Another one of my "bad mother" admissions is that I've never been a big fan of the "play date". The reason, sadly a selfish one, is that when the kid were younger it seemed that I always ended up being the one having to do the entertaining of the kids invited. Emily and Matt loved the idea of a play date but after 10 minutes they would have no idea what to do anymore leaving the task of entertaining my job. This being the case, when young, play dates were very few.
As the kids have gotten older, play dates or as Emily likes to say "get togethers" are more palatable because the kids are more independent and able to think of things to keep their guests occupied.
One thing is for sure though, if planned accordingly, a "play date" usually doesn't occur. Why? because 9 times out of 10 it turns into a craft date.
One of Emily's friends, who is also a neighbor, loves to craft. So, last week we made the plan that she would come over for a "craft date". The kids (including Matt) were able to choose paint, paper and embellishments to "create" a notebook clipboard and picture frame. The kids were excellent at taking direction on how to cut and modge podge the papers on to the frame and clipboard. Of course, the most fun was when they styled the items with the embellishments they found in my bins of supplies in the craft room.
Matt chose a patterned paper that resembles a sheriff's badge star and embellished his frame with fireman stickers.
Emily and Gianna chose the same paper for their clipboards. Emily's frame has cupcake paper and sweets embellishments. Gianna's paper is a colorful zebra stripe embellished with jewels.
At the end of the day, everyone was very happy with their creations.
As always, thanks for stopping by!
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