Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Do crafts "BUG" you?

Often I have grand ideas for doing crafts with my kids. I'll get everything ready and then they go nuts and I'm too swallowed up in the chaos to enjoy the moment. LOl
Well, today my 11 year old brother in law and his 2 cousins came over for about 4 hours. You better believe that I had a surplus of board-um busters ready! ;)
First we had Bug Olympics; everyone caught a bug and put it in the center of a sidewalk chalk target and the first bug to crawl or hop out of the outer circle was the winner. We tryed grasshoppers, potato bugs, and ear wigs.
Second, we made bugs out of rocks, sticks, and flowers. This was a big hit and everyone made several different ones.
Third, we made race cars from toilet paper rolls. This was more work and more MESS! but it's done now and everyone had a fun time!

4 comments:

Kristy said...

Cute craft ideas, your such a good mom!

Amelia said...

What a cute idea! And way to be prepared - I bet they just loved that!

Clint and Sheri said...

Those crafts are so cute!

Seantae Jackson said...

Those are SOOOO cute, and I'm steeling the idea if that's ok. (Way to be prepared with more than video games for him....that's all we do).