Crafty Sunday

This is a post long overdue. It would have died a quiet death like so many before it had the last date for Shruti’s Artsy Craftsy February challenge not come up. Here it is.. my entry.

In a moment of weakness I promised N we’d make some nice ‘hearty’ crafts for Valentine’s day this year. I keep having these moments of madness and I keep living to regret them too. This time H fell ill and drove all thoughts of celebration out of my mind.

However N wasn’t about to forget my promise. Not just that, she also invited some of her friends. “We’ll all make ‘sooper’ things with my mama,” she told them all. So it was that the Sunday before Valentine’s Day a group of girls descended with their paints and brushes ready for some action.

Seeing there was no way I could wriggle out of this one I left H to watch the television and thought we’d make something quick and easy and get it over with.

Here’s my bunch of girls all set.

We started off with simple heart badges. We cut out heart shapes from coloured paper and the girls decorated them as they pleased with the name of the receiver in the centre. Finally we put on tiny bows and the badges were done. They didn’t seem too impressive till we saw almost all the children of the society wearing them in the evening. Pretty cute.

Next we did table place mats. I brought out old magazines and ad fliers that had come in with the newspapers on Sunday and cut out heart shapes. The girls got mat-sized chart paper/ handmade paper to stick on the hearts. There were ‘pizza hearts’ and ‘sunset hearts’ and when I couldn’t keep up with them I simply did some from coloured paper. The older ones went ahead and drew some figures too. What fun.

BTW a bunch of girls is not easy to handle. One of them wanted to make seven mats because she had seven members in her family. Another one requested, “May I make a small one for my baby sister at least?” I know now why I enevr made it to teaching. How on earth do you handle so many children? And worse, the requests are made so sweetly you don’t want to break even one heart.