How to Spend a Rainy Afternoon

While we haven't endured the frigid temperatures that have struck much of the country, the weather around here has been a bit gloomy of late.  The rain and chill have kept us from the park, so we've had to come up with other ways to spend our time and energy.

Recently we decided to put some sparkle in our day with a bit of glitter.  Kathleen loves glitter (is there a three-year-old girl who doesn't?) and spent almost an hour working on her glittery masterpieces.  Construction paper, glue, and glitter.  Who'd have thought that you could fill so much time with just three things?  (Well, maybe four things -- Kathleen has also recently learned to use scissors -- closely supervised, of course.  So she spent a bit of time cutting paper, too.)

We worked on a jelly roll pan in an attempt to contain the glittery mess.  That didn't work out perfectly, but it worked well enough.  There was a bit of a mess, but that's why we've got a vacuum, right?

Kathleen started with glue.  

Plenty of glue.

And then she happily shook glitter over the glue.  (Sometimes the glue was better covered than others.)

When we'd gotten enough glitter on the pan, she abandoned the shaking and just sprinkled with her fingers.

Not content with the first go at something, Kathleen decided it needed a little something extra.  What could that be?

More glue.  Obviously.

And then more glitter.

When she was completely satisfied with her creation (which, by the way, she immediately announced would be for Grandpa -- to go with the princess card, I suppose) she did the only thing she could. She asked for more paper!