Mental Block

Next week, the week before Easter weekend will be Stella’s final week for Term 1. Time really flies! The Supergirl has been in school for nearly a term. I have been searching my head for activity ideas with an Easter theme to do with the girls next week. It is hard to plan for two children who are at different stages of development. It has to be something that is not too easy for Stella or she might find it boring. At the same time, the activity must be easy enough for Bree to participate in at least part of it. I normally have tonnes of ideas but this mental block just won’t shift and it is hindering me from planning ahead. I wonder if they will enjoy making hats. Everyone in my group made hats for the Easter Parade when I was at Kindergarten. My mum had to help adjust the paper bag opening so my hat won’t fall through and cover my eyes. LOL.

The Easter weekend marks the start of Stella’s first school holidays. The family will be going to the country for the weekend and Stella won’t be back until the following Thursday. We have already discussed what she would like to do for the school holidays. She told me that she wanted to cook because we haven’t been doing much of that since she started school. We have even proceeded to picking out some things we want to make and the mother and daughter had already bought some of the required ingredients. Stella even proposed to let Bree do some of the cooking as well. LOL

Bree and her parents will be away for Easter as well but they will be back earlier. I will be back at work on the Tuesday, looking after Bree only until Thursday when Stella joins us again.

I think I will go surf the net to see what other Easter theme craft ideas are out there. There must be something that is simple enough for a toddler to do and yet challenging for a preppy. They have to make something similar because I think Bree’s parents weren’t very happy when Stella made some bangles using fluffy pipe-cleaners the other day. I think they feel that Bree was left out but that wasn’t the case. I just didn’t think the little toddler was developmentally ready to make the bangles and I didn’t want her to accidentally poke her eyes out with the pipe-cleaners either. Bree spent the time drawing. She absolutely loves to scribble with crayons these days.