Dear Reader,
I know this activity is an oldie, and let’s be honest, all the pictures you see of it involve happy faces that are much more… shall we say, photogenic? But, my preschooler has a mind of her own. And I love that about her. She was so excited to get to use glue, though. When I set up the noodles and the plate, she was excited; we could have been doing about anything and it would have been a hit.
Naturally, knowing that I would be taking a picture, I wanted to show off some cute happy face that I can proudly instagram. But I’m not raising an instagram kid. I am raising a real kid. One who will understand that all emotions are good and serve a purpose. So when she chose a sad face, and I quote, “because she likes sad faces,” I didn’t try to change her mind. Its her plate. So, it’s not your typical, “look at what my kid did!” post. But we had fun.
She made hair, eyebrows, eyes, a nose, and a mouth. I put the glue on for her. Eventually, I’ll trust her to do it herself, but not yet. It went way faster than I expected. I asked her if she wanted to add more hair or if she wanted to make another, and my little busy girly was ready to move on, so we saved the rest of the noodles for another activity and moved on. I’m sure it’ll be a good boredom buster, but it was so fast, that I feel like it didn’t entertain her for very long. Maybe it seems to take so long because it’s usually an activity done with more than 1 kid? If we do it again, maybe I can convince her to do a happy face, eh?
