Gettin' My Craft On

Last summer when we drove to Sicamous there was a rock slide that covered the highway the morning we left. We only found out about it when we got to the closed section which meant we had to turn around and use secondary highways to get around the rock slide, along with the millions (sure felt like it anyways!) of other people headed to BC. So a normally six hour car trip to Sicamous turned into a 13 hour car trip to Golden (where we spent the night) and another 2 hour car ride to Sicamous the next day.

My boys are pretty good travelers but 13 hours certainly was a stretch. This year I wanted to be a little more prepared. I saw this activity on Pinterest and decided to give it a try.

Paint strips from the hardware store and clothes pins from the dollar store

Cut the paint strips in half the long ways so the names are cut off. Then cut small squares out of the strip you cut off and glue the small squares to the ends of the clothes pins.

Look at all the pretty colours!

We didn't end up using it on the way there. But Lemon Boy enjoyed it when we got to Sicamous. Fun, easy and super cheap (paint strips are free, clothes pins were $1.50 for 60).

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