pre-school

It's been such a busy summer for us that time flew by and it suddenly hit me that school is about to begin. This year Little One goes to kg, so before that happened we needed to have a "grandma day" totally to ourselves. We went to the library and got books and later that day read all ten of them. One of the books we read right in the car and it was about a little girl who was getting a coat made and visited her grandfather's tailor shop with shelves lined with bolts of fabric. That was a perfect intro to our next stop: a fabric shop. She may not have been in one before because her eyes opened wide with delight at all the beautiful colors and variety of fabric, the buttons, and everything else. We were going to make a wreath so her job was to choose three colors of cloth to use.

Since "Little One's" new favorite color is purple we learned how many shades of purple there are. She is quite assured in her decision making process and I thought she made very good choices in three complimentary pieces of fabric.

Turns out the wreath was a bit hard for her, so while I worked on it she happily sat by my side and played with little people and other imaginative things. The wreath reminds me so much of ones I made years ago. With those projects I pinked the fabric rather than tearing it, and I used a wire coat hanger shaped into a circle rather than a cardboard wreath (wrapped in duck tape). The new wreath looks nice on her bedroom door!

We were both tired by the time I drove her home that evening, but I'm guessing I was more tired than she was! But what a good, fun day we had. And I just can't believe she is starting Kg.