We will come! Especially if it's free! ;-)
For the longest time I've known about the Lowe's Kids Crafts that they have every Saturday. I've gone a few times with my nieces and nephew when I was pregnant w/Addison. However, today we actually got to go WITH Addison! It's such a fun idea for them to do and it's a great way to get them familiar with some manual labor! That way, we can transition them quite easily to some more manual child labor at home! ;-)
We woke up this morning without any plans so it was a perfect day to start a new tradition. We all got showered and dressed (yes, it had been quite awhile since I've done that w/all this snow) and headed out to our local Lowe's. We signed our little girl's life away and got our craft kit and joined in the hammering chaos around us. It was a lot of fun, and surprisingly more work than I thought it'd be. Those little nails take some good muscle to hammer in!
Addison made a few attempts at swinging a hammer like a drunkard. Then Mom & Dad decided to step-in and offer some assistance. I was wondering if she was "too young" for such a project but after looking around the room, 90% of the parents were building their child's project as well....regardless of their age. It was hilarious to see. And really loud as well. But a lot of fun! She loved it, especially when she saw the finished product - a heart shaped music box. She's open and shut it about a billion times since we got home.
After all that hard work, she earned her first patch to sew on her apron (which we'll get next time around). Looking forward to future Saturday's where she can don her apron and head on back to Lowe's for some more wood working projects! Overall, it was a fun family outing and the day is only half over so far!
Here she is, halfway through the project 90% built by Daddy.
Proof that she did get to take a few swings of the hammer. She preferred to do it on her own a few times but we didn't want to risk injury to Dad's face w/a crazy hammer swing. Yup, it came close a few times.
And the finished project - a heart shaped music box! Mommy got to assist in the building efforts as well. She was lucky enough to only smash her finger once though! What I won't do for that cute face!
1 comments:
Cute! Home Depot does it too, on different Saturdays. I didn't know Lowe's did it. We'll have to try theirs next month. You are glowing by the way.
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