I'm pretty sure I've waited my whole life for this!
Annabelle is old enough now to really enjoy arts and crafts. So, this morning we started by finger painting. Afterwords, we did a nature walk in the backyard and she picked up pretty leaves, sticks, pods and pine cones, and put them in her shopping bag. Her new favorite thing is to walk around with a purse or bag putting random items in....so I figured, why not marry this to the gorgeous weather outside!
Once she collected her loot, we came inside and glued everything to her finger painting. It's a total masterpiece!! She was so proud of her bag of "stuff" so I'm hoping once she's up from her nap, she'll point to the picture she made on the fridge and remember collecting it all from outside...we'll see!!
Since this was such a success, we're having 5 of her toddler friends over next week to do a group "Outside Discovery" arts & crafternoon.
I really love being a mom!
The Masterpiece
She calls it, "Dat"
Some mulch made the cut
Mid-Gather
Proud of her bag
The dogs were helping...and by helping I mean stealing her bag.
Maddie totally yanked the pine cone and took off with it.
Annabelle got angry and yelled, so Maddie brought it back.
Rough morning in the Olsen house!
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