Kiwi Crate!

Week TWO!

Let me start by saying this: I am not a crafty person.  I have wished so many times that I could be a pro DIY-er, but many attempts at earning that title have been failures.  BUT.  I don't want my kids to grow up with that attitude, because I think they will grow up to be much craftier than I am!  So week two's resolution is to do more crafts together.  This has been a goal of mine for a while now, and K & I were starting to get into a pretty good routine of it until BAM!  Baby H arrived and any routine I once knew disappeared.  I have missed this one-on-one time with K, so I decided to take the easy route and give myself some added incentive to do these fun crafts together.

Let me introduce you to the amazing Kiwi Crate!!  This little gem is a box full of exciting craftiness that is complete with every item required for the enclosed craft of the month.  (Including scissors, paper, even oil pastels and more!)  I signed K up for a subscription for Christmas, and each month he will receive one of these boxes in the mail.  This was our first one!  The theme of this month is penguins, and we got right to work (while Baby H snoozed away in his swing!) and dug into the box.  

The first craft we did was Penguin Bowling!  K decorated his penguins, put the feet on, and then tried out his new game!  

Next, we used watercolors (K's first time!) and oil pastels to color the Northern Lights on our Antarctic postcards.  We even had Aunt Ashley join in the fun on this one!  

There is one more craft included in this month's Kiwi Crate, but it required us to fill the enclosed penguin molds with water and let them freeze.  So they are in the freezer now and we will get to that one sometime this weekend!  

I love seeing my little guy's creativity at work, and I know that he enjoyed every second of our craft time!