The first craft was a Christmas tree and the tree is Mia's hand prints and the lights are her finger prints. All I had to do was paint the trunk and a star at the top. Seems easy enough until Mia went right to the top with her hand prints leaving me no room for a star. I tried to paint one over her green hand print which was a big flop.
The second seemed easy enough too. Each of the girls foot prints, a simple boarder, some dots and write Mistletoes. Mia's foot print went great, Melody was not a fan of the paint on her foot so getting her to do a nice print was a task, and she started to slide around in the process making it not much of a print at all but I pressed on. My dots got smudged and after I wrote Mistletoes I dropped water on the canvas running some of the letters which you can't see as much in the picture.
I was all stressed over the "imperfection" of the projects and kept trying to think of ways to fix it. But then I had to straighten myself out and realize the point here. Did my kids have fun? Yes! Then that's all that matters. They are cute decorations we can put out each year or do new ones each year as they get bigger. I could be the hovering mom who makes sure the crafts are perfect so they are "pin worthy" or Facebook worthy to brag about your kids. But i'm not going to be.
Here are our Christmas crafts in all their glory and smudges. We had fun and made a huge mess and that's the point of it all!
You're absolutely right! It's the process, not the product that is the point! For the record though, both of those pieces of artwork are beautiful!
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