American Girl Craft Sale Kit
... anyway. We went to the used bookstore after their dentist appointments on Wednesday. The bookstore is usually safe because it's nothing but books.... usually. But on occasion, in the children's section, there will be kits. Clara zeroed in on this one. I tried talking her out of it, I really did, but she insisted, even using her own money to buy it... sigh.
They schemed all Wednesday afternoon. They had it all planned out. They were coming up with craft ideas, customer service procedures ("we'll be sure to say 'can we help you' when they come into the store and 'thank you' when they buy something) and some gimmicks to bring in business (Alex was going to do magic tricks). I pushed it out as long as I could because my friend and her daughters were coming over yesterday for a playdate. They had a great time and didn't want their friends to leave BUT as soon as they did the dreaded kit came out.
Last night they were busy with business set-up. They made their business cards (The Alex and Clara Co.). Then they started on the merchandise. Clara decided to write story scrolls and priced them at the bargain price of $3.65 each! Who wouldn't want to pay nearly $4 for a colored piece of paper covered in crayon drawings by a 6 year old?? They'll be lining up down the block!
Here are my little crafting elves, busy in their workshop this morning...
Alex even has his toolbox out...
Oooooohhhh..... a door hanger...
creative chaos...
a goldfish in a bowl and it's "NEW"....
pipe cleaner candy canes...
bead, jewels and naked dolls....
They've been busy crafting away. They've even been making origami Fortune Cookies from Activity TV from On Demand (comcast cable).Sadly, for me, they've decided that they have plenty of crafts and are ready to open their store. They want to set up on our front little patch of grass and they would like to do it now. I did manage to put them off by telling them that our folding table is in the storage locker and we'd have to wait until Jeff gets home to get it out.
This should be interesting!
Happy Friday!
This just makes me smile. Thanks for the day brightener! :)
ReplyDeleteThat's funny because my kids have been hounding me all week to have a lemonade stand. I told them maybe Saturday because there would be more people out and about (hoping they'd forget) but they reminded me today that tomorrow is Saturday and I said they could sell lemonade tomorrow. Ugh. I'm curious to see how the craft sale goes, that's a new one.
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