My Dad Rocks

Grace and I found a cute craft idea for Father's Day in my Family Fun magazine. The idea was to put three rocks in a row and paint them to look like a dad. The top rock would be the head with yarn glued on for the hair and googly eyes. The middle rock would be painted to look like a shirt and then we would write with a Sharpie "My Dad Rocks". Get it? Rocks? Anyway, the bottom rock would be painted to look like a pair of pants. This was going to be their Father's Day (or as Lyla calls it, Dad's Day) present for Eric. We even went on an adventure to the river to gather rocks. We came back with an entire bucket full of rocks. I tried to explain that in order to actually make this craft it would require a few different steps. We would have to paint some, then let it dry before glueing things to it or writing on it or painting more things on it. They said OK but when they finished painting their 3 rocks each in less than 10 minutes they didn't want to stop. This meant that the craft idea went out the window. I suspected that this might happen though. They're not too good at multiple step projects yet. They ended up just painting all over most of the rocks in one sitting. Oh well, it was a cute idea.