Treasure Chests

Lily loves the new show on Disney Junior called "Jake and the Neverland Pirates."  It's a pretty cute little show.  She likes to pretend that she is searching for the gold doublooms like Jake and then keeping them away from Captain Hook.  She usually take the role of Izzy (Jake's female sidekick), and assigns Mia the role of either Jake or Captain Hook.  Here's a picture she drew recently; it says "Jake Neverland Pirates" across the top, and she says the four people are Captain Hook and his crew hiding in a forest as they look for Jake and the doublooms.

 Because of her love of this show, Lily really wanted to make her own treasure chest keep her doublooms (otherwise known as any trinket she can find).  Luckily, Bama is amazingly creative and can keep up with her!  She took the girls to Michaels for a little field trip.  They found adorable little chests to paint, and each girl picked out paint for themselves; not too surprising, Lily picked pink and Mia picked bright blue.  We spread out some newspapers on the table, put on their aprons and started painting.

 They both enjoyed swirling the paint around inside the bowl.

Thankfully Mia received a little help from Bama.

Concentrating so hard to make everything just right.

 The paint dried overnight, and the next morning each girl got to stick two wood pieces on that they picked out.  Lily was thrilled with her finished product!  She has enjoyed it for days now; she puts all sorts of little things in it: her jewelry, stickers, little figures, hairbands, etc.  She loves it!