So what to do with the kiddies? We had been talking about our upcoming treasure hunt and the kids were very excited. And then one of the boys took a stop sign out of his backpack and said that his teacher said to hang it on a room that was clean for Pesach. Brilliant. Except that we would need at least ten stop signs, one wasn't going to cut it. So we made stop signs.
What you will need:
oaktag
markers
crayons
scissors
My two year old scribbled hers, but that is to be expected. My four year old used every single marker and crayon and wrote the word "stop" over and over in small letters inside his octagon. He only made one sign because he was so painstakingly deliberate with his. My five year old, on the other hand, zoomed through his - he made several of them, and all of his had to look like real stop signs. He would only use a red marker or crayon and had to be persuaded to use another color to write the word "stop" because using a white crayon to write it like on a real stop sign would not work on a white oaktag. Oh, the interesting minds of children. Just to live inside their heads for a day...
So yeah, we colored, we cut and we were done. And today, as we cleaned, we hung signs. We didn't get to hang as many as I hoped today, but we made progress and there is no more eating outside of the kitchen until next Monday, when Pesach starts.