My grandma did daycare for us for my whole childhood. We'd come over in the morning still in our jammies and would leave right before dinner. I spent a lot of time with my grandma.
There's a bunch of things I could say about how fun and special that was, but today I want to talk about crafts.
She made some fun crafts.
We'd make our own paper dolls, or draw pictures of ourselves and glue yarn on for big hair, or we'd trace ourselves on big butcher paper and draw in our face and clothes.
We took paper doilies and made fancy valentine's for the people we liked extra.
We made paper chains to countdown for Christmas, while listening to the Gene Autry Christmas cassette and eating chips and cheese and drinking hot chocolate.
I remember cutting an apple in half and it made that star in the middle and then we'd paint it and stamp them on paper. Maybe we only did that once, but I remember it was pretty special.
She also would show us how if you opened up the peanut shell, you'd see Abraham Lincoln. It's true. Ish. That's actually less of a craft and more related to foods making cool shapes, but you can see how my brain thought it made sense to include here.
When I was older I kept doing crafts at grandma's house. Like every day. I'd sit in the guest room at the big craft table watching Nickelodeon and drawing things or painting things. One time my cousin Alexis and I took our developing skills and became young entrepreneurs: we made sets of stationary (which was basically sets of paper that we took from a drawer) and puzzles we designed out of paper, and then sold them to my grandma and great-grandma for a dollar. We made $1 each that day. They told us after the second time that they weren't going to keep buying things from us at those prices.
I love my grandma and she helped me be way more creative.
