Ok, so our first Christmas activity didn’t quite go the way I had expected. It’s a craft I’ve seen all over the blogosphere and decided that J would really like doing it.
You start out my dying glue. I simply added a few drops of food coloring into a glue bottle and used a bamboo skewer to stir it up. I only did green and left the other one white. See…simple.
Next, lay a cookie cutter on a piece of wax paper. Give the glue bottle to your child and let them fill up the cookie cutter with glue until there is a good layer of glue in the cutter. Sounds simple…right?
Well, J did fill up the cookie cutter, but lost interest very quickly in the craft. I wad hoping that he could do a few of these to give out to family, but it was a struggle for him to even finish one. I guess it’s just not his thing.
He struggled to fill the cutter without moving it all over the place. The issue is that when it gets moved around, the glue smears around too and ends up outside the cutter. Here is another way of doing this project that solves this problem.
When it’s all full, let it dry. It took ours a couple of days to get completely dry.
After it’s dry you can poke a hole in it and hang in the the window or on your tree. The real problem was that there was dried glue around the edges and looked a bit messy.
I’ll still hang it on our tree, but I’m not sure it’s a project I’d do again. Others have had great success with this…but not every project is for everyone.
I was a bit disappointed that J wasn’t all that interested in it, but we’ll try other Christmas projects that will hopefully be more successful for us.
Amanda
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Hmmm can the edges be trimmed where it is messy?
Most of them could be snapped off an trimmed. However there were a few thick spots where it was more difficult to nicely trim.
I think it turned out lovely. I was also wondering if you could trim the edges. Maybe J would enjoy it more on a different day. I know my son is like that sometimes.
Maybe we should try again later. I’m finding that J really needs activities where he can get up and move about during them. Maybe I’ll try it again on his small table where he can freely move a bit better. I do like the way it turned out, I just thought he would enjoy it more.
It’s still cute! But believe me, I know what a disappointment it is when the kids aren’t into a project. My boys aren’t into decorating cookies like I always was. It’s all trial and error!
Try no bake or try if they like playdough try shortbread that they put their hands on. Mine were hesitant trying something new but now love cooking and baking
I tried this ornaments last year and they didn’t work out that great for us either. 🙁
Somewhere I was reading to try and stick the cookie cutters to contact paper before filling with glue, that should keep the glue from leaking out. We’re going to trying that out soon
That’s a good idea! Thanks!