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erm WHY OH WHY OH WHY do workign mums think htat

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cod · 21/02/2006 14:19

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foxinsocks · 21/02/2006 14:39

I think those who write crafty books should be round up and publicy humiliated

None of their pictures EVER look like the real thing and they always have endless supplies of things like pipe cleaners and odd coloured card

tortoiseshell · 21/02/2006 14:40

Ha. Yesterday we did playdoh, jigsaws, colouring. Today have done playdoh, zoo, making a picture out of sticking tissue paper on more tissue paper.

I am such a good mum.

(But am actually feeling a bit guilty that dd LOVES doing this, and I never do it with her....)

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cod · 21/02/2006 14:41

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Cappucino · 21/02/2006 14:41

at least with fairies the colours are nice... even if they do end up all over the floor.

this is all hypothetical anyway since the last time I really attempted a craft activity was so long ago.... I think I'm developing a phobia

TinyGang · 21/02/2006 14:41

That Art Attack programme has a lot to answer for.

Cappucino · 21/02/2006 14:42

and the problem with papier mache is by the time it's dried they've no interest in painting it, so we end up with a whole load of grey creations. A grey newspaper 'surf bangle'. A grey photoframe. A grey pencil pot.

Blandmum · 21/02/2006 14:42

I am totaly inept

DD is worryingly , utterly 'ept'. The things she makes realy do look like the picture of the box.

I am trying to beat it out of her.

Oh and we are polishing rocks atm.....does that count?

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cod · 21/02/2006 14:43

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tortoiseshell · 21/02/2006 14:43

Ds likes the playdoh dinosaur things - just get a ball of playdoh then stick heads and legs in it.

harpsichordcarrier · 21/02/2006 14:43

polishing rocks
like with Mr Sheen and a duster??

ggglimpopo · 21/02/2006 14:44

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Cappucino · 21/02/2006 14:45

martianbishop go away with your perfect child... I only want to hear from mums whose kids just want to rip up the nice paper into tiny little shreds and then paint their hands and arms blue

Blandmum · 21/02/2006 14:46

Not with a duster, but with a bloody machine that I was stupid enough to get for her at xmas. Makes one hell of a noise, and take farking *days!

Marina · 21/02/2006 14:46

Obviously NOT the thread to admit to squabbling with children as to who gets to make the best Fimo models then

Blandmum · 21/02/2006 14:46

Cappachino. that would be ds you want then! Never has a moher had two such diiferent kids.

Blandmum · 21/02/2006 14:47

She is queen of fimo!

foxinsocks · 21/02/2006 14:47

what the hell is fimo?

you two are showing off now

TinyGang · 21/02/2006 14:51

Dd wanted Floam , but it looks like hell.

Flamesparrow · 21/02/2006 14:53

I used to love fimo!!! Had piles of the stuff.

Then again, I also used to love being given bronze polish stuff and a pile of dirty 1 & 2 pences... kept us amused for hours!

Marina · 21/02/2006 14:59

FIS, it is lovely modelling clay which comes in a rainbow array of colours. You can get it in blocks. It is the beluga caviar of clays (childhood memory of Das Pronto with hairy fibres in it)

Mercy · 21/02/2006 15:01

I don't mind joinng in with the basic craft type stuff - my most dreaded SAHM activity is baking with kids.

Wordsmith · 21/02/2006 15:03

Why oh why oh why do SAHMs think that working mums never do Playdoh and effin craft with their kids?

Cappucino · 21/02/2006 15:04

BAKING! Christ. Does anyone else's child insist on greedily eating big mouthfuls of flour? I can understand wanting to lick the bowl but flour, ffs, she'll trough anything. I can't get anything baked for her sticking her mitts into it and trying to scoop it into her mouth. I bet she'd eat sawdust if I told her it was part of the recipe.

Marina · 21/02/2006 15:05

Like cooking with them too had dd heckling me to add the darlick to the dinner last night. She sits on the counter next to me and "halps".

Marina · 21/02/2006 15:06

But we don't do baking