Today we got an early start on Christmas and painted our own wrapping paper. I have some rolls of plain, white, thick paper and some inexpensive foam holiday stamps. We added glitter paint to the main holiday colors to make it a bit more fun! Using a cardboard color might have been smarter since we wanted to do a lot of "snow" in our designs (In this case, instead I put a touch of glue and silver glitter in white paint so our snow would show up on the white paper). In the past we have decorated the paper but wrapped the present at a later time. Today, since I already have a huge gift, we wrapped it first so that my 6 year old could have the "prime real estate" on the package. Tomorrow we will put the finishing touches on it (stickers, ribbons, etc...).
Overall:
10 Squishy points...you can't go wrong with painting at this age...especially something that will be seen by others and is highly coveted like a present!
6 Moomers points...fun, but messy...and she is somewhat unreliable if you actually want the final product to look nice. For us, the thought is what matters...thank goodness!
0 Teegs points...Slept through the first half; screamed through the second. Instead we did some singing and action songs together. That = huge smiles!
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