It started sometime on Monday, this obsession with paper snowflakes. I'm not even sure really how. But when I came home from errands, the babysitter and the kiddos were up to their eyeballs in paper snippies, finished snowflakes, and smiles. Even after she left, we continued to make snowflakes: I was in charge of squaring the colored construction paper and then folding/cutting it into a triangle/square/circle and then they would make little snips in the paper, open them up, and tape them on the back window.
Then Tuesday at school they must have asked to make more snowflakes and came home with a whole new pile of white ones, plus two marble-painted evergreens, which were all added to our back deck door in a winter wonderland scene. Then I pulled out the square origami paper and they went to town cutting more snowflakes. I even contributed a few lines of paper dolls. The cats loved it, as they chased bits of paper all over the kitchen.
There must have been some magic in those snowflakes that we made--we're supposed to get 1-3" snow!
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