Its so much fun to have a preschooler!Cake and I got some precious time yesterday (while her brother watched from the bouncer) to do a craft project. This is a paper bag town, mommy cut out the images from the back of a High Five magazine (if you don't know what this is, and have a little one, its Highlights for the younger set) and then gave Cake her first personal bottle of Elmer's Glue and let her go. This isn't the first time we have used glue, but it is the first time for mommy to let her practically do it herself, and it wasn't a disaster!
Its so hard to get time for just us now that Bug is here, so it was nice to be able to do this from start to finish with her. I love crafts, and look forward to doing many more with her, I even bought construction paper and preschool scissors the other day, just waiting for the right time to introduce the scissors. If you have older kids, when did you introduce scissors? These are really safe looking, and are rated for 3+ but I am still a bit leery.
With Cale, they had him using scissors at about 2 as part of his physical therapy for the CP. Helps train the fine motor skills. Connor was 3 then, so he got to use them then with his brother. As long as they're the safety ones, it should be fine. Have the vacuum handy, as there will be tons of tiny pieces of paper everywhere.
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