Captain America shields

Adam has been wanting a Captain America shield the past few weeks. We still have lots of thick cardboard from the stable building project, so on Monday I got the idea to try and make a shield out of cardboard for Adam. This started out as a project I was doing with the kids…but soon I realized it was too hard to cut the thick cardboard with a knife or scissors, so we needed Alex’s help. When Alex got home he mostly took over the project, but I am glad he did because the shields turned out great, and I was getting a bit frustrated with the project by then anyways.

Amazingly Alex had silver, sparkly blue, red, and white paint left over from other things. Plus the shiny clear top coat to cover it all.  I was just going to use the kids’ red and blue tempera paints on a white poster board background, glued to the cardboard – but clearly this project got kicked up to a much more “polished” level by Daddy. We could have used these for Christmas presents if we had kept them a secret, but that’s okay. I didn’t plan ahead enough for that idea. I love how they turned out and so do the boys! Thank you Daddy :) Adam hardly ever put his shield down yesterday!

And Tyler has a little shield made from a paper plate too! I made this one all by myself, thank you very much - impressive I know ;)

In other news, here’s what the boys were doing this afternoon:

Happy day before Christmas Eve!