To HATE 'craft'?

[SlightlyJaded]

That's it really.

DD woke up poorly today. My kind friend took DS out for a couple of hours and lo and behold...

Me: what would you like to do this afternoon? Anything you like

Her: Craft

Me: (heart already sinking) OK what kind of craft? Shall we do the sewing dolly you got at Christmas?

Her: No. I want to do cutting and sticking

Me: Right...

Her: And glue and glitter

Me: Are you sure you're feeling well enough?

Me: Oh ok, so let's see what we need?

Her: I think we'll need everything

Me: ok what are we making?

Her: I don't know but anyway mummy, you're not making, you have to watch me. Because I am ill

cue 10 minutes of glue blobbage, glitter spillage, 4 million snippets of useless paper - all stuck to kitchen table

Me: so what are you making darling?

Her: I don't think i want to do craft anymore. Will you play a game with me?

watch in silence as cat pads through glitter glue blob and begins journey up stairs

I hate doing crafts with children because I am a control freak Art Nazi who can't let them do it badly and ends up grabbing the glitter glue/playdough/card off them and saying "go on let me just fix that" and they end up wandering off somewhere where there isn't an insane woman.
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I love craft, although primarily sewing and making clothes. I even have friend round for sewing circle style evenings.

DD (2.3) likes making a sticky glittery mess, which I don't count as craft but wll facilitate on a semi regular basis. I'm hoping she will develop a bit more of a taste for it as she gets co-ordinated, Mr.Maker is her favourite program on Cbeebies so she likes the principle! I have to absolutely sit on my hands though to stop taking over and making something properly rather than just splashing glue about in a happy fashion.

NorthenWreck - I'm so glad it's not just me!

SlightlyJaded. Oh God! It was a chocolate cake box, with the front torn off so I can keep 'precious' things in there. Sellotaped on top of that was a Cheezy Dipper box. To each side of the CDip box there was a Jaffa Cake box. Attached to each side of the Jaffa cake boxes were pieces of cardboard (wings apparently).

And the crowing glory was a toilet roll tube.

It's mahoosive! And I have to give it bedroom space because he made it, it's a gift and I have to store my stuff in it.

I await being judged for having all crap boxes for the kids to do crafts with. It should all be 'organics'. .

Chocolate cake, Jaffa cakes, Cheezy Dippers. MNetters will be fainting. I'm throwing in a mention of a blackcurrant fruit shoot that he just told me he wants to use as a skittle.

TOTU it sounds magnificent.

I am still awaiting mine because there was much drying that had to take place. I believe clay may be involved

at Fruit Shoot skittles.

And Northern that's it exactly! Into am a self confessed craft-Nazi. And apart from
hating the gluey, pointless mess, It's the inevitable abandoning mid-way that really makes my heat sink.

i don't have a craft room (well, i DID have one but then dd's Sylvanian Families collection got too huge and needed a room for itself) so now I "just" have a very large craft cupboard. everything is in labelled boxes and sorted on the shelves by craft type.

i can feel you all getting twitchy at the very thought of it all (muhahaha!)

for those of you who have dc who enjoy "craft" but you don't - may i suggest a look at the Baker Ross website as they do oodles of "craft kits" where everything is cut out and many things are sticky backed so no glue required.

I love doing crafts - so far DD has made a fish tank, a unicorn garden, a modular castle and a cave (cereal boxes, plastic bits..) I don't mind glitter and mess and don't interfere (much) when it's a bit wonky. Role play games on the other hand send me mental in minutes. DD is currently obsessed with Kung Fu Panda and 'jail' games with superhero rescuers. I cannot be 'Mummy' Panda again without screaming inside!

You need the tray . The tray that you can hose off at the end of the fun. And double sided tape. Muuuch better than glue.

Worse than craft.... DDs request for half term was "pleeeease can we go pottery paintin again?" So yesterday I sat and knawed through my knuckles as she merrily sploshed paint across a ridiculous giant goblet that cost £15. And then next week I'll have to go and collect it, and use the darn thing, have it sitting in the cupboard and never drop it on the floor by accident

And she has got though an entire ream of paper by cutting it up, sticking all the sheets together to make bricks so she can build a secret wall around her bed with a magic door in it. At least that should keep her busy for a while :o

Wow, I like the secret wall and magic door idea!!

I don't mind kiddy craft but frankly, an adult with a "craft room" is just sinister.

I am basing this opinion entirely on the fact that my DP's dad has a witch girlfriend who has a fecking craft room at their house which is basically the big spare room, so whenever DP's lovely sis goes to stay, with her 2 children, they have to sleep in the box room as this supposedly grown up woman has taken over a large part of decent living space with her crap where she churns out utter shit home made cards with fluffy kittens on which we have to ooh and aah over on birthdays and at Christmas as she is so fucking meantalented that she can't bear to buy a normal card from a shop.

I don't like her. Can you tell?

fucking mean

I'd like to stick up for adult card-makers! I made all our wedding invitations (very simple design, no glitter or sequins I promise) and the whole lot cost about a tenner, so saved us a heap of cash. Also, I hate most of the cards in shops & resent paying £2 for a card which most of them seem to cost now.

I don't have a craft-room though

I'll let you orf then WillSing.

Only just though

Making wedding invites which I did is not in the same league as regularly churning out decoupage fluffy kitty cards with personalised names in gilt foil.

My DMIL has a neighbour who does these so we all get birthday cards with layers of shut doilies and whatnot, personalised foil names in a football theme for DH and DS and kitten themed for me and DD

I have no doubt that she has a craft room, buys supplies on eBay and does serious amounts of scrap-booking to boot.

HOWEVER she is 70 odd which vaguely excuses her a bit. Young people with craft rooms alarm me.

Oh God CraftFlashback time

Hated it then, htre it now.

So to any future GC's, it will not be happening unless DH does it.

I'm so relieved I'm not the only one who hates craft! I can't even deal with DS colouring in as he doesn't stay in the lines then has the cheek to scribble over mine!

Us SAHMs are supposed to love baking cupcakes and crafting with the DCs. Well I hate it. I don't do it. Glitter = shitter. Drives me to self harm. And I'm supposed to feel guilty for locking up felt tips finger paints Sellotape glue and shitter. WELL HELL I DON'T.

I hate craft, I have a 5yo and a 6yo and I just leave them to it then clear up after, it's what to do with the actual art itself....

did you find the time to wash pussy"s paws ?remember >revenge of the seriously annoyed cat !was it"s tail swishing high ? oh dear !

Craft? Isn't that what school and grandparents are for?

A few weeks after Halloween DH was talking in a meeting. One of his colleague's said,

"I can't take you seriously with glitter on your face."

DH has never been a fan of glitter and sticky stuff, now he is even less. I'm guessing I won't be dressing up as anything that involves glitter for Halloween again.

YANBU. I have never done crafting with my Dc's apart from a little bit of painting, and I love making things! just not messy stuff with children!!

I love craft, the more mess the better.

Our kitchen table has a beautiful sparky sheen from ingrained glitter - it's my favourite piece of furniture now.

Not one but two people have given my 4 year old DD sand picture kits. You peel the impossibly small stickers off the overly cute sexualised picture of a little girl, scatter one of 20 colours of glittery sand over it, shake off the excess all over the floor then throw straight in the bin display proudly. One was from my best friend. FFS.