The subtitle of this post should be: Entertaining Your Children On the Cheap (or something like that).
Clara, Paul, and I went to our first non-family birthday party a week ago. Clara helped me not only wrap the gift, but make the wrapping paper.
I thought it turned out pretty cute! Now this is not any kind of original idea, nor is it rocket science how I did it, but I'm going to tell you anyway.
I grabbed a sheet of newsprint and asked her if she wanted to decorate it. She was all for it.
She drew a butterfly and a rainbow. We were going to a "Very Hungry Caterpillar" birthday, so her drawing was very appropriate (weird coincidence!). Can't see them? Let me help you.
After she finished, I busted out my new mini stamp set and using her markers, stamped on the "Happy Birthday" part.
We wrapped Pat's gift today using the same method. Cheap + Amused Child = Happy Erin
Put it in your arsenal, Moms, if you haven't already... Christmas will be here before you know it :-)
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