This week was our "spring break". We have had some unseasonably warm weather and I was looking forward to getting out and exploring some new places. Our plans got washed out by 45 degree weather and the first good rain (4 days and counting) we've had all year. In Collin's Art class at Co-Op one of his friends showed him how to make animals out of pipe cleaners and he's been begging for some ever since. I figured this would be a good time to get some. Because of the weather I wanted to light a fire and watch movies, but the kids were perfectly content making a plethora of animals. They didn't even ask to watch a movie!
Number of Pipe Cleaners in the Jumbo size bag: 350
Number of animals made to date: Too many to count
Size of mess 2 kids have made ALL over house: Ginormous
Number of kids it LOOKS like made the ginormous mess all over the house: 17 or 18
Hours of fun: Endless
Parents joy of such inexpensive entertainment: Priceless
(these were made in the first hour)
P.S. In reference to the title, I went to a Ward Welfare meeting right after Ike. One of the men there was irATE because the youth activities had been cancelled for a couple of weeks and his boys were home lighting bon fires in the street etc. He said that they were bored and didn't know what to do without electricity because, and I quote, "they were heavily dependent on electronic devices." This is now one of our favorite phrases.
4 comments:
Love the animals and thanks for the good idea!
I think Colby would love that too--is there some kind of instructions they used or did they just wing it on all of them? Email me if you get a chance!
These are SO cute! Good idea!
I love this, I think I have some pipe cleaners, Alice will totally dig this! And my kids are "heavily dependent on electronics"
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