tantrum from the two-year-old about wearing one of my old shirts so he didn't get paint on his own clothes, and gloppy smears of green paint all over the first plate (which I then washed off) I decided to try it with the baby. He can't make nearly as much of a mess as his brother, right? Wrong. Once I got paint on his hand, he balled it up into a fist and refused to open it, even when I just took him to the sink to wash him up.
Craft FAIL.
(I really wish now that I'd gotten pictures of the green globs all over the plates and the children, and me!)
So then I had another idea: footprint Christmas trees!
The baby can't really ball up his feet (although he did keep trying to curl his toes, which made things rather... smeary. And it took me and my husband to get his feet properly placed) and then the two-year-old can "decorate" the tree by jabbing dots of red and gold all over.
Still turned out not quite as nicely as all the cute pictures I've seen, but I guess I should have known better with my crazy boys!
So there they are, one for each set of grandparents.
We made one for us to keep too, but it turned out even worse. Rather more lopsided and smeary. And we haven't put the star on it yet.
Well, there's our Christmas craft of the year. If any of you try it and have better luck, please send me pictures and/or tips! :)
Merry Christmas!
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