Success!

Snack time begins...

I was wondering if these junior knives would ever get used...

They enjoyed eating as they went, and didn't prefer the finished product to the individual ingredients.

Took a little coaxing to get them seated at the table. Next time we will have to make our snack at our seats so there is no transition.

After cleaning the table we moved on to craft. 

We sprinkled these goodies on contact paper. The aim is to sandwich the glitter and confetti between two pieces of contact paper to make sun-catchers.

This endeavor was abandoned before completion. That's cool. I'm glad it will be a multiple day project. I think it's good to show them how several days worth of little tasks can be strung together to create something worthwhile. Plus, that is less crafts that I have to come up with. 

So we moved on to audio books. Normy was into it... Georgia was not.

However, she enjoyed stacking our recycled crayons and looking at other books by herself.

It was a perfect evening. No fights (big ones), no screen time, dinner was met with rave reviews, and there was a general sense of peace and harmony amongst the Smoochys. Amazing. Now I just have to keep it up.