Thank you for all the wonderful responses to my last post about where to shop. I now have a plan for how to proceed and I’m dreading the process much less than before.
Last night I sat down with the kids to make bead candy canes. You make these by stringing beads onto pipe cleaners and then bending the thing into a cane shape. They make great Christmas ornaments and gifts. We also used jingle bells and pipe cleaners to make door hangers. I had mentally figured that both of these projects would take about 30 minutes to complete. I seriously underestimated the creative potential of pipe cleaners, beads, and jingle bells combined. The kids were making constructions for two hours and having worlds of fun while doing it.
For some reason Link felt that this sort of Christmas project required music. Since none was readily available, he favored us with a rendition of Jingle Bells. Gleek and Kiki joined him. It is a little known fact that any group of children who begins singing this particular Christmas tune will gradually increase the volume of the song with each iteration. In no time at all I had kids shouting Jingle Bells at full volume while bending pipe cleaners to their whims. Ah Christmas.
That sounds like great fun to me. I keep forgetting about pipe cleaners as craft items. We may have to run out to get some, ourselves. They’re so easy for even little hands to create with!
That sounds like great fun to me. I keep forgetting about pipe cleaners as craft items. We may have to run out to get some, ourselves. They’re so easy for even little hands to create with!