How often do you do craft/painting kits?
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Anonymous
| Curious how often you work on jewelry making, craft kits, tie dye, paint a jewelry box, or paint rocks, etc., with your early elementary kid. We did one today and probably another 2 so far this year, but we still have multiple gifts of this kind of thing that we've never gotten around to. |
Anonymous
| Like 5 a week!!! |
Anonymous
Wow! How can you handle it??? |
Anonymous
I think my kid likes it as a form of art therapy to decompress after school. I just sort of zone out and do what she tells me to do. And I'm ok with it looking very ugly. This is key. |
Anonymous
| Never. But the kids do it. |
Anonymous
| Sometimes daily sometimes 2x a week or so. Kids are 5 and 8, boys, but love hands on crafts. |
Anonymous
| Never |
Anonymous
| My kids get a lot of these as gifts. I hate to say it, but we treat kits as one and done gifts, so even if it's something that they can do multiple times, we toss it after they've used it once especially if it's a pain in the butt to do ((ooking at you, National Geographic kits that my in-laws are obsessed with). |
Anonymous
| At this point they just do it themselves. I have a craft area with an ikea table and they can use all their craft stuff. Sometimes they ask for cups of water for paint. But at 5 and 9 they are capable. I check every day to make sure it's not too messy and clean up any spills. |
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Daughter loves to paint . Own Bob Ross series on DVD . Loves to watch and paint along . Makes something every day now . Somewhat hard to keep up with . Try to buy her new watercolors every day . Can get them cheap on Amazon . Also , Five Below of course .
- Neil |
Anonymous
| I hate craft kits 😂 They go in the category of "stuff you can do if you don't need my help" to me. I'll help them with stuff like sewing or knitting but I just cannot with the "paint a rock green and put googly eyes on it" kind of thing 😂 |