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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love doing crafts or whatever with my kids. Everyone's different. [/quote]

Op here. Crafts are fine. I have gifted and received other craft gifts that the kid can do. I’m fine to set up and sit next to child doing craft.

The activities I’m talking about is when the adult has to do her entire activity or do the entire activity together.[/quote]

This is very age- and kid-dependent. My 6 year old girl can do rainbow loom and melted beads by herself. She spent two hours doing the former last night, in fact, totally on her own except for cleaning up. But she learned at camp. If I had to read the directions and teach her, I would hate it.

The ones I hate are anything involving paint (messy no matter how neat the child), anything involving major dust (fossil digging kits), and anything with a science kit. My 9 year old boy loves those and he can do them on his own, but they tend to involve multiple intricate steps, sometimes over many days, and we have nowhere to keep them while they mature or whatever. Nowhere that is out of reach of the cats, at least![/quote]

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