Drive-by Crafting

The past couple days we did 'tiny houses'.
First I brought my paper cutter to work so I could get everything even, and spent a bit of Thursday morning cutting stuff. Each tiny house takes four pieces of card stock (I cut up some manila folders) and four pieces of scrapbook paper.

Each piece of scrapbook paper is glued onto the card stock, and each piece of card stock folded as precisely as possible in half.

Glue them all together in the shape of an X.

Then it's time for furniture.

We used model magic. One of my favorite things for kids, really.
I had the usual questions from them... 'do I have to make furniture?'
No. No you don't. In fact, you can make anything you want to make from it.
You don't have to make a tiny house, either.

The model magic is so much fun and so tactile that even my most reluctant crafter decided to sit down and make something.

I do dole it out in careful pinches, but I don't limit them, no matter how many times they come back and ask for more.

The point isn't to stop them from using it.

I've just learned that we waste far less when I do it that way.

We have red, blue, yellow and white. The kids have learned a great deal about color mixing, and my favorite thing about that is when they help the other kids.
"Hey! Where did you get the purple??"
"Oh, I made it. You just need some blue and red. Here, let me show you."

EVERY child who attended on Friday ended up making something. Each of them got a paper plate with their name on it. It's a work surface and a drying area all in one. Works out very well. We do many projects the same way.

So the photos are in random order, and I'm sure you can figure out what's what by looking.