Mark and I have all the social skills of krill, but I really enjoyed hosting Frances's birthday party, so I decided we were going to have an Ornament Party, good sense be damned, so the kiddos could paint ornaments and the parents could socialize. That was the plan. Then Frances, and most other kids in town, came down with a raging fever and the party needed to be postponed.
Luckily, most of our intended guests were still able to come the following weekend. This is how the dining room looked before the festivities started.
Frances and Sophia started with Cinnamon Applesauce ornaments. I thought they would just cut the dough out with cookie cutters, but they also added some glitter paint for pizzazz.
After a little bit, our next guests arrived bearing their Christmas tree that wouldn't be of any use to them after they left town in a few short hours. Hurrah for recycling! Frances and Tyler were keen to help their dads put up the tree.
Hang in there, Tyler. I'm not sure what those girls are up to either.
"Ornaments? Why would we want to paint ornaments when there's this house here to play in?"
If the kids weren't interested, at least the mamas were.
We did manage to corral the kids in for one last bout of ornament painting.
In the end, we turned out a lot of ornaments and had fun all at the same time. Maybe one ornament per kid next year instead of the 16 I had planned this year? Maybe...Pictures of the final product ahead.
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