Best Christmas Ever: Homemade Gifts From School
This is for those of you sick of hearing about how cool people's Christmases were.
For those who had a real craptastic Christmas (not me! heh!) like I can claim from my childhood, this just hits the spot:
Happy New Year, my friends. I have to go on record that I love handmade things from my kids, but sometimes teachers cheap out or get lazy. Here's a hint, anything with macaroni , salt dough, or recycled CDs just sucks.
PB made this for Christmas this year:
Isn't it cool? I love it and it's a little known fact I have a maple leaf and snowflake obsession. Love them. So this gorgeous,hand- glazed ceramic leaf where my keys will now reside? Looooove it! Her teacher? She rocked it. She just did.
As opposed to this abomination from Li'l Man's teacher last year:
I mean, what the fack?
No amount of gold lacquer will make me want to put golden macaroni ornament on my tricked ou Christmas tree.
And this coming from Eldest's school in California:
This laziness? Carboard is sure to get mis-shapen over the years, bottle cleaner, and wire?
This is why we have to have a kid's tree to put all toilet paper ornaments, dog biscuit reindeer, yarn god's head ornaments, faded construction paper blobs of nothings, painted over netflix cds and glued on paper snowflakes.
This was crap and I feel I'm entitled to critique because I art docent at our school. You can come up with some very cool things to make. It takes very minimal imagination and sometimes just a quick google search for great ideas.
So enough already.
No turd colored salt dough ornaments, puh-lease:
Take a clue from PB's teacher. We love homemade. We love personalized. We don't love crap, especially when we then have to reconcile the guilt of hiding said ornament so it doesn't go on one's specially themed formal tree with one's child's memory of said ornament's existence.
Or worse in the Old & Tired Christmas crate I try to hide from the kids every year:
Fack! Get it together, people!
Now these snowflake trivets made by PB & Eldest in 4th grade below? These are great:
And finally! Finally! For you evil incarnate mother-in-laws out there:
Don't assuage your guilt by fobbing off all your precious baby's (now my 34 year old husband) handmade, faded construction paper, Popsicle sticks, and aluminum foil ornaments on your daughter-in-law.
Gifting us this salt dough, tempura painted angel made by my husband when he was six is just not cool:
Weeee!
Woman, I have my own guilt to deal with without scheming to break these ornaments when CG isn't looking, m'kay?
****Update:****
So CG took umbrage with this post. He failed to see my point that I will think anything my kids make is special as evidenced by the crates of their scribbles when they were two. My point was some teachers seek out ugly monstrosities as "gifts," knowing parents will have to love it. CG says I'm all "wrong-ity." Heh. (raised eyebrow) How is that news?!
PB made this for Christmas this year:
Isn't it cool? I love it and it's a little known fact I have a maple leaf and snowflake obsession. Love them. So this gorgeous,hand- glazed ceramic leaf where my keys will now reside? Looooove it! Her teacher? She rocked it. She just did.
As opposed to this abomination from Li'l Man's teacher last year:
I mean, what the fack?
No amount of gold lacquer will make me want to put golden macaroni ornament on my tricked ou Christmas tree.
And this coming from Eldest's school in California:
This laziness? Carboard is sure to get mis-shapen over the years, bottle cleaner, and wire?
This is why we have to have a kid's tree to put all toilet paper ornaments, dog biscuit reindeer, yarn god's head ornaments, faded construction paper blobs of nothings, painted over netflix cds and glued on paper snowflakes.
This was crap and I feel I'm entitled to critique because I art docent at our school. You can come up with some very cool things to make. It takes very minimal imagination and sometimes just a quick google search for great ideas.
So enough already.
No turd colored salt dough ornaments, puh-lease:
Take a clue from PB's teacher. We love homemade. We love personalized. We don't love crap, especially when we then have to reconcile the guilt of hiding said ornament so it doesn't go on one's specially themed formal tree with one's child's memory of said ornament's existence.
Or worse in the Old & Tired Christmas crate I try to hide from the kids every year:
Fack! Get it together, people!
Now these snowflake trivets made by PB & Eldest in 4th grade below? These are great:
And finally! Finally! For you evil incarnate mother-in-laws out there:
Don't assuage your guilt by fobbing off all your precious baby's (now my 34 year old husband) handmade, faded construction paper, Popsicle sticks, and aluminum foil ornaments on your daughter-in-law.
Gifting us this salt dough, tempura painted angel made by my husband when he was six is just not cool:
Weeee!
Woman, I have my own guilt to deal with without scheming to break these ornaments when CG isn't looking, m'kay?
****Update:****
So CG took umbrage with this post. He failed to see my point that I will think anything my kids make is special as evidenced by the crates of their scribbles when they were two. My point was some teachers seek out ugly monstrosities as "gifts," knowing parents will have to love it. CG says I'm all "wrong-ity." Heh. (raised eyebrow) How is that news?!
4 comments:
That video!?!?
That kid is going to need some serious therapy.
Can do you one better, my OWN mom pawned off the stuff that I made, back to me. She thought the kids would enjoy seeing the stuff I made hanging next to theirs.
Thanks mom. Thanks.
(off to check out your helpful link concerning the MIL spam!)
LOL>..I totally agree..I hate the ones made of tin...that cut you and never look good after coming out of the box...
NEXT year the kids tree goes up...with the cartoon ornaments and the school ones...I have yet to be thrilled or impressed with any of the "gifts" that come home. But my kids will never know that!
Your kids will be fine.
My mother loathed our fine artwork while our father cherished every piece. In fact, my Dad has finally decided to sell the house I grew up in 8 years after my mom passed and he is trying to pawn off all of my "art" to me. No thank you.
As a mother myself, I side with my mom...only very items are worthy of the storage space.
We stayed home this year for the first time we've been together, so we finally got to unearth all of our childhood ornaments and put them on our own tree. Well, all of the wife's childhood ornaments because mine are still at my mom's house. We found some real lovely handmade pieces, including a painted angel that's kinda similar to the one in your post except that it's misshapen in a grotesquely buxom way. Some pretty entertaining finds, but there was a bit of serious culling after the tree came down.
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