some of the craft activities

Inspired by Sieni's recent posts about some of the craft activities she's been doing with Tara, I thought it might be nice to share some of the crafts I've been doing with Shiori. It's a great idea to record it and post it as it's always nice to share part of what we do in our daily lives. With a 2 and a half year old, we average about 2 craft activities a day, or only one if it's a big one like a couple of the crafts pictured below. I now wish I had been recording the crafts for a lot longer, as Shiori usually likes to dissect them after a few hours and I don't have anything to show her when she's older. Thanks Sieni!
This is a dolls house that we made together. It's a great way to use left over boxes and scraps of paper and material from sewing projects. Today one of the Baha'is in our community gifted Shiori with a lovely dolls house that she used to play with when she was a little girl, so I have a feeling that this one will be soon retired. We'll probably take it apart and make some other craft out of it :) Last week it was the birthday of one of our friends, so Shiori and I decided to make a gift together. Shiori decided that a bunny rabbit would be a fun idea. It was actually a great craft to do with her as she enjoyed stuffing the bunny with wadding, choosing the fabrics for the clothes and selecting the adornments. She even enjoyed helping with some of the stitching. This was a slow process where I would sew the needle in and she would pull it out, so it was team work stitch by stitch. This project certainly took all day, in intervils of course. Shiori then picked out the fabric for the draw string 'wrapping bag.' I'm looking forward to our next sewing project together as it was something we both enjoyed a lot