Paper Crafts for every Holiday

This post is frustrating me.

Every once in a while I have a picture issue with blogger.

When I upload a picture, it's oriented correctly. Then, it uploads sideways, rotated some amount - either 90 or 180 degrees. SO annoying. Even if I delete it, it won't upload right. Some files and blogger are NOT friends.

But I'm going to move on.

I wanted to share a small decoration we do for each holiday.

Gwenna LOVES "projects" and for her that's anything from coloring to stamps to paper craft and beyond. She just loves hands on crafty projects. I don't know WHERE she gets it! So I figured out a way to let Gwenna help decorate for every holiday. This is good because I only really decorate for Christmas and birthdays so now our house has something up year round.

All I do if pick a shape for Gwenna to decorate. She LOVES glitter glue/paint so I let her do that becuase I also love sparkles. So Gwenna decorates a shape and we mount it on pretty paper with some holiday saying. Then we trim and frame. See? SO simple and really cute. You can, of course, tell Gwenna did it. I love that! She's always so proud of the finished product when she makes projects.

I have two example to share. The first TERRIBLE picture you will just have to cock your hear to the right to take in properly.

Of course there are little hands involved.

Here is our Valentines Decoration I took out of the frame as we rotated a new one in
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And here is our St. Patrick's Day Decoration. It was a lot of fun to make. I did the bottom right leaf of the clover and most of the stem. Gwenna did the rest.


Pop it in a frame and you're good to go, glare and all! :)

Make sure the previous holiday's Decoration gets put behind the current so you can rotate properly.

Easter is coming next and I'm really looking forward to that one. I figure, some Christmas or even Thanksgiving, Meredith will get a turn!