Sunday, December 6, 2015

This instruction manual puts IKEA's to shame

Yesterday, the kids and I attended an Elves Workshop at the Waldorf School of Orange County in Costa Mesa.  There were lots of fun hands-on activities for the chilrdren, and one in particular merits a mention here.  In one workshop, kids had the option to:

a) Build a crystal snow globe - Elin picked this (phew!), or;
b) I was desperately hoping to avoid this:  Build a reindeer out of a towel and some accessories - Johanna picked this.  I tried convincing her to pick option a, to no avail.

Johanna and I before we gave up on following the undecipherable instructions below.  Judge for yourself:


And the finished product after massive help from a 10-13 year old volunteer Waldorf helper: