Sitting on the floor to play has been a part of our everyday here since Evan was born. Games, puzzles, art stuff, toy set-ups.... whatever. And now that the kids are getting older, I see them starting to hunch over to play and it doesn't look comfortable (or healthy for those spines).
We need a craft table but there is nowhere to put one. I'm hoping to figure out a way to make it happen in the current art corner of the living room right under the big window, but who knows. Until then, we sit on the floor....
We've been playing "Herd Your Horses," our new game from Gramma who visited last week.
This game is wonderful!! There are several games you can play on one board and all of them are fun. Chloe is addicted to it and has already memorized most of the horses names.
There are solitaire versions of the game so those of us who don't prefer competition can still have fun ;-)
The art corner is forever a mess, but since the best light comes in these windows we all gravitate toward it, even if we aren't doing art stuff.
A new stash of shiny party umbrellas was the highlight of several days in a row of playing. They even took them outside to play, stuffed them in containers for car rides, and also brought them to church.
For the past month or so, Evan and Chloe have both been really interested in ocean life. Chloe has been interested in fish for years, but the movie "Finding Nemo" really set this thing in motion for both of them. Chloe likes the colorful fish and the sharks while Evan gravitates toward unusual stuff like pufferfish and anglerfish. They asked for some anglerfish pictures (among other things) for coloring and cutting out, and spent an entire morning doing this:
The past few days have been so nice out that the art corner is only busy in the early morning while it's still 40 degrees out. By late morning it's above 50 degrees and sunny!!
So, maybe we don't really need a craft table. Maybe we just need it to be spring.
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