Tag: crafts

Have you ever tried to do crafts with babies or toddlers? If so, you know it’s nothing like crafts with kids.

Kids may make huge unwanted messes, or get overly excited or they might be oddly specific about how the t-shirt on your drawing, needs to be BLUE with lime green stars and glitter stripes “up and down, not side to side”, and they won’t accept anything else!

BUT BABIES and crafts is another story.

You see something cute online and it seems fairly simple. You get together all of the necessities, gather your baby and start.

Everything’s going great, baby’s curious, seems super interested looking at the paint on their little hands and then it happens.

HANDS IN MOUTH.

NO SMEAR IT ON THE TABLE.

BACK IN MOUTH.

RIP EVERYTHING UP AND THROW IT ALL ON THE FLOOR!

For some reason they get… sleepy?? time to rub the eyes AND ALL OVER THEIR FACE IT GOES,

DONT FORGET!! IN THE HAIR.

Meanwhile, you’re trying to get them to sit still.

“Put your hand here, not there, no!! right here!”

You’re covered in paint, and if you have other kids not participating they’re either crying or all of a sudden they need mom.

The cute pinterest art work you were trying to accomplish now has smudges and is not at all what you expected.

Now they’re demanding a bottle or food, need changed or want laid down.

AND YOU ARE OVER IT.

So, what now?

Their handprints may not look like handprints,

Foot prints are probably 3x the length their actual foot is, and its missing a toe somewhere, somehow.

So you PROBABLY take the paint and makeshift a cute little hand that truly looks nothing like theirs but grandma doesn’t mind nor does she notice, and it’s the “thought that counts” anyways, right?

When all is said and done, you probably sit and think about how you can’t wait until they’re old enough to just step on the paper and be done with it, or when you tell them to “write this, here”, it’s just that simple.

No matter how stressed out you may be after trying to accomplish something ‘so simple’, you still get so happy and that “proud” feeling overflows within you when you come back later and look at it.

Your baby is only so little for so long, and although it was tough, you were able to make a memory from it.