Gobble Gobble

I ended up telling my friend that I wasn't coming to the knitting party. I told her that I don't do any kind of needlework, and that I tend to be really incompetent at it. But all of your suggestions got me thinking about the kinds of crafts I like to do.

I jokingly said to Christopher, "Let's do Thanksgiving crafts!"*

That's when he brought out his stack of construction paper. (Signs that you're married to a teacher.) First, he tried to make a pumpkin, but he didn't have orange paper, and so he made an apple instead. I made the leafy stem for it.


And then I got the big idea that I wanted to make a hand turkey. I even got out the tempra paints. (Those are mine.)


(I think I'm going to put it on the fridge.)

And that got me wanting to do more painting, and so I took all the clay pots that Chris just emptied so that we can grow herbs in our window...

(Any suggestions for what I can add to the plain blue one in the middle? I'm kind of stuck right now. And clouds didn't look nice, as I had thought they would. And I don't have sponges. The weird camoflauge thing I did with the pink one was done with paper towels and a dry brush.)

Chris found a big set of plasticene that he bought as some garage sale (never been opened), and he got modelling, autumnal-style:

I think we can all agree that Chris is the better artist of the household.

* Canadian Thanksgiving is this weekend. We feel the need to celebrate it on a different weekend from the Americans.