Adventures in Crafting: Alphabet Week-Day 2

In the wake of Monday's failed events, I went into Tuesday with lowered expectations.  My schedule was already planned out, but as I have been noticing since I had began creating these MS Excel based schedules they serve merely as a guide and nothing more.  It keeps me focused and less scattered brained than I would be without one.  CJ woke up around 7:00 am and since the Valley is blazing hot, we try to get him outside as soon as possible.  I then decided to skip pushing the picture match game and let him play out back for a little longer.  By 11:30 am I busted out the craft box.  This was insanely exciting to me as this is our first home craft and I actually have a craft box for my son.

This day was letter A so I used the craft from an online website, I will post the link later, where they suggested making alligators by painting clothes pins green.  I thought this was an awesome idea and it was only partly because I already had clothespins in my personal craft box.  Well, to my surprise this one went well.  By well I mean I coaxed CJ into painting a little, but he was more excited about stacking the paint strips.  I had pipe cleaners in one of the boxes and ended up shaping the letter "A" and he loved that.  I took this as a win and it took up way more time than I expected and I even threw in teaching how to clean up.  Aside from letting him play only alphabet apps on my phone and playing all alphabet songs for a few minutes, those were the only alphabet activities that took for the day.

Things I Learned:  Go with the flow
                                Make up as you go along, it's more fun and organic
                                Any acknowledgement of the craft is considered
                                participation