it's wild in here

i had a busy day with work today and i wanted to give the kids a little focused attention.  my spark of inspiration was to make animal masks.  mason said a giraffe (or his version of saying giraffe) and then madelyn wanted to have a giraffe too.  but when she started to use zig-zag scissors to cut the edges of her plate, i suggested a lion instead.  and with no real inspiration of my own (other than two wild kids), i made a monkey.

i had to send madelyn hunting for the zoo book from their room so that i could have some direction for cutting out the shapes.  i could not get either of them really interested in using crayons to decorate their masks, but they were more than willing to break out the glue sticks.

the masks were a hit and it helped pass the time until daddy came home for dinner.  here they are modeling their creations.  love.