summer 09

I hereby christen this summer "The Summer of Being Nagged and Broke."  Possible runner-ups include The Summer of Being Unlucky in Romantic Endeavors and The Summer of Long Daytime Naps.

I bit the bullet this week and decided to help out in my church's VBS program.  I'm working in Preschool Crafts section with Cindy, the lady who also teaches the college group Bible study on Sundays. She's pretty cool, as evidenced by today when she brought cinnamon oatmeal cookies and Dr Pepper. Woo.

Preschoolers brains...are not inclined toward craft activities. Even the concept of stickers seem to elude them. Projects including stickers usually end in the beginning material being decorated with Leaning-Tower-of-Pisa-esque piles of one sticker on top of another and another, ad nauseum.  Paste, too, is a challenge. Today the table I was on had a project with a silhouette of a sheep which they could cover in paste and then stick cotton balls to, simulating wool.  The most common problem seemed to be that they didn't press down hard enough on the paste to leave a usable amount on the paper. How hard is this to understand?

"Teacher! It's not working!"

No, you're just not doing it right.

Gah.