Bird House

Great Aunt Carol sent these really cool cardboard birdhouses to Emmet and Silas. She was kind enough to send one for each of them, but I was only patient enough at the time to put together one of them. Perhaps in a few weeks time when we need another project the second one will go together and be decorated. Or maybe we'll inadvertently save it for next year.
Anyway, it did pop together fairly easily. Although Silas definitely couldn't' have done it by himself. He was able to thread the ribbon around it and to hang it, as pictured to the left.

Of course painting it was the more exciting part. I was just talking to my Mom saying Cousin Ellis had his hands traced to make peacocks and she had drawn butterflies on his birdhouse. And then she asked me how we had decorated our house.
Well, Grandma Lise, let's just say our artistic standards are a little less refined around here.

We were pretty thrilled that the paint stayed off the clothes, floor, walls, etc. and that the birdhouse is not one gigantic brownish black smear.

Silas was actually quite careful to cover all the white on the birdhouse, and was describing what he was painting and why the birds would like to live in a house covered with boats, rockets, acorns, asian beetles, leaves, and worms.

Emmet practiced his finger painting so he'll be ready to decorate the next bird house. Thanks again for the thoughtful gift. It was a lot of fun. And I hope there will be another dispatch here when we have a family of nuthatches or wrens living in the Kaleidoscope Shack.