Rainbows

After having an awesome outdoor playdate this afternoon the girls came in and Ada was chomping at the bit to do the new work that I had put out today.  It had been a while.  Emma found this when she woke up from her nap and was excited to try out the tongs again.  It's meant as a 1:1 correspondence work and I did my best to find some different colors.  This was inspired by dinner 2 nights ago.  We had those yummy frozen arancini from Trader Joe's and I was so excited about the plastic container they came in so I could make a work- I have officially lost my mind.

I also changed up are art bins to have rainbow crafts in them.  Honestly, I've looked at a gazillion of these things on Pinterest but ultimately I just went into the craft room and grabbed what I had that I thought the girls would like and that was easy to put together.  There were some white paper plates handy so I cut them in half added a rainbow of markers, a glue stick and a small bowl of cotton balls for clouds.  I cut some office paper in 1/4 and added a freehand rainbow and rainbow of crayons and shiny star stickers in another bin.  I put the rainbow stacker on the table for "inspiration" and called myself done.

I struggle with trowing away the artwork the girls make.  I try to photograph and throw away, keep my favorites and display some too.  Sometimes there is a large stack of artwork on the kitchen counter that I haven't sorted and today was that day.  I decided to quickly throw up a string on some random screws that were left in the hallway from the previous owners.  I put some clothespins on and hung a few things.  My apologies for the poor quality picture, but the finished rainbows are up.  Emma's on the left (Ada helped her with the glue) and Ada's on the right.