Since yesterday was Easter, we decided it would be fun to paint some eggs. I didn’t have white eggs or dye. I hadn’t really prepared well for this. So I improvised.

I took some of the eggs that were about the go bad, emptied them out and David picked some paint colors he liked.

We took turns painting a base coat.

Several of the colors he picked were shiny and translucent so they didn’t paint all that well but he didn’t care. We then made circles with the top of his markers and dots with the back of the paint brush.

So we ended up with these two.

And these two.

All in all, it was quick and fun and we both enjoyed ourselves quite a lot. Next year, I will be more prepared.

This week’s craft was inspired by this (click image for source):

David said he wanted to print on noncolored printer so he could color it and I obliged but then I woke up to this.

He seemed to like them so I didn’t say anything. We picked yellow and green construction paper to glue to the back, punched the circles out.

David put the glue on.

And I stuck them together.

We decided they weren’t strong enough so we glued the construction paper sides to each other and made them all twice as thick.

Which then made it possible for David to build things.

It was really fun and he is enjoying them a lot.

This week’s craft was inspired by this (click image for source):

I am nowhere as talented as Lier so ours did not turn out nearly as awesome but I still love it and so does David.

We grabbed an Amazon box, printed her pdf, cut it all out, traced.

Cutting the cardboard was really quite hard for me. I used box cutters and scissors. I am not talented.

It took me a while to figure out how the whole thing fit together but I did eventually manage it.

And I must admit David loved it.

By the time we were done, I was pretty exhausted and ready to stop so we didn’t do the little pieces and there was no way I was doing the ends like she magically did. I didn’t even get to put the sail in but I think that worked out better actually.

The next morning, I woke up to find David had colored it all with his markers and he’s been playing with it nonstop.

Who can complain about that?

This week’s craft was inspired by this (click photo for source):

We don’t normally have cartons in the house because I don’t like them and we tend to buy a gallon of milk. But as it turned out, we bought some orange juice for Christmas so I saved the carton.

We gathered all of our supplies:

We then taped the edges with glue and construction paper.

We drilled holes in the bottle caps.

I didn’t have the sticks she used, so I cut up a long match we had and thankfully the straws were still wide enough.

David put the straws through.

And we glued them to the truck.

Here are two shots of the finished product.

And here’s David playing with it.

This was a quick and super-fun project. Highly recommended. David loves loves loves his truck.

Thanks to Lisa, we downloaded some paper airplanes today and we followed her suggestion and made a Delta one and a Classic one.

We printed out the models.

I did most of the folding while David watched. He picked the Delta one and said the Classic can be mine.

here he is with both of them.

Then we raced both of them for a while as we laughed. I taught David how to throw properly (he kept throwing it down and not up so it wouldn’t glide.) and then we realized the little one was watching too and I couldn’t help but get a video of his reaction. It was the highlight of the whole event for both David and me (and Nathaniel I guess!).

Thanks Lisa for the greatest idea!!

This week’s craft wasn’t a craft. It was a science project. We decided to do one of the experiments in the science kit I got David for Christmas. It was the exploding volcano.

Here’s David doing it:

And since photos cannot capture this one, here’s a bit of video I shot. It’s one minute and might be boring for you. We’re whispering because Jake was napping. Nathaniel is screaming cause he’s in the high chair and out of puffs.

This was a really fun one for me. I always loved playing with my Chemistry set as a little girl and thanks to David, I got to relive a bit of that. I might have even enjoyed it more than he did.