Dressing Up Pine Cones

I hear whispers of an elusive thing called "quiet time," an event where an older, non-napping child plays by herself in her room while her younger brother takes a nap.

Abbey gets the memo about quiet time and gleefully covers it in glitter and cut up construction paper and asks for more crafts

Recently, we visited a friend and abandoned a pine cone craft due to overly sappy, damp pine cones, but thanks to her neighbor, we left with a bag full of cones ready to be used once they dried out a bit.

Glitter crafts mean we wait until naptime.

this is the face of a girl who would rather make a mess than take a photo

What we used:

Pine cones

Spray craft bond

Fine glitter in pink (NOT red, Mommy!) and green

Large glitter in silver and gold

fine glitter coats everything and generally makes for better crafts

but Abbey doesn't exactly have a light hand with the shaking

we balance it out with the larger glitter

What we did:

covered the table with a giant plastic bag

I held the pine cones and sprayed with craft bond

(the spray glue is great for holding glitter, but it's definitely not for the preschool crowd to use without supervision-sticky and messy)

Abbey shook the glitter over computer paper so we could pour the extra back and use it again

What we did with a glut of glittered pine cones:

Let dry on plastic placemats

Gathered on a cake stand

They're currently in the middle of our dining room table