There’s nothing my girls love more than gluing. It’s the one activity that is guaranteed to keep them busy for the longest, and I love to watch their intense concentration when they’re working on a project. I’ve shared before that my secret to success when it comes to glue is pouring the glue into a small bowl (individual yogurt/applesauce containers work great for this!) and giving them a paint brush to “paint with glue“. Oh, they still get messy (but thankfully, Elmers – which can also be used to stick bows in baby girls’ hair, by the way – washes right off), but they have more control over the glue this way.

I decided to try an abstract project of sorts with these tissue paper flower (as compared to our original version). To start, I drew an outline of a flower on a piece of construction paper and pulled out a variety of different colors tissue paper squares (my all-time favorite craft supply).

Pumpkin Doodle impressed me with her commentary: “Red is for roses. And purple for violets. How about yellow for daisies. Oh! And pink for poppyseeds.” Apparently the last one came from Starfall, where she insists on playing the big kid games even though she can’t read the instructions.

Anyway, back to the tissue paper flowers, I didn’t give the girls any directions and let them get to work creating their flowers. In hindsight, I should have given them green for the stems, but I think Pumpkin Doodle did a great job working with what she had:

While it’s mostly about the process and not the final product for both of them, it’s only about the process for Monkey Doodle. She didn’t understand the concept, which I knew she wouldn’t, but she wants to be like her big sister, so I just prepare the projects the same way for both of them. And hey, this is abstract art anyway!