After Alfee's nap, we attempted to paint the handprint and footprint we had made yesterday. Although they weren't dry, I thought we could just paint and then leave them to dry over a few days. The air dry clay has a peachy base colour so the Crayola paint look a little dull, so we use poster paint to do a second coat.
The craft idea was deceptively simple but it won't look very good unless you have a certain foot shape or hand shape and you can paint reasonably well on irregular surface. Painting the depression wasn't very fun or easy either. From here onwards, I had to step in to do a lot of intervention work.
The reindeer was definitely much more manageable for children. I let Alfee put glitter glue and add in all the sequins, ribbons and pom pom.
Olaf, however, was not so easy. Alfee's foot isn't the right shape so I had to alter it to create Olaf's head. By now, Sophie gave up on painting it. She politely excused herself and left me alone to finish it for her. With the glitter glue and sequins, it looks marginally ok. Sophie took a look and thank me for making her 'Olaf'. Maybe I should have just let her complete it herself. So hard to let it go...
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