The Best Laid Hands

The Plan: A Lovely Easter Craft
The kids calmly make black hand prints next to each other on a piece of construction paper.
 
We later glue on puffs of cotton to form little lambs, a small one for Dylan's hand and a larger one for Abbey's hand.
 
The Detroit Institute of Arts knocks on the door wanting the frolicking lambs to exhibit in a prime position near the other artistic geniuses of the past and present.

The Reality: A Comedy of Errors Easter Craft
I can't find black Crayola paint and try to make my own using black food coloring.  That makes some strange greenish-grey color, so our lambs are going to have brown legs and heads.

Dylan gleefully dips his little hands into the paint and then refuses to open them to make handprints, until he decides to make them all over his legs.  And his face.  And the table.

Abbey calmly makes her handprints, and I hurry to press Dylan's little hands onto other pieces of construction paper that we will later cut out and glue next to Abbey's handprints.

(Note here that I could have had her do all of the handprints, since their hands are very, very close in size.)

We hurry upstairs for an impromptu morning bath.

Dylan tries to eat puffs of cotton. 

I let him, thankful that he is staying away from the glue.

I wish I would have made coffee before starting the craft.  Caffeine would have helped.

Abbey loses interest when I put the cotton away, and I finish cutting out Dylan's lambs and gluing them next to her lambs.

The DIA has not yet approached us about adding us to their world-renowned collection.

the cooperative crafter 

the crazy crafter 

the 9:00 am bath 

one of our finished products

made with much love and laughter if not much skill