Arts & Crafts

My wife is quite creative. She is an artist and has command over the elements of design.

No, she did not help me with the look and feel of this blog.

Thus the shoddy look.

She helped me just a hair with MDLS. So, don't judge her abilities based on that blog, either.

Anyway . . . I digress.

She got the idea from a friend to take some heavy duty cardboard boxes and use them as toy chests. The kids can just dump their shi . . er, toys in the box after they play, therefore making clean up time less of a chore.

Well, my wife isn't going to just get cardboard boxes and throw them in their bedrooms like I would do.

She sat the kids down, made them plan out what they will draw on each panel of the box. She had them sketch it out on paper first. Then, she had them color their sketches.

Then she went and got supplies based on their ideas. She bought cut out rockets, robots, butterflies, glue, glitter, paint, sponge brushes, beads-- the works!

Then she had them painting their boxes, painting their cut-outs, and decorating the panels of their boxes.

She reminds me of an arts & crafts kindergarten teacher.

And the kids love it!

Yes, even my 8 year old know-it-all cynic.

And I love my wife for it, too.

And I can also tell that my wife wants to make her own box, too.