Coloring Fun

Cat missed 2 days of school a couple of weeks ago because she had a stomach bug. She was a trooper, though, and we were so thankful that other than some unpleasant diapers, the rest of us were okay.

We decided to do a simple crafty project that Friday morning to keep everyone happy and busy for a little while. I printed out some simple pictures online and did my best to re-create them on large sheets of paper.

I drew Jack's "Circus Train" first. (Of course, it only has a giraffe, a gorilla, and some balloons. Perfect circus, right?) I was hoping he would stay busy coloring while I got to work on Cat's princess, but this is about all the coloring he did on his own.

Once I started drawing Cat's princess, all Jack wanted to do was color on her paper. So once she could begin her coloring, I sat down with Jack and did a lot of coloring with him... or maybe he told me what colors he wanted different things to be and I colored it for him. But at least we worked on it together. :-) And now it hangs proudly on the wall in his room.

Cat spent a lot of time on her princess. She colored, glued on some fabric scraps
I gave her, and even added some sequins and pompoms.

Hers is now up on the back of her bedroom door.
There, she can admire it, but Jack and Eliza
aren't likely to pull things off of it.